Phase One - Discovery, Planning and Resource Gathering
Design and development of your site starts with you and your business. Before we assume to have an off-the-shelf solution or believe we know what you need, we find it immensely helpful to spend the time getting at a real understanding of your goals.
When we have a clear understanding of your goals we will work with you to come to the best potential solution given your budget and time line.
The discovery phase may include competitive analysis of others in your market, user research for understanding the expectations of your target users and setting goals for the final product.
Before we do any design or coding it is likely we will work together with you on paper with pen, pencil and crayon. This is much less formal and rigid than designing on the computer and allows for very simple prototyping of design ideas.
At the end of the Discovery and Planning phase we will have a site map plan, a rough sketch of page types, a database schema (if needed), a plan for site content and an understanding of the goals for your new site.
Phase Two - Design and Code
Taking the sketches from Discovery we will create a mock-up in Photoshop to act as the design template for the site. Once approved we will begin coding the templates and working to deliver the framework for housing the content.
During this phase your new website will be hosted on our development server and you will have access to check in on the evolution of your site.
You will also be given a client log in to VT Web Properties where you can keep track of the project development, submit bug reports and review all your project documents.
We code using a number of languages and technologies including PHP, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX and Flash. We work to provide you simple administrative interfaces to manage your website allowing you to create new pages on your site.
Phase Three - Testing and Launch
Throughout the design and coding of your site we test to make sure your site looks right in all the major web browsers and that everything works as expected.
When everything is ready to go we then copy your site onto a live server and into the wild. Our service doesn't stop there, however.
We provide full-featured carbon-neutral hosting, web analytics to track your website traffic and other ongoing services to assure the continued growth of your site.