Web Development for Designers - The Dev Department

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You design it...we build it!

We provide wholesale managed website development for designers and marketers. We give you all the tools you will need to estimate, design and review your HTML, Joomla CMS or Custom PHP website projects.

Here's how it works:

You estimate design and planning, we will estimate development costs.

Prepare your site outline with descriptions of each page's content, layout and functionality. We call this a Functional Specifications (FS) document.

Heres an example of what it looks like:

Project Summary: Basic brochure site with contact form and event calendar. Client might need Search Marketing and Email.

HOME PAGE: Main masthead image with three feature boxes for: latest news, weekly special and events
ABOUT US: (navigation placeholder - will not be a page)
- MISSION: single text page with no images
- OUR FOUNDER: single text page with left aligned image of John Doe
- OUR TEAM: page with main image of full staff that lists each team member and title with links to bio pages
  - JOHN SMITH: single page with headshot and bio
  - SUZY PUBLIC: single page with headshot and bio
LATEST NEWS: articles listed with title, date and brief intro
- 12 article pages with images
EVENTS: event calendar loads with a list of upcoming events (this will populate from Google Calendar)
CONTACT US: contact page with feedback for (approximately 5 fields and form results will email and store to a database)

Once you have prepared your Site Outline / Functional Specifications document, send it to us using our quote request form . We can usually produce an estimate within 24 hours.

We give you the tools to do it right!

After your client approves the estimate, the next step is to create all the documents we will need to build the site.

Planning is the most important phase and will determine the overall quality of what we are able to build. Poorly planned sites lead to higher development costs and lower quality websites. Because of this, we give you all the tools and advice you need to do it right.

Here are the planning and design tasks:

Plan and create your Look & Feel design document.
Create a Wireframe document of site pages.
Create page "Comps" of key pages.
Assemble your Content Document and images.

We will review each step of the way with you to identify issues that could later impact development. We usually review planning docs within 24 hours of receipt.

This is where we shine!

The build phase usually takes 3 to 6 weeks and we deliver a fully tested site.

When we build a site, we not only build the site exactly as you designed and planned it, but we also do all the testing and proofing that developers often overlook.

Some of the things we test:

element spacing and irregularities
font size, color, weight and line spacing
spelling and grammar
cross-browser testing and style sheets (we test for 8 different browser versions)
common SEO issues (javascript errors, invalid XHTML)

During the build phase, we are in constant contact with you so that you always know the status of development as well as any issues that might arise.

We develop everything on our anonymous servers and move it to your hosting when we are ready to go live.

Approve your site and review with your client.

Use our site review checklist before you take the site to you client to be sure you have covered all your bases.

Our goal is to make designing sites fun and profitable for you. However, there is never a guarantee that we will see everything, so we provide a Website Review Checklist to help you easily double-check our work before you send it to your client.

Here are some other benefits we provide:

90-day warranty on all workmanship
Free Joomla training for your team so that you can train your client
Free move to live server (when using Dev Department approved hosting)
Joomla website administrators guide customized for your client (fees may apply)

We don't send a final invoice until your site is live.

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Here's how it works:

You estimate design and planning, we will estimate development costs.

Heres an example of what it looks like:

We give you the tools to do it right!

Here are the planning and design tasks:

This is where we shine!

Some of the things we test:

Approve your site and review with your client.

Here are some other benefits we provide: