Website Design Process Works

If you would like us to build a website or CRM / CMS for you, below we have provided a quick overview of our general process so you can understand what to expect if you would like to work with our team:

1. Initial Meeting - No Tech Jargon!

After our initial contact, you're invited to visit our office, or we can come to you to discuss your project in more detail. Sometimes it helps if we come to you to understand your business. We can also do initial meetings via MS Teams, Zoom or similar. We love to screen-share and look at examples of websites that might already exist to break down the pros and cons of each. This helps us gain an understanding of what you might like. If you have your own designs or mock-ups, we would be happy to see them. We are bespoke website specialists, so we generally build websites from the ground up and to your exact specifications. If you have something particular in mind, do let us know! This is a good time to work out how many pages you might need on your website too.

2. Getting Started - Bringing Your Vision to Life

If you’re happy with our initial discussions and decide to move forward with DigitalFlare, we will send you an invoice for 50% of the total project cost (sometimes, we break this down into three payments for larger projects). This allows us to start working on the website and develop design concepts.

3. Content is Key - Text and Images

At this stage, our team will ask you to gather together all the information you’d like displayed on your website. If you’ve already written the text, fantastic! If you’d like a bit of help, we can assist with that, too. We will also need any images you want to use. If you don’t have any images or would like more professional ones, we can help you source them. We can recommend good stock image libraries or assist in selecting the most effective images for your site.

4. First Preview - Initial Web Design

At this point, We will not have completed the back end of the website’s admin system, but will have designed key front-end pages for you to review. Once our team are happy with the overall design, we will send you a link so you can view it. You can then give us the green light to proceed with the rest of the site, or if you have any major concerns or changes, we can address them before moving forward. If we have to revisit some areas that have already been signed off, there may be some extra charges for anything unexpected. But we will let you know before if there is liekly to be an extra charge due to extra development work.

5. Website Development

This is the hard/'fun' part for us... We work to focus on the back end of the website (the area where you will manage your content and day-to-day activities) and convert the front-end designs/concepts to responsive web pages. Once complete, we will ask you to review each page and section, providing any feedback or amendments you’d like. This could involve changes to the site's text, images, or other elements of the website.

6. Ready for Launch - It's the Big Day!

Once you’re completely satisfied, we’ll prepare for the website’s launch. Your site will be uploaded to a live server, and we’ll notify all major search engines that your site is ready to be discovered. Your final invoice will be issued at this point. We can also advise on options to help get your website seen and advertised.

7. Ongoing Support - Hosting, Email Services, Backups & Updates

If you’ve opted for our Managed Hosting Package, you’ll have full access to the admin section to edit, expand, and update your site at any time. Your website will be protected by class-leading security systems (security is very important to us!), and we’ll also perform daily backups to ensure that in the unlikely event something goes wrong, we can restore your website quickly.

If needed, we can also create training videos showing you how to edit each section of your site - simply ask if you’d like help navigating around your website.