In order to speed the development process along please start filling out the following form and gathering the materials (as applicable to this project).
Company name:
Contact Person:
Phone Number:
E-mail:
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What does your company do?
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Are you a local, regional, national or international business? What areas do you want to specifically target??
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List a series of website URLs with designs or schemes that appeal to you and give reasons why.
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Choose a primary color scheme for the background, text and graphics (we recommend 2 or 3 colors for highlights for most sites)? Be mindful of visitors with poor eyesight or color blindness when choosing text, background colors and graphics. Many of the most successful sites follow a simple scheme such as this.
Primary color scheme
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Text
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Highlight Colors
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Will you be providing your own content for your website or do you need someone to custom write your website?
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Do you have any custom photography needs (still photography, product shots, stock photography, video, Will you supply all of the images required or will the developer be responsible for creating and acquiring images, graphics, etc.
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What can your business offer your visitors? What’s in it for them, how can you help them?
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Choose types of components to include (e-commerce, Java applet, back end database integration, survey forms, feedback forms, opt-in newsletter management, referral forms, etc.).
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List all major topics for your site (i.e. Products, Services, Information, Contact us, Galleries, Frequently Asked Questions etc.). Base these topics the visitor’s view a selection of information displayed on your website. Major topics will be broken into sub topics (i.e. Lawn Care (Main) , Fertilizing, Grass cutting, (Sub Topics). List a site map below,
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What problems do your prospects have that your business solves?
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Are there any special needs or components required that are not already covered?
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Do you need domain registration and/ hosting for the website?
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Will there be password protected areas for dealers, members and/or downloads? Will your site use any digital delivery systems to individually password protect each customers download?
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How often during the year do you anticipate updates to the website? What types of information will be updated? Employment opportunities, monthly specials, contests, new products, updated news all should be updated periodically. The less frequent a site will be updated, the more general a site should be.
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Who will maintain the site? If another business will do site maintenance, will they have the skills and tools to support it? Will training be required?
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What are the specific short-term goals for the website (in the first 1 to 6 months, reduce customer service workload by X%, generate X volume in sales)?
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List specific long-term goals for the website (in the first 1 to 3 years).
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If you currently have a website, how many visitors do you receive each month? What is the expectation for future traffic and is there a plan and a budget for scaling the web hosting if traffic increases beyond its capabilities?
