Tybee Web Design

Process

We are a low-key, low-pressure web development company. Our goal is to offer good service and great products. We utilize a rapid site development process and most of our sites range from $750 - $2500. We'd love to meet with you or talk on the phone - you can fill out the contact us form or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to get a free estimate.

Determine Sites Goals:

First Step - determine your site's goals. Who is the customer? What do you want your site to? How will you maintain it?

Content Organization:

Next Step - get a rough feel for the how you'd like your content on your site.

for example the Content Organization is something like this:

Sections	Categories	Content Items
Company	About	Contact Information
	Employment	List of Open Positions
FAQs	Product 1 FAQs	List of Questions and Answers about Product 1
	Product 1 FAQs	List of Questions and Answers about Product 2
Home	Home Page	Welcome Message

Template/Design:

After getting a basic feel for content and site purpose it is time to create the Template or Design.

Once we have a basic site structure and understand your site's purpose we can propose a few designs - either create one from scatch or use a pre-exiting template. It is faster and cheaper to use a pre-existing template but we are happy to build one from scratch or use one from another designer.

Installing Functionality:
If you'd like a custom form, shopping cart, newsletter, forum - any thing to make your site a better customer experience. We can install or develop whatever you need.

Testing and SEO:
After it's all good and you are satisfied there's more testing. We want your site to be robust, secure and usable - we always thoroughly test our sites. We also want your site to fare well on the search engines. We make sure your site is designed to be as search engine friendly as possible.

Documentation:
If we use a third party solution for your site all versions and file changes will be noted so that it is easy for us or another developer to efficiently upgrade and maintain your site.

Post-Development:

We will help and support you with any questions your first month but after that the site is yours. We do offer managed hosting for $150/mo if you'd like to simply forget about your site. But website maintenance is important and in order to keep your site secure you must be viligant. We also offer site maintenance training if you'd like to do your own maintenace - a cms like Joomla has a small learning curve but doesn't take too long to figure out.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 August 2007 )

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Process

Most of our site solutions use a powerful CMS called Joomla. Why Joomla? After much research and experience we've found Joomla plus the many third party products are definitely the best solution for small to medium sized businesses. Also, Joomla is recognized through many awards: UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, CMS 2006 and more. Why so many awards? The short answer - Joomla is the easiest website development product to use and has strong community support.

Template choices: JoomlaShack Templates, RocketTheme Template Club