What Do I Need?

You need to ask yourself a few questions before thinking about getting involved with a web design project:

Involvement:

Your involvement in the project will determine its overall success. You should be able to commit between 2-4 hours minimum per week for communications and approvals. If you cannot be available, you should think about giving the responsibility to another member of your company to oversee the web design project. On the other extreme, having TOO many people in involved /overseeing the project and adding their "feedback" may only serve to slow the process of the project down. There should really be only one central project manager that can work directly with one of our staff.

Content:

We will work with you to learn about your company. We understand that you know your company and clients better than anyone else, so we will need to turn to you when it comes to providing text content for your site. If you need our help in assisting you to write content and take photographs, we would be happy to assist you. Please bear in mind that this assistance in creating the actual content for your site will increase the overall cost and time to complete your web design project.

Can't I just give you an existing brochure to copy?
Yes, this is called "brochure-ware" which is converting text, images, and concepts of one medium to another - in this case, print to web. Unfortunately with this approach, you might not be using your web site to its fullest potential. However, it is one way to get a web site up quickly or if you have a limited budget. Ideally, you should try to create a new concept for your web site with new content written and optimizes specifically for your website.

Supporting Web Services:

You will need such services in place as a domain name, web hosting, and in the case of online stores, e-commerce considerations. Bower Web Solutions can help you with these aspects of your website project as well.

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