Original Article from IntelliSites, the smart choice for web design (and SEO!)
If you've recently chosen IntelliSites to put together your website, we're confident that you'll be thrilled with your website when we're done. But websites do take some time to put together, so a lot of our clients ask us if there is anything they can do to help speed up the process.
Here's what we tell them.
1. Appoint an internal point person. It's up to you whether you refer to him or her as the point person, the IntelliSites Guru, the Website Ninja, or “Dr. Website,” but at the end of the day you just need a person who is in charge of interfacing with us regularly. This is the person who gathers up questions, comments, and feedback from your end and delivers it to us.
2. Familiarize yourself with our milestones sheet. Our clients receive a handy little sheet that breaks down the time-line for their website projects. If you're wondering when something needs to be returned to us or when you can expect something on our end, our milestones sheet puts it all there in black and white for you. (Not to mention yellow, blue, and green. We tend to make them quite colorful.)
3. Understand what each deliverable is for. During the web design process, we're going to show you our progress a few times along the way. Two important things we'll show you are the wire-frame and templates. We'll show you the wire-frame when we've got a plan for how the website will be laid out. When you view it, remember that you're JUST looking for layout - don't worry about colors or fonts yet. When we show you the templates later on, that's the time to tell us if you're not feeling the colors or the graphics.
4. Make a list of what you hope to get out of this website, and share it with us. Have your Website Ninja shoot us an e-mail about your major expectations and hopes for this website. These thoughts have certainly come up a number of times along the way in our discussions with you, but it doesn't hurt anyone to develop a succinct list of the most important big picture stuff. We'll change the font to Monotype Corsiva, print it, frame it, and use it as our inspiration as we work.
5. Remember that a website can be updated, changed, and optimized. In fact, it should be! So there's never a now-or-never decision when it comes to building your site. Don't sweat the small stuff too much as you try to make decisions about your site. We can put together an amazing site for you now, and then keep building on the awesomeness in the years to come.
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