Launching Your Website: Your Three Steps

Step 1

You contact me by telephone or email. You tell me a bit about your business or organization, what you hope to accomplish with your website, any initial thoughts you have about the way you want the site to look and work, and any deadlines you may be facing.

Step 2

You meet with me for an extended consultation in person, ideally, or by email. Objective: We plan your site in terms of:

Technical Aspects
I explain how you can obtain your domain name, if you don't already have one, and how you can have your domain name hosted by an internet service provider. I also explain how we can design your site to make it more visible to search engines.

Functional Aspects
I help you decide what you want users of your site to understand when they visit. We determine the content of your site, and adapt existing content from your brochures or advertisements, if appropriate. We figure out what pages, in addition to the main page, you want on your site.

Design Aspects
We look at some existing websites, especially those of businesses that are comparable to yours. We seek to identify the appealing and unappealing aspects of those samples. We discuss your preferences for the graphic appearance of your website, including any existing logo or graphics that you would like to incorporate.

You evaluate the models that I create for you, and you make your final selections.

The prototypes are viewable on a private area of my hardenberghdesign.com site. You have time to review them, show them to others, and make your final decisions on look and content. I then make the final draft for the final review. After you approve the finished product, I post your new site at your own web address.