At first thought developing a website may seem complicated and hard. However appropriate thought and attention to detail can reduce the stress and complexity that may initially seem to exist on the horizon of your perspective of the web design perspective. The process for completing the design of a site is basically teasing requirements for the site and tailoring the site to those requirements through using an iterative methodology of concurrent engineering web site.
METHODOLOGY 1. Defining the web site requirements by assessing the client's predicament (objective, resources, personnel, documentation, and constraints). 2. Diagramming a model that depicts the functional requirements and the layout of text and graphics. 3. Iteratively code, evaluating, and evolve the requirements and the model until customer expectations are fulfilled.
QUESTIONNAIRE About You: 1. What's the name of your company and intended website? 2. Describe your Company in terms of character, and presentation. 3. Describe the Concept/Product/Service your site will provide. Who are the main contacts for this project and what are their roles? 4. Who has permission to give final approval? Do you have a deadline? If so, is there a reason? (eg. Tradeshow/product launch) 5. Your budget dictates how much time we can devote to your website. What are you looking to spend to achieve your vision? (eg, $3-5k, $5-10k, $10k+, $20k+)
About your Project: 1. Give your main reasons for commissioning a new site In order of importance (most important first) what are the business objectives for your site (eg, improving sales rate, increase customer satisfaction, reduce time searching). 2. How do you plan to measure success on your website? (eg. more leads, increase in sales) 3. What aspects of your current site work well and why are they successful? 4. What's not so great and why do you think that is?
Your Audience: 1. Who's coming to your website? 2. Describe the demographics as best as possible. 3. How do you think your audience perceives your company and what you offer, and if that's out of line with how you want to be perceived, what needs to change? 4. What do you imagine people using your site for? What will they want to do there? 5. Why will people choose your site (or company) over others?
Project Details: 1. Outline any ideas for features you have for your site. How do these features support your business goals, and the goals of the user? 2. People are coming to your new site for the first time. How do you want them to feel about your company? 3. Tell us a bit about your competition. Who are the runners and riders in your field (including their website addresses)? What works for them? What doesn't? Competition aside, what website designs do you like? If you can't think of any, head here: http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/main/category/C23/ - and tell us what you like, and what you like about them 4. Aside from the features discussed above, what else do you want your site to do? 5. What is your color theme preferences? 6. What pages are needed (required) and what pages are wanted? 7. What needs to be on each page and what is wanted on each page (What content should be on the pages of the site)?