Our Web Design Process
How it works...
1: The quoting process
& placing an order...
Whether you’re a start-up looking for a basic website to begin trading, or you’re already deep into your business journey and looking to scale up, we can provide you with a quote for your project.
We’re proud of the format of our web design proposals. We aim for thorough and in order for us to get it right, there are a few things we’d love to know about you – our Request a Quote form does a good job at gathering the info we’ll need. Alternatively if you prefer the personal touch, you can call our friendly team for a no-obligation chat about your requirements.
Once we’ve heard a little bit about your business and brief, we’ll aim to get proposal to you as soon as possible. You can take a look at our Web Design Packages & Pricing page for a rough guide of our pricing. When you’re happy with what has been outlined in your proposal and you’d like to proceed, you can go ahead and place an order.
Our web design ordering process is quick and easy – all we require is a message or a call formally accepting the proposal. We’ll then send you our standard web design contract along with any other important documentation. We’ll also book a convenient time to get together for a full design consultation.
2: Web Design Consultation
& Planning the build...
Nobody knows your business better than you, and this is where the web design process begins. You understand how your customers think. We want to hear about it, and our job is to use that knowledge and offer ideas and expertise to create a new website that gives you the best chance of turning visitors into sales.
Our preliminary design consultation is an opportunity for you to meet our designers to chat about the project in more detail. We’ll discuss what your dream website looks like and make some notes about branding and colour schemes. We’ll look at examples together, plan out any workflows for functionality, work out a simple site structure and request any assets we may require (such as photographs, existing logo files and content).
The web design consultation is also a great opportunity for you to ask our experts any and all questions you might have about the process. That could be what things might look like, how we launch a new website, and how it all works.
Once we’re all on the same page and we’ve got all the facts we need to make a start, we’ll transcribe the notes from our meeting and send a copy of them to you for safe keeping. We’ll grant access to our cloud storage platform for the easy exchange of media and documents, and provide you with a development URL for the staging/prototype site, which you can use to keep up with progress.
3: Web Design, Prototyping
& Website Preview...
Now that we’ve got a roadmap in place to enable us to deliver your project, we can start to work on bringing the website to life. We’ll start with the theme coding, layouts, visuals and styling.
We’ll continue to research your sector and your competitors, whilst using the notes from our design consultation as a basis for the build to create the perfect landing page for your brand. Once we’ve put some designs together that you love, we’ll let you know that they’re ready to explore and ask for your feedback.
We’ll discuss any feedback on the design. If necessary, we’ll make any changes needed to the preview pages. Once everybody is happy with the website preview, we will get straight to work on building all of the remaining pages and working on the coding of any advanced features. We’ll apply cutting edge design techniques along the way, in line with our newly agreed stylesheets.
Once the website’s pages and features are all done and resembling a finished article, we’ll audit our own work. We optimise headings, content, site titles, meta descriptions and load speed for today’s SEO and let you know that it’s ready to explore in full.
4: Final Website Review,
Extensive Testing & User Training...
Once you had some time to explore your new website, we’ll ask you to compile a list of feedback, tweaks, changes or style revisions you’d like to see prior to sign off. We’ll ask you to test any online shop, membership or booking functionality from the customer’s perspective so you can understand the customer experience yourself.
We’ll work through this list of final pieces of work. Following this, we’ll move on to a series of extensive cross platform tests to ensure a perfect, cohesive visitor experience. This means the website will be tested across all browsers, devices and viewport sizes.
We’ll then arrange our final meeting for the development process. This meeting primarily will be used as an opportunity to give you a comprehensive user-admin training session. The goal is to allow you to conduct the simple day-to-day management of your new website. This can be things such as posting new blog articles, editing content, or changing images.
5: Website Completion
& Launch!
Following your final review and user training session, we will send over your completion paperwork along with any other important documentation. Then we can prepare for launch.
Launching a new website is a fairly simple process. We’ll validate a fresh SSL certificate, and deploy the development website to the remote server so it’s accessible on the final domain of your choosing.
After launch, we carry out detailed quality assurance checks to ensure the site is visible and eligible for crawling and indexing by search engines. We test everything once more to ensure all functionality and system generated emails are working, and make any final tweaks needed.
We’ll let you know when the new website is live. Once live, we’ll continue to closely monitor the progress throughout the launch and the weeks and months following to ensure everything stays fast, secure and running smoothly.
We are Frost Digital. An award winning, RAR Recommended, yet affordable Web Design Agency, based in Cambridge. Our friendly team of experts provide cost-effective website design, graphic design and digital marketing solutions for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
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Get in touch
Frost Digital
Stirling House Business Centre,
Waterbeach, Cambridge
CB25 9PB
0115 9325151
hello@frost.digital