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Marin Web Design | 822 D St. Suite 6 San Rafael | CA 94901 | (415) 316-1009
The Marin Web Design
Process
The team at Marin Web Design will walk you through our proven process to deliver a turnkey website. We use the following phases and milestones to ensure a high quality product and excellent service. Each area of our 6 step process is critical to your website’s success.
Each phase has a structured process and series of activities that we must
complete together. In this brochure, you will see an outline of each process
and the steps required to deliver a high quality product and service.
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Discovery and Contractpage 4
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Kickoff Meeting
IA and Navigation
Design and Visual Content
Development
Quality Assurance andLaunch
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Our skilled sales staff will meet with you to learn more about your online goals.
We’ll ask a series of questions about your business in order to understand how we
may bring value to you. We’ll also discuss the goals of your website and develop a
clear understanding of your project. From this data we’ll be able to accurately
produce a proposal and contract. If your project falls outside of our expertise or
areas of strength, our sales staff will do our best to recommend or refer you to
someone who may be better suited for your project.
Discovery and Contract
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During the kickoff meeting two members of the Marin Web Design team will be
present. A project manager and your sales person will meet with you to review the
signed agreement, deliverables and fee schedule. If you have any questions
regarding the contract this is the perfect time to discuss them. Reviewing the
agreement together ensures that we are all moving in the same direction.
Kickoff Meeting
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The project manager will also ask you to sign off on two
additional documents:
The credit card authorization form allows our accounting
team to bill any approved recurring software or stock
image purchases to your account directly during the course
of your project.
credit card authorization form
web and software credentials formThe web and software credentials form allows us to keep a
secure record of your website’s login details. It also speeds
up the support process on your web project moving forward.
Some of the details that this document will contain are:
Domain Registrar: (GoDaddy, Network Solutions etc.)
Database Details: (Examples: MySql)
Hosting Account: (Host Gator, Blue host, etc)
Any third party software that may be used as part of your project(Constant Contact, Facebook etc.)
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Once these two documents are executed the project manager will take over the
meeting and work with you to define a production calendar that has milestones,
dates and deliverables that work with your schedule and company resources.
If you are prepared for your kickoff meeting with the two signed forms above this
will allow us to focus on other areas of your project during this one-hour meeting.
If you are not prepared for any reason that is okay too. We’ll be more than happy to
walk you through this step of tasks and answer any questions you may have.
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03IA and NavigationOur information architecture and copywriting team will walk you through this
section of your project. Planning your website’s navigation is a great way to
ensure that the design team knowswhat they are designing for. Many usability
experts strongly support that design without content is merely a placeholder.
The links of your navigation and the text content chosen for you home and inner
pages is critical to your project’s completion and the Marin Web Design standard
of quality.
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We submit IA and Copy You sign off
You submit revisions
We submit second IA and Copy
You submit second revisions
We finalize IA and Copy
Once our team has the IA and Copy ready to share we’ll send them over via email
and request that you place your comments and revision requests in a detailed
email. Once we receive your notes we may work to incorporate them in up to two
sets of copy revisions. The process looks a bit like this:
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Website Content FormAcceptance of Site Structure and
Website Content Form
Acceptance of
If you have existing copy for your website, we can assist you in enhancing it or
simply proof it for you. If you do not have existing copy we may interview you via
gotomeeting.com and assist you with it. At the end of this major milestone our
information architecture and copywriting team will request that you sign off on
our standard form:
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04Design and Visual ContentOur skilled design team will work with you to develop a current and beautiful
website presence. A few creative exercises and brainstorming activities will be
asked of you during this phase.
Client Needs Analysis
Creative Brief
List of Likes and Dislikes
Home page design mockup,layout and wireframe
Inner Page design mockup, layout and wireframe
A few client forms that need to be filled out are:
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Slideshow images
Custom fonts
Inner page article images
Stock vector graphics
Other stock artwork
We will ask for your approval to bill any
required assets to the card on file in your
cc authorization from via written email.
By recording the creative meeting via
gotomeeting.com our team may efficiently
work to design and brainstorm internally to
your exact specs and likes. Once our team
has proofing asset to share we’ll send them
over via email and request that you place
your comments and revision requests in a
detailed email. Once we receive your notes
we may work to incorporate them in up to
two sets of revisions.
To keep your project on track there are a few visual content
assets that we must acquire during this phase. They are:
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In the event you need an additional set of revisions our project manager must
initiate a change order and you will be requested to make payment for additional
hours. This will be in the form of a block of time. We do not want to limit your
creativity but also must make sure that we are being fair across all accounts.
At the end of this major milestone our design team will request that you sign off
on our standard form:
Site Design FormAcceptance of
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05DevelopmentOnce our design team hands off the approved mockups to the production and
development team, your new website will be translated into code form. Once
our developers have translated your website design into functional code we will
send you a proofing link to review the product.
At the end of this major milestone our design team will request that you sign off
on our standard form:
Site Development FormAcceptance of
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06Quality Assurance and Launch Our team will check each of their respective areas of focus to ensure a high
quality end product. A few key areas that each team member is checking are:
Quality of Code
Compression of Images
Quality of Copy
Overall SEO of website
Server configuration
Security checks
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