Our website design & development process

Scope meeting

This is for us to get a ‘big picture’ view of what you need and have in mind. There are many aspects to a website that are often not considered when commissioning – afterall, most people commission a website about once in their life! But this stage will be enough for us to understand what you want for your site and a broad view of the budget and time required to build it.

This is for us to get a ‘big picture’ view of what you need and have in mind. There are many aspects to a website that are often not considered when commissioning – afterall, most people commission a website about once in their life! But this stage will be enough for us to understand what you want for your site and a broad view of the budget and time required to build it.

We’ll be able to give some indicative pricing, based on that broad understanding phase – this will help you know if it’s something within reach or not. It will be just that, indicative and subject to us undertaking a more in-depth workshop to better understand all the detail and how it might be used. Functions on websites are what take time – and therefore add to the cost.

In depth discovery workshop

Once you’re happy with the general budget required, the next stage is for us to get a clear understanding of what you want from your website in greater detail, what you want your customers to experience and to work out all the areas of the website. A sitemap with a list of the functions will then form the site specification and allow us to provide an accurate quotation. It’ll also form the part of the planning document for the designers & developers. For more complex sites, there may be a couple of these sessions.

Planning and timescale

What comes out of the discovery stage will indicate how long the project is going to take. It will have different stages to it – scoping, design, development, content inputting and testing – each stage will follow a schedule to make sure every stage is completed properly and on time. A website is most organisation’s key marketing tool so planning is often critical.