Web site Design

I create my custom web site designs with a clean and clear approach at your specific direction. I always discuss web design at length with my clients to ensure that your final web presence reflects the design that you have in mind and compliments your existing presence in the business world. Logos, colors, pictures and fonts should match your current marketing campaigns unless you have decided on a different course. With my background in graphics design, web programming and business management I can work with you to accomplish your goals of return on the investment in your Internet presence to make sure that your telephone rings and sales are made.

Furthermore I understand that I am being tasked to create a new revenue stream or to enhance the results of your existing web site with full knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities of that task. Most web designers have no business management experience and cannot fully grasp the importance of this issue to your bottom line. As the former manager of a 15 million dollar company, I fully understand the importance of the investment you are making in your web site and the results you expect from that investment of both your time and money. If your current web site is not performing the way that you feel it should please call me at 303-231-9209 anytime for a free consultation and review of your web site and the role it is playing in your Internet and overall marketing campaigns. If this is the first time your are having a web site designed for your company and you are not quite sure where to begin, read the New web site Design Information below to learn about the first three steps in getting your web site project started.

Granite Direct, Denver, Colorado

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New web site Design Information

1. R.F.I. - Request For Information

A Google search for a Web Designer in Denver or something related is probably how you got to this web site. A search of the web designers in your area will provide you with a pretty good selection of web designers from which you may contact to request some basic information. Email or fax a simple Word document form that asks for contact information, a description of the web designers specialties, how long they have been in business, and references. Not all of the web designers you contact will return the form and thereby eliminate the waste of your time in trying to deal with them any further.

2. Specifications

While you are waiting for the web designers you have initially contacted to get back to you, it is time for you to start putting together the list of all the things you know your new web site will need to do to accomplish your business goals. I do not recommend attempting to do this task alone, the more people around you that you can involve the better. Employees, colleagues, your attorney and even your family can provide ideas and insights that you may not have considered. You will also find it very helpful to have a budget for your web site in mind, you may not be able to get everything you want for the budget that you have right now but you can always add to your web site later as finances allow. Any good web design firm will be there for you down the road when you need them.

3. R.F.P. - Request For Proposal

Now that you have a short list of web designs that you feel comfortable with and you have had the chance to sit down and put together the list of things that you know your web site will need to do, you can summarize this information into a document and send it to those web designers. It should be clear, concise, and complete. Nothing will make you as unhappy as unexpected expenses from the little details that you forgot to include in the R.F.P. but then ask to be done later, and yes you will billed for them additionally as part of your contract by any web designer.

4. Follow Up

Ok... four steps because keeping tabs of your project's progress is just as important as the first three steps. Chances are if you haven't done so already, it will take you a couple of weeks or perhaps even longer to get all of your information together for your web designer. Once you do get your information to them so they may begin work on your web design project, ask how long it will be until you will see the "initial web design". If it took you a couple of weeks to get your information together then it will obviously take your web designer some time to build it. Once your initial web design project is posted to a location that you can see, you should insist on a daily update of your project's progress as you do not want to assume that everything is going along fine only to discover later that next to nothing has been done. This final step will ensure that your web design project is proceeding on schedule and even more importantly, it involves you in the design process as you will be checking daily and making some adjustments to your design concept and content as you look at it. Do not be surprised once you see your web site that you have some new ideas for things you did not think of before. Your web designer will be happy to include these items for a small additional cost and it's much faster, easier and cheaper to make those changes during the design phase than to do it later.