Akvitek Web Design Company
Melbourne based Website Development Agency

We normally ask few questions when we first meet our new client. These questions are designed to understand your mindset, your preferences about style, look and feel of your website. We also want to know the reason for you to make your website and how it is going to be worthy for your business. We would also like to know about your prospects and customers or website visitors and their expectations from your new site. Even if you find your website interesting but if it doesn't become useful to your customers then it won't do much good to your business. Here are some the questions you can expect to be asked:

• What niche are you into?
• Who are your main competitors?
• How different are you from your competition?
• What is your goal, achievement and expectations from your website?
• Which are the websites that you currently like design-wise and why?
• What functionalities would you like to be on your website?
• How fast do you need your website?

Once we get your answers to above and few other questions, we are ready to move onto the next phase of web design process.

Once we have known the needs and requirements of your website, we are off to perform research. This phase entails a plan of action based on visitor's profile, your competition in the market and your needs. We research on what works within your niche, and we also look at other websites within your niche on what they are doing wrong and see how we can make it better to succeed where others have failed to address it.

We also compile the technologies that are needed and be used for your site and plan on how to include them into the web design.

Upon information gathering process is done and we have identified the use of technologies to be involved, we begin giving the structure to your new website. We call this process - 'wireframing'. The goal of wireframing is to identify the overall structure, page hierarchy, linking structure and the final website skeleton. We ensure that best practices are involved and your new design has a logical and consistent flow of architecture.

This is by far the most critical step as during this phase is where your website starts taking shape. Focus on potential customers and their usability is being considered during this phase. The website is designed practically to keep it simpler, sleek and to ensure that potential leads can turn into paying customers.

During this phase, we create a visually appealing web design based on the site architecture we planned in the previous phase. Good design will make it easy for visitors to know what to do and what page to browse depending upon their respective requirement. We are able to use our resources to make a custom website design which not only looks great but is also appropriate for end users and your business.

The main logical step is to design the homepage because homepage is always the first impression that your site will make on your customers. During this phase, we determine the fonts, overall style and colour scheme that will flow across the site. Once the homepage is designed, we present it to you for approval. We welcome your feedback to finalise the design of a homepage. Most sites go through this process to improve the overall design and meet their client's needs. We always provide expert advice if we feel that something chosen is not in the better interest of the project and corresponding business.

Once the homepage is locked off and approved by you, we start designing internal pages for appropriate approval. Upon completion and approval, we begin the actual coding of the entire site. There is always an open dialogue and collaboration between us. Changes are made as necessary as we focus on final website design.

Everything comes together in this final phase of the website design. Our development team brings your chosen and approved designs to life. This is where we implement all the functionalities planned from various phases and see them in action.

Once the website development is finished, we start testing and checking the website for various cross-browser functionalities as the site should open equally good in all browsers. If the responsive web design is chosen by you, then we also ensure that the site responds as per the screen size of a various tablet and mobile devices. All the testing are done on our server and once the tests are passed and approved by you, it is then transferred to your desired web host and made live.