Web Development
Get in contact with us first...
The first step would be to see how we can save you costs by looking at your requirements and determining the available budget. There are options available to save you costs and to avoid unnecessary expenses.
You can contact us directly or leave your details, and we will contact you at a convenient time.
If there are several people involved, let’s set up a zoom meeting to discuss things in more detail as a group.
Saving you money is our reputation.
What to expect?
Lead time for building a medium-size website is about ten days. Provided that all the content has been submitted.
Consultation
During the consultation, we go through the planning & design phase.
Development
During development, we build your website with all the functions included.
Optimisation
During optimisation, we load the website content and do the required optimisation.
Implementation
During implementation, we do all the testing before we launch the website.
Function Driven Design
Consultation & Planning
What is your operational requiremnts and expectations?
Developing an online business consists of various factors to consider before any development starts to avoid re-development at a later stage.
There are a few things you can prepare before the time to make the consultation stage more effective.
A formal Quotation and Service Level Agreement will provide based upon finalising all the work needed. Upon acceptance, Development will be scheduled.
Breaking it down
Everything doesn't have to be done all at once. A website can be developed in phases, provided that the initial planning is comprehensive.
Workflow
Develop the easiest and shortest route possible for people to get what they need on your website to minimise frustration.
Operational Requirements
Development & Design
Building the Functions that makes everything work.
Before we get to the look and feel of your website, we build all the functions required to make your website work. The next step will be the look and feel of your website including graphic content.
We don’t really need your involvement during this stage, although it gives you the time to get all the content together.
Function Driven Design
Optimisation & Content
Putting everything together
During this stage, your involvement becomes crucial because you know your business best. We will now add all the content provided by you and do the necessary optimisation such as on-page SEO that we agreed upon during the planning stage.
This is also the time to make the necessary adjustments.
Packaging
You can have the best product on the market but poor packaging creates an inferior perception of your product.
Customer Journey
The user experience is defined by the overall experience from the workflows and the response to the look and feel of your website.
Operational Requirements
Implementation & Testing
Testing, Testing, Testing and more Testing.
During this stage, we go live within a staging environment. It’s always a good idea to get a few people involved in testing different functions on your website for feedback.
Once the corrections have been made, it’s time to switch the site on to the public. A launch date can be set as part of a marketing campaign.
Once we are done, we will continue to monitor your website for the next 30 days to ensure everything works as planned.
Ongoing Management
Website Growth
Creating & Interacting with your audience
A website requires ongoing maintenance and management to show Google that your website is interactive and that you continuously provide new content to your visitors.
Addon Services
You can grow your website with additional services available to increase your online presence.
Rent a Website as an alternative...
Questions & Answers
Absolutely.
Always use good quality images. Good quality images are large in height and width and large in file size. Images optimized for web pages with small file sizes shouldn’t be used when editing within a graphics program. You can optimize large images and make them smaller after editing. Small images cannot be made bigger without distorting the image.
When finalising your images, make sure they are the correct size where they will be used on your website. Then optimise your images by reducing the file size for fast rendering on your page.
The general rule of thumb is that your images must be able to accommodate large computer screens 1920px by 1080px
Images that display across any page width should therefore be 1920 x 1080 pixels or larger.
Other images on a page will be sized accordingly.
Product images should be bigger than 500 pixels on their smallest axle.
Graphic Design is a very time-consuming exercise.
The first thing that takes the most time is sourcing images. It can take hours to find the right image to use and then the number of images required.
If you cannot find free images online, the next place to look is stock images that must be purchased. The last resort will then be to get a photographer involved.
Once all the images are collected, then the editing starts and it all depends on what needs to be done and how long it will take. To give you an example: Product images look way more professional when the background is removed, then a shadow gets added and the colour adjustment makes it stand out. When you then put the product images on a general background it sells itself.
Here we added a few images with different shadows to give you an idea Demo Site in Action
Another time-consuming exercise is logos, animations and custom icons for your website. Such graphics must be drawn up and take a lot of time.
When custom fonts are required then such fonts must be sourced and often be bought.
What often takes even more time is running back and forth between the designer and a client until everything is perfect.
How much will this cost? The cost is determined by the hours spent plus the purchased items or services. On average you can set a budget between R2,000 and R10,000 as a rough idea. More advanced graphics, large quantities and video production will be more expensive.
Optimising and adding the images to your website will be the last step that normally forms part of the web design process.
Try and do most of the sourcing yourself with as many visual ideas to indicate to the designer what it is that you want.
Graphic Design is complete two-way communication between the client and the designer. Remember that the designer cannot read your mind to know exactly what will look good for you. The more you give the graphic designer to work with the better.
You can search for images on Google Images
Yandex has a greater variety of high-quality images and is used by most designers. Watch our video on How to find images on Yandex
Canva also has a big variety of Free images.
You can also search for Free Stock images on Google. Many websites offer Free and Paid Stock Images.
When you send images to us use .jpg or .png
Most images such as photos and backgrounds on a website will be .jpg
Logos, Icons and any image without a background will be .png
The background of a .jpg image can be removed and then saved as a .png to be used on a website. To remove a background requires a fair contrast between the image and the background to be separated from one another.
Watch our video on How to remove an image background
If this does not work then you will need the assistance of a graphic designer to do it for you which will still require a good quality image for the job.
Watch our video on How to resize images using Canva
If this does not work then you will need the assistance of a graphic designer to do it for you which will still require a good quality image for the job.
