Step 1. Planning

• Competition & Customers

Go to your competitors websites. Note what pages your competition has and doesn't have. Also notice what features their websites contain (ie: forum, ecommerce, blog, login area, widgets, etc). Think about your customers and what the purpose of your website is - what are you trying to get customers, potential or existing to do once they arrive at your page?

• Develop an outline of your website

An outline shows your main pages as well as subordinate pages that help determine possible avenues of navigation. An outline will also help decide the total number of pages needed.
Example outline for a 7 page website:

• Home
• Services
• service
• service
• Products
• Product
• About Us
• Contact Us

• Surf the web and come up with a list of websites you like

This is supposed to be fun. Go out and look at websites, and see what you like and don’t like. Also think about the things you would like to do on your website, including colors you think work particularly well for you, or your business.

• Get an estimate

Submit your website outline and ideas to me, and don’t forget to include your list of sites that you liked and I'll provide you with an estimate.

• Read our Terms of Service carefully.

Agree to Terms of Service and hire WebPlexx to do the work

Step 2. Prepare

• Pick a domain name.
• Sign up for Web Hosting Services and Register your domain name.(unless you have chosen to :Leave it to Webplexx"

• Give WebPlexx access (unless you are hosting through WebPlexx. Please Send us the username and password for either your hosting company or your website's FTP.

• Start writing content Begin writing content for each of your website's pages. This is what usually takes the longest . Remember if you have elected to “Leave this to WebPlexx”, you will need to have the basic information requested in order for us to generate content.

Step 3. Design

• Build Starts. Using all the information you have provided I will develop a website. This will be a first draft, a sort of starting point for your site. I will allow you to see it and we will communicate.

• Approval After this draft site is created, you will have the opportunity to see it and approve, or make modifications. Once it is approved we will move on to page creation and graphics integration. Next step will be content creation and addition. Keywords will be discussed at this time.

Step 4. Finalize

• Final steps…During this phase the website will be polished, tested for usability, and thoroughly inspected. At your approval the website will be launched and search engines will be informed. Other finalizations will be completed including SEO. (search engine optimization).

 
Maintenance
Now that your website is completed, it may periodically need maintenance of updates. In order for this to be done, you will need to put in a support ticket. All maintenance is billed at a per hour rate.(minimum increments of 30 min.)