Helpful Hints and Tips:

This section of the web site is to help prepare potential customers to the consultation meeting. While not required reading material, it's highly suggested that all potential web-site owners read this information so they can feel like they contributed to their web site and it's not Harpeah Design's Web site, but theirs.

Time:

Wednesday, January 6, 2010d scripts there are to a web site, the longer it will take to go from phase one to phase five. The smaller, less complicated web sites will understandably go up faster. If you have a large project, consider the most important aspects and put them at the top of the to do list. Break down the project into smaller, controllable chunks and you'll find that progress will be much easier marked. Smaller, not graphic heavy web sites take anywhere from 10 to 20 hours. Larger web sites, or graphic heavy web sites can take weeks of full time work to complete.

Phases:

All web sites go through five phases. Each level of the phase usually has a meeting, even if just by email to keep both the Designers and the Clients in the loop so changes can be made promptly and smoothly. The phases for Harpeah Designs can be found Here. This includes questions that will be asked at meetings (but not all of them!)

Communication:

The death of a web site comes when the designer and client have trouble communicating. Communication and the internet are hand-gripped friends not torn apart by the sands of time. Both sides of the table must be open to new ideas, and listen and make compromises to insure that the client gets what they need and want, but without the costs going high for the designer to do so. There will be at least four meetings to create, build and maintain the first level of your web site. The meetings will last for an hour to two hours, or more if there are questions to be answered on both sides. Communication is Key.

Knowing your Competition

For a business, knowing what the other people in your field, or like fields is doing is key. Not so much for personal web sites, though a knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is important, it's not so life and death as a business. The internet is a brilliant way of getting information across, but likewise, protecting information is just as important. Be prepared to need at least 1 email account dedicated to catching emails off the web site with a good spam blocker. Harpeah Designs offers email accounts with their hosting packages, but most places do for business accounts as well. Clients will get what they pay for however, our designer is one person, some company's who charge more employ five to fifty web designers, graphic artists, programmers... We won't be able to duplicate everything cool a client sees on the web. And if we can, we'll tell you a fair price to duplicate or attempt to duplicate it.

Asking for Help:

No one is perfect, and the internet can get confusing even to those of us who practically live upon it's every whim. As questions, and if our designer doesn't know the answer she'll put it at the top of her priority list to find out. Our designers first commitment to web design is to make things that people love, so they can show off what they love, be it work, personal or pleasure, with the kind of self confidence that having created something can bring.

More questions or do you have a good tip for beginning clients looking to start their own web site? Contact us! We're interested in what you think!