The Website Development Process

Here's how we typically go about developing websites:

The Brief We either receive a brief from you or meet with you to develop a brief together
Bid We develop a response to the bid containing a full treatment of how we would go about meeting your requirements along with recommendations for the best approach to getting the website online as quickly as possible.
Design On being awarded the contract, we begin by developing a site design and site map with you. We then develop a series of screenshots based on the design so that you can see how each major screen type will look.
Content Either you or we develop the text and picture content for each identified screen. At this stage, we can edit content to improve it from a copywriting point of view if required.
Development We then carry out all development work. For most sites, this is the part that takes the longest. If development is going to take more than a week or two, we will upload interim versions for you to see so that you can keep an eye on progress. Communication is vital during this process and so we create an extranet to enable information to be exchanged quickly and easily.
Alpha Once development is complete, we supply it for you to comment on. You let us know about any changes you require and we implement them.
Release Candidate At this point, the site should be complete but we ask you to take one more look before the site is made live.
Release The site is made live, we then monitor it for some time to ensure it is performing as required. Any adwords campaign begins at this point. During the first few months, it's worth regularly checking that the site is achieving its objectives. The odd nudge here or there is usually all that's required to set it back on track.