These 7 steps are pretty much the web design process we follow.

STEP 1: Contact Me

Make contact by email form or phone at 647-403-2052 regarding ‘what you need’. Important to do this ‘before’ ordering, so we’re both on the same page about your project.

STEP 2: Provide Site Examples

Please provide a few example sites you might like your site to resemble for colors and possible layout (either from my portfolio or web addresses).

STEP 3: Place Your Order

Jobs are done on a ‘first come, first served’ basis, so it’s important to ‘get your order in’ soon after we’ve gone over your site so we can get your project scheduled. Choose a package you like or one we’ve already discussed, with or without options, and place your order to get things started. (For larger jobs ‘outside’ the package prices, we need to talk a bit more) Your design will be scheduled and an approximate ‘completion date’ given. This depends largely on current workload at the time of your order. It’s not an exact science, as things come up, but I do my best to stick to the time frame.

IMPORTANT: Much of getting your design completed on time depends on information that YOU will provide. I generally don’t even begin your project until I have all information and content from you, so please send all info needed as quickly as possible.

STEP 4: Provide Domain / Hosting Info

Upon ordering, an email is sent for things YOU need to do to for your web design, including:

Register a domain with GoDaddy (Best deals on domains. DON’T buy ‘any’ extras). NO HOSTING!

If you are using ‘our’ Hostgator Web Hosting, you will need to provide the login info where your domain is registered in order to set up your hosting account.

If you’re using your own hosting account, we may need your login info to to verify compatibility and set up your site. (If there’s a ‘control panel’ with your hosting, you should be fine.)

STEP 5: Email Your Content

Provide the page names you’d like (ie, ‘Home’, ‘About Us’, ‘Services’, ‘Gallery’, ‘Testimonials’, ‘Directions’, ‘Contact’, etc) Please provide content for each page (including pics and graphics if you have any).

STEP 6: Preview Your Design

I like to complete your design before showing it to you, as opposed to showing you a piece at a time. Once I begin your site, you generally won’t hear from me until I email the preview.

Once I have completed your design, I’ll send you the site address location so you can spend a few days on the site and make any minor changes that need to be made. (I say, ‘Minor changes’ because we ‘should’ be pretty well ‘in sync’ with how the design will turn out based on our communication ‘before’ ordering. However, if there are major design changes needed due to, ‘my boss doesn’t like it’, or, ‘I want to try something different’, there may be additional charges to complete your design.)

Once I’ve made any necessary updates, and you have approved the design, the site will be published LIVE to your domain.

STEP 7: It’s YOURS!

Congratulations! You now have your web site, meaning you can do pretty much anything you want with it. Update it. Change it. Move it. Copy it. Sell it. There are ‘some’ limitations, but, basically, it’s YOURS. No more ‘licenses’ to keep paying each year just to ‘rent’ your website. You will receive your site login information and a quick outline of ‘update basics’ so you can have the ability to make basic changes to your site. (If you’re hosting with us, you’ll receive your hosting login information for your control panel and ftp as well.)

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