Design Workflow

We use this to process our project plan and we present it to customers to explain all the steps needed to create their site and help them understand why the timeline is what it is (i.e. why it's so long).

Planning and Initial Design

In the Planning and Initial Design phase, we analyze your requirements and target audience, what they’d be looking for and how the website can facilitate it. In addition, we also evaluate technology and programming aspects if the design is for a dynamic website or web-based application. At this stage, we develop a navigation scheme or a site map encompassing the functional requirements of your website or web-application. Then we create initial design mockups with various layout, color scheme and alternate arrangements. top

Client Review and Refinement

During Client Review and Refinement phase, you review the design options and mockups; send us your feedback, what you like and what you want us to change etc. Based on your inputs we modify the design and send to you for further review. This process is repeated till a suitable design, layout and color scheme (collectively known as look & feel) is finalized. In most cases, a final design is arrived at 2-3 roundtrips, some may require more. top

Develop final Design and Design Signoff

Once a final look & feel is arrived at, in the Develop Final Design and Design Signoff phase, we create the final artwork, design files, Photoshop files, flash files and all other graphic design stuff and send you the snapshots for signoff. Any copyrighted photographs or other graphic stuff are to be purchased by you and supplied to our design team. top

Develop Web Graphics, HTML and Testing

Next come the Develop Web Graphics and HTML phase. In this phase, we plan out how to convert the design into HTML, do the slicing of graphic files, create optimized images and other graphic components, write the HTML, CSS style sheets, associated JavaScript or DHTML if any and complete converting the design into the final form of the web site. Our testers test each page of the website thoroughly for any bugs and report them to the developers through our bug tracking system. All development is done on our own development servers and accessible to you 24x7 via a friendly URL. You can review the progress of work up to the last minute. Once the development part is complete, we let you review it thoroughly to suggest any minor changes as a final touchup. top

Final Review and pre-launch

The final stage is to Launch the Website when we make your site live on your hosting server. You should be ready with a domain name and a hosting space to launch the site. We can help you register a domain name, and choose a suitable hosting service. You provide us the access info and we upload the files to your server, configure them as needed make it live. Our testers again test each page thoroughly from the live server to ensure everything works fine on the hosting server. top

Maintenance

The last phase, i.e. Maintenance, is optional. We do take every care that a website does not require regular maintenance to keep it up & running. Maintenance is needed only when you want to update some content, change photographs, add a couple of new pages & new information, or such other to make it more interesting. We do undertake long term maintenance for your website. You just have to drop us an email with any update, change request, or addition etc. We give special attention to any maintenance/update work on a live website. top