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At ItsaDesignThing.com We follow a five phase process to ensure customer satisfaction and project efficiency.

Discovery

Comprised primarily of interviews and analysis. This step is crucial in setting the direction and scope of the project. Upon completion of the discovery phase we will understand your business, your customers and your competitive environment.

Strategy

We construct the overall layout and flow from which the site will be built around. Site structure, major content sections, navigation and user flow diagrams will be presented, discussed and refined to your satisfaction. The strategy stage plays a huge role in the success of a website.

Creative Design

It’s the attractiveness of the design that defines your first impression and what captures people’s attention. We prioritize and identify the areas that stand to provide the greatest value based on your customers’ needs, wants and limitations.

Development

We transform the creative design into a search engine friendly website. Comprised of coding framework, page templates, site feature, as well as any integration with 3rd party systems.

Launch

The site goes live for everyone to see. Immediately following the launch we manually submit your site to a handfull of sites with high Page Rank. This will help kick start your link building campaign. We also make sure Google’s free analytic and webmaster tools are professionally integrated with your site.

The work doesn’t have to end there; leverage opportunities to modify content and navigation to dramatically improve your conversion rates. Collecting data on your visitors is extremely important and can be used to identify if visitors are navigating your site as expected, and what you can do to improve both visitor experience and your return on investment.

You can get a website designed for $100 or $100,000 depending on your requirements. This article will help you determine the budget that is right for your web design project.

There are many factors in determining the cost of a website. From a consumer’s point of view it makes sense why everyone aims for good design that is cheap, but they must keep in mind additional factors affect the cost of a respectable and rewarding website. Continue reading . . .

There are so many websites and blogs on the internet that it may seem impossible to get noticed. Even if your website content focuses on a narrow subject, there are usually thousands of other results that are listed in Google when people search for your specific keyword or keywords. However, there are things that you can do to help improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of your website. One of the biggest factors that determines website traffic is the amount of quality backlinks that the page has. Continue reading . . .

Standards compliant are essential for developers, business and organizations that want to create high quality websites, and not exclude people from using their products and services.

Supporting the guidelines set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) will ensure your website is built using best practices and conforms to the fundamental technical specifications of the web. Continue reading . . .

Good content not only increases your chance of an inquiry or sale, but increases your search engine ranking too!

Anyone can write content for their website, but is that content ideal for online reading? People visit websites to find specific information or to perform a task as quickly as possible. If they can’t find what they want, the way they want it, they’ll leave your site for the next search result. Continue reading . . .