Our Web Design Services division has created an efficient four-step
process that helps us ensure your expectations are met. In overview,
the discovery phase is where we delve into your
strategy and define exactly what it is that you want. The design
phase is where you scream, “that’s it!” and leads
us to the actual development phase where your vision
begins to take shape as a tangible reality. Upon your approval of
the completed work, our delivery phase involves
making sure your new site has a smooth launch out to the Internet.
Throughout the process, there is a lot of detailing, organizing,
communicating, approving and confirming. Here is a brief description
of what to expect during each phase.
Discovery
Asking questions, we probe into your strategy and define your
vision and wish list. This collective communication between
you and our team produces documents that become a ‘blueprint’
for guiding your overall project. We then use best practices gleaned
from building numerous other sites to suggest possible enhancements
and solutions. Because each of your assigned team of programmers,
artists and coordinators is intricately involved in outlining
the specific steps of development, we are able to eliminate errors
and reduce overall costs of building your site.
Design
Next, we begin to lay the groundwork for designing both the external
and internal properties of your site. Your help in gathering resources
such as logos, collateral, materials and database data is an integral
part of this phase. While artists begin to develop your new look
and programmers begin to formulate the inner workings of functionality,
they interact with ongoing communication to unify design elements
and proactively address issues of compatibility, feasibility and
scalability. You are kept abreast of our progress via emailed
links to our development server that allows you to review our
work and provide feedback.
Development
Graphic artists start taking your content and the approved user
interface resulting from the design phase and begin building
out the ‘front-end’ components of your site. Programmers
use the approved software specification to fully develop the ‘back-end’
functionality of your application. Working closely with you, our
project coordinator manages the flow of information and materials
between all of the participants. As a result of careful planning
in discovery and design, cost and time-savings
are realized at the completion of this phase.
Delivery
Your new site has been developed, tested and is ready to be introduced
to the Internet. To ensure the delivery is smooth and reliable,
we make available to you the expert staff of our networking and
ISP division for any help or guidance you may need for provisioning
the required resources to ‘go live.’ We can also supply
ongoing site maintenance or provide training to allow administration
by your staff. As your business grows and changes, OnRamp Access
is here to help add continued value to your site with the latest
technologies in web development.
