You’ll be pleased to hear that preparing for your website project is going to be much easier than you imagine.

It won’t take much time away from your work schedule and you’ll be amazed how smoothly it can progress.  While working on your website, we can have a relationship that will hopefully be very pleasant for both of us.  I hope you will ask as many questions or  let me know of any requirements you might have – in fact, the more the better.

 

Some Questions to start thinking about…design

  • Do you have any mock-ups of layouts that you want me to follow in the design?  A simple rough sketch will do just fine.
  • Do you have photos, artwork or logo graphics?  I prefer to use image editing software to enhance colours, contrast and sharpness, which will automatically be applied to every one of your photos as standard with OwenDevelopment.  This will increase the quality of the photo’s and images, so your website  graphics will look vivid and professional.
  • Do you have colours, or colour schemes that you want me to use?  If you don’t have one in mind, that’s perfectly fine.   About 70% of my clients ask me to take care of designing the whole website and I will certainly work the colours around your logo and other photos, to help you create a simple brand for the website.
  • Do you have any web design styles you have seen that you want us to follow?  You can show me web samples by providing any links you particularly like.
  • What functions would you like your website to have?
  • What Navigation Links do you have in mind, e.g. home, about us, services, etc?

 

There’s only a few steps you need to follow to begin your new website

1. Choose your domain name

Your domain name is your internet address name (www.address.com etc) that will need to be registered and reserved for your use.  I can choosethis  if you don’t already have a name yet.  Alternatively, you can visit a domain company to check availability of one you are wanting.  I can include the cost of this into your package, but most web design packages I offer include this anyway.  If you do want to check availability of a domain, I recommend GoDaddy.com for domains.

 

Hosting With OwenDevelopment

A website needs a hosting account to keep your website up on the internet. (I can assist you with this or take care of doing it for you).  See here for more info about hosting your website.

The preferred hosting company I use is MediaTemple because they use powerful servers and they are extremely reliable, helpful and secure, plus being good value. You are not required to use this hosting company, however, because of the vast amount of times I have used them, it is quicker and easier in the development time as I am already familiar with it’s full system.  I provide  fast hosting on my dedicated server for most my packages.

 

2. Gather your images and graphics

You can email larger photo files to me at my email address.

Scanning: I can scan photos if you prefer to send me hard original copies.  If I have to scan lots of photos (30+) it will take more time, so we can discuss additional time charges required.

If you would like items returned, please be sure to mark them with your name, and provide stamped, self-addressed return mailing materials.

 

3. – Send me your content

It may surprise you to learn that approximately 50% of my clients have OwenDevelopment take care of most of their text content because they don’t know what to write.   If you have personal biographies or facts that are specific and pertinent, then please be sure to provide them.   Email me your Word documents or pdf files.  When planning the design layout it is important to know how much text content there will be.   We want enough text to sell your service or products, but too much text can make your website look cluttered, so we will decide the best text which tick all our boxes.

 

PROJECT TIMELINE:

Websites can vastly differ on times due to the breadth of content a site can have.   A simple website can be done within 2-3 weeks, and much larger projects can take 2-3 months.   Once we have decided on a project and has been clearly laid out what you want your site to do and what you wish to put on it, I can then provide a maximum timeframe by which the project can be completed.