A Design
Checklist
We’re
aware that launching
a new website or re-designing
and existing one can
be an intimidating
process. Jill Duffy
Designs will work with
you
one-on-one to provide you guidance, suggestions and
recommendations on how you can maximize your online
presence. It’s our goal to make building a website
a positive experience.
Your
Role (The Client)
Try
to think of yourself as the writer
and editor of a book and Jill
Duffy Designs as the publisher.
Unless you can’t
write, of course, in which case
think of us as the writer too.
Only you know the vision you
have for your website. Jill will
implement that vision based upon
the ideas you provide and her
artistic inspiration. It has
to be more complicated than that.
Well, no. It really isn’t.
Here is what we need from you,
specifically, to begin designing
the website you’ve
envisioned:
- Your
Domain Name
If you have one already great. Make sure that you
own it. Check with the company hosting your domain.
If a re-seller owns it, reclaim it -ask for it back
or find a new one. No domain name? No problem. Any
number of web hosting companies, we recommend bluehost.
Bluehost can
provide you with a domain
name and a place to host
it for a reasonable annual
fee.
- Your
Ideas
We’re certain you have some. Websites you like
and those you don’t. The websites of your competitors
and how you wish to distinguish yourself from them.
Talk to Jill about your ideas. We promise that she
will listen.
- Your
Content
Copy, Bios, information, news -in short all of the
things that make you, well, you. Along with photos
or any specific graphic, artwork or logo you want
us to incorporate. Don’t worry if you don’t
have photos, we can pick photos appropriate for your
business and artistically pair them with your website.
Don’t have a logo or brand? We can do that
for you too. See how accommodating we are?
- Done
That’s it. Seriously. Once we have your domain,
your ideas and your content we can start designing
you a custom website (and Blog, Brand, Social Networking
page) that you can be proud of. All of our deigns
are unique and not a template or form. You may find
signature elements of our designer but you will not
find that your site looks just like the site we designed
for someone else. Not even close.
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