What Happens During a Website Process?
Your website is only as strong as it’s written.
One major component that sets a website apart is technical writing. Websites aren’t like a paper, they require a writer that understands web development and SEO in order to optimize the content to be functional for search engines. The more compliant the writting, the more your site ranks.
Page Content
Website content is offered as part of the web creation process because most businesses don’t have a dedicated writer on staff, which can delay production. To keep everything on track, content creation is included from the start. Each page is written to reflect your brand with built-in keywords, ensuring it supports the SEO strategy. This approach helps your site rank higher in search results while providing clear, engaging content for your audience.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Each page is carefully structured to make your website easier for search engines like Google. This process includes adding keywords that match what potential customers are searching for, setting up small but important details like a favicon (the icon in browser tabs), and refining page titles and descriptions. This creates more visibility, more visibility means more people find your business online, driving more visitors, more leads, and potential sales.
Business Email Setup
Need an email? Depending on your domain setup, our services can expand to Office 365 email account creation. This gives your website a professional front-facing website that we are able to integrate into the website.
For example when users fill out your website form, your website sends a confirmation email to them. This can appear to come from a professional account. For example: info@yourcompany.com.
The Design Process
Website Photography
Most agencies rely on stock photography. What are stock photos? Stock photos are pay to use photos. With the rise of social media, stock photography has peaked. Users demand more authenticity in brands.
Custom photography elevates the quality of our work and may be included in your website quote.
If you’re business is outside of Iowa, prices depend on the distance and schedule.
Prototype UI & Web Design
You get a first hand look at the direction of your websites design before it reaches teh coding phase. Starting with graphic design, each website is built using multiple applications. Your site is sketched out then prototyped by hand as screens. This design is used to create a visual guide to approve the website design from.
From Mockup to Live
Using the prototype as a blueprint, the user interface components are carefully constructed and integrated into the new website. Every image, icon, and visual element is meticulously extracted from the design files and implemented into the live site to ensure consistency with the original concept. This process is known as front-end web development, where the structure and functionality of the user interface take shape.
Web Development, The Build Process
Domain Creation & Forwarding
We handle domain forwarding and DNS management to ensure your website is accessible and properly routed online. DNS (Domain Name System) translates your domain name into an IP address, directing traffic to the right server. Our proper DNS configuration ensures fast loading times, security, and uninterrupted access.
Website Development
With the power of PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, we bring the design to life—transforming static visuals into an interactive and responsive experience that looks great on all devices. CSS, in particular, plays a key role in styling, animations, and layout management, ensuring that the website matches the design vision down to the finest detail.
Website Forms
By integrating well-designed forms, your site captures leads, collects inquiries, and even facilitates direct sales. Whether it’s a contact form, newsletter signup, or order request, each form serves as a touchpoint to drive engagement and generate revenue. With clear calls to action, mobile-friendly layouts, and seamless backend integration, these forms ensure you never miss an opportunity to connect with potential clients and grow your business.
Keeping your new website up and running
Web Hosting
When you create a site it lives in a file on an external server that runs on the internet. We use a closed server to keep your site safe. Cheap hosting platforms will run your data on an open server where you’re storing with countless other files, this opens it up to cyber vulnerabilities. On a closed server, you can avoid these issues.
As a part of our hosting plan we run regular site backups on your website.
Website Maintenance & Security
Have you ever had your site crash? Did you wonder how long it was down before you knew? This is a common issue with websites as daily changes cause sites to crash.
Why would a website crash?
There are several reasons a site could crash. It could be hacked, have outdated hosting settings, or software updates could be incompatible with your sites code. For whatever the reason we run monthly checks and regular updates making sure your site runs smoothly.
Daily Website Backups
If my site crashes does it need to be rebuilt? Not if we’re managing your site monthly. We run daily website backups to prevent loss. In the event that your website has crashed or has a cyber attack, we’re able to spin up the most recent version and replace corrupt data generally within 24 hours or less.
What’s the price range?
Prices are based on the projects time and skills
Prices increase based on project scale. Manufacturing websites, Multi-sites, E-Commerce, etc. are much larger projects and require considerably more time and skill. These are quoted based on the industry and functionality.
Prices increase based on third-party software setups such as Salesforce, Hubspot, google ads, advanced Schema, job integrations, and national compliance and regulatory integrations.
If you’re working on a tight budget ask our team about a custom payment plan.