Development
What’s my starting point in building a site: Content, Content, Content. This means respecting and understanding the client’s content and its purpose and to build a site that matches the client’s vision for this content. Other design considerations:
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Images
What images will portray the meaning and feel of a website. Are they high quality, royalty free? Who will crop, style, and web prepare? What is the proper placement and perspective in relation to the text?
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Typography
Determine various type fonts, sizes, weights, and colors, and how they work together. Also, line-spacing, letter-spacing, and paragraph styling to enhance the overall readability of the site.[/one_half_last]
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Calls to Actions
On each page, what do you want to convey to the reader and what would you like them to do next? It might be to purchase a product, sign-up for a newsletter, submit a contact form, information or document download, etc.
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Responsive & Mobile Ready
How will the site look and interact with all the common browsers, tablets, and on mobile devices? How will the images scale and have the highest resolution?
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Logistics
Header and Footer integration with clear and concise navigation and purpose. This includes copyright, terms & policies, and contact info.
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Hosting and Internet Happiness
Availability of domain address, setup hosting service, DNS pointers, analytics, and ongoing site maintenance.
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Let’s work together. If you have an existing web site, let me take a look and I’ll do an assessment. Need a new site? Let’s kick around some ideas. This is simple, let’s have a conversation and I can walk you through the process.