Starting a website
Article written 2010/07/13 by Pageseven Studios staff writer PG7Daniel
Every business at some point realizes that a website is a must have.
In this article we have a look at how this process works or rather is supposed to work.
Step One: Deciding your website name.
Since everyone of your potential clients needs to be able to remember your name so it helps to pick a short name.
The name allows a opportunity to provide some insight into your company as well.
As an example, should *Awesome Medical Aid require a website, what would they use as a domain name?
Since the company trades as *ABC Medical Services but the Medical Aid has its own name - what would the logical name be?
They have a big client base and requires their clients to have access to their policies.
Since the clients know their medical aid name the logical domain name should be obvious - AwesomeMedicalAid.com
Step Two: Signing up with a design company
Getting the right company for the job is important, their experience and portfolio should speak for itself.
We as Pageseven Studios focus on making sure that each project is done to perfection as your website is our pride as well.
We provide a multitude of services and our track record speaks for itself.
Our promise to you is: dedicated personnel, offering all required services, in one place.
Step Three: Setting up the hosting.
Your hosting is a very important portion - and unfortunately an often overlooked key element.
There are lots of hosting providers locally, however their Service Level Agreements are often lacking and access speeds are not the best.
Pageseven Studios has struck a deal with a senior hosting company located in the United States.
This allows us to provide you high traffic capabilities, great speeds and quick service (at the same price as most local providers).
We can set up an International Domain ( at cheaper rates than what our competitors ask for local domains), live and ready for web content in under 10 Minutes. Competitors, beat that!
Step Four: Design
Your design needs to speak to you, it needs to be something you can be proud of to show to clients.
More importantly it needs to make sense to your clients.
We offer a wide variety of options for your website, from one page static websites - to massive online repositories.
Anything you can dream we will build, as part of the normal process we will even dream it up for you!
Picking your design
As per the normal flow, and depending on the option you choose, you can expect no less than three totally different concepts to choose from for your website.
We will design these for you based on your taste and ideas.
Adjustments on request
We will further change the concept you like most, to get it just right - or - if you like two, we can combine their best aspects for you.
There is a limit on the amount of change cycles we have, since some clients in the past can't make up their mind - which is bad for a project.
Step Five: Development
Based on the complexity of the design and the "special" functionality needed, the turnaround time for this is quite quick.
Large projects take longer due to the sheer scale, but we never tire and are used to little sleep to make your project become a reality.
Included in the development is the standard SEO optimisation, something a website struggles to rate well on Google.
Step Six: Listing
We list your site on Google as part of the service, however we cannot guarantee rankings with the exception of proper campaigns.
Please visit our article on Google SEO for more information as this is almost always a request from our clients, one you might have as well.