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Project Process

Discover

You cannot build a site without a basic foundation. The discovery phase is the initial meeting (or group of meetings) which will help clarify and organize your expectations and goals for the project. Upon completion this phase will provide a general idea for design styles, a preliminary sitemap including basic page functionality, and a list of keywords that you would use to describe your web content.

Design

The design process is typically the primary focus in web site projects. The term "Web Design" is used loosely around the web community but is referred to in this site as "look and feel". There are two major aspects to web design: Style and Complexity.

Carve

How does a design go from Photoshop to web site? It has to be cut up into a grid-like images in order to be reassembled in HTML table cells.

Develop

Once the images have been "carved" from the design the template, navigation, empty shell, and custom programming are created using code.

Content

In this phase all of your web content is integrated into the design. For each page in the navigation you will have content which will require different levels of maintenance. Contact information, for example, will rarely need to be modified whereas upcoming events may change daily. High levels of maintenance may warrant special tools for updating the content.

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