Our Process

Phase One: Information Gathering

This first step is actually the most important one, as it involves a solid understanding of your company, what your business goals are, and how the web can be utilized to help you achieve those goals.

It is important that we start off by asking a lot of questions to help us understand your business and your needs in a web application.

Certain things to consider are:

• Purpose
  What is the purpose of the web application?
• Goals
  What do you hope to accomplish by building this web application? Two of the more common goals are either to make a complicated process easier or take a manual process and automate it.

Phase Three: Design

Drawing from the information gathered up to this point, it’s time to determine the look and feel of your web application.

In the design phase we will create a functional prototype for your application. This is typically a "click-through" version of what the final design will look like. Often times you will be sent an email with access to a secure area of your application. This also allows you to view our work in progress. The most important reason for this is that it gives you the opportunity to express your likes and dislikes on the application design before we begin any coding.

In this phase, communication between both you and the designer is crucial to ensure that the final web application will match your needs and taste. It is important that you work closely with your designer, exchanging ideas, until you arrive at the final design for your application.

Then development can begin…

Phase Five: Testing and Delivery

At this point, your web designer will attend to the final details and test your web application. We will test things such as the complete functionality of forms or other scripts, as well last testing for compatibility issues (viewing differences between different web browsers), ensuring that your web site is optimized to be viewed properly in the most recent browser versions.

A good web designer is one who is well versed in current standards for web site design and development. The basic technologies currently used are HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). As part of testing, your designer will check to be sure that all of the code written for your web site validates. Valid code means that your site meets the current web development standards – this is helpful when checking for issues such as cross-browser compatibility as mentioned above.

Once you give your web designer final approval, it is time to deliver the application to your users. An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program is used to upload the web site files to your server. We can also host your web application if you would like. We will then setup the initial user accounts. Once these accounts have been setup, and your web site uploaded to the server, the site will be put through one last run-through. This is just precautionary, to confirm that all files have been uploaded correctly, and that the application continues to be fully functional.

This marks the official launch of your application, as it is now viewable to your users.