Web and Graphic Design?
It all starts with you, the client with an endless to-do list for your business or organization who feels the pressure to get a website built. Your competitors have one and so should you! Here at CreateDev, we start by listening to your story and and then sharing ours. Our crew has years of professional experience in website development, branding, and graphic design, that have served small businesses, educators, doctors and hobbyists that have been doing it for a while or are just getting started. If you already have a website that “gets the job done” – Great! We contract designers and developers to revamp and maintain your websites! Our graphic design team also specializes in expanding your existing brand and making your content more versatile. Not all logos are created equal but you want to get the most bang for your buck, right? It’s important that your logos and image media are as versatile as possible for your individual business needs. For us at CreateDev, a versatile logo means a consistent visual representing your business that can be utilized in at least two orientations: horizontal and vertical. If your logo can’t be used well in a tight, tall vertical space such as a web ad, then you might be at a disadvantage.
Our process
Our process starts with you and we want to tell the whole world about it. We strive to make your website feel like home. Your website is no different than a traditional brick and mortar storefront and you are entitled to the final say-so on how it looks. But before that, we want to promise you that our creations we finish belong to you – at CreateDev, we care about our customers and their livelyhood. You will have 100% access to your website during and after our work is done.
Once we have gathered the requirements and specifications from you, we start off by designing it first. This gives you, the client, more opportunities to support or rule out any design patterns or ideas. Then our creative and development teams work together and support each other a long the way to get working demos out to you. We provide live examples of the work in progress, like you would expect when building a new home or storefront. This cycle repeats to ensure everyone is on the same page and is ready to proceed to the next development step.
The development phase deals with integration and testing. What is integration? Depending on the complexity of your site, you may need a few more lines of code written cranked out by our basement dwelling IT team. They will help your website communicate with social media, cloud based databases, and API’s (application programming interfaces) with other data sources.
Once we have enough framework established, we can begin the testing on the front and backend of the website. This effort is typically collaborative and introduces the client and client’s team to the website and how to navigate it. After elimitaing bugs we deploy the website! SEO (search engine optimization) is also part of the development phase but this particular area is spread thin across the whole project due to the nature of it. Good SEO takes time to build up and that would take another read to capture that. It basically boils down to producing good content on your website and frequently, social media interaction, and some research on your industry and keeping up with your competition.
