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You're just one step away from ordering your new website complete with:
- Total control of your content
- Beautiful bespoke design
- Unlimited support
- Excellent value with no hidden costs
- Zero carbon emissions
- Accessible and standards compliant code
How we build websites - step by step
Building a website is a three step process. This can be done as quickly as you can supply us with content and resources. The whole process typically takes around four weeks, but can be completed in as little as three days.
1. Initial design briefing
During the initial design briefing, we discuss your website likes and dislikes, colour, font and layout preferences and the content you want to include on the site. We will ask you for your logo and any other photos you'd like to incorporate in the design.
We will provide you with a website design, available to view online in a browser. You then provide us with feedback on this design. When the design is agreed, we convert it to HTML and CSS and lock it into the site template.
2. Adding content
We will populate your site with initial content for you to get you started (up to 25 pages). We will provide you with a template so that we can agree a “Site Map”.
Content from existing websites
We can normally paste most content from existing websites straight into your new site without problems. However, if you have a large number of documents or images on pages we may need to ask for FTP access to your current website to complete this task. We would not normally transfer any image galleries you have, nor any other non-standard features without prior agreement.
New content
We’re quite flexible and you can provide new content to us within emails or Word documents etc. However, we do ask that the page title it is clearly labelled, as well as the menu it should belong to.
Unfortunately, we cannot extract images from Word documents to add them to web pages, so please provide any images which should go alongside any content separately. If the content is very graphical, we may have to convert it to PDF and add it as a downloadable document. We will add a couple of images to a couple of galleries to get you started if you would find that helpful. We can also batch upload hundreds of photos, resized to the correct dimensions, ready to drop in to your content.
Content Management System (CMS)
At an agreed point in the process, we will provide you with an administrator log-in to the CMS. You will be able to set up any additional users as necessary.
When you first start to use the Content Management System (CMS), you may find it useful for the website administrator to have an orientation session over the telephone. We will introduce the main aspects of the CMS and work through some common tasks together. This can then be passed on to any other users within the school on a cascade basis. We encourage you to try the system for yourself and experiment, but we are always available by telephone or email if you need help. A training manual will be emailed to you and this is also available for download from within the CMS. Video demonstrations of some of the most common tasks can also be viewed here.
3. Going Live
We will give you instructions on how to make your new website appear under your existing domain name. Or you can use a completely new domain name. Domain name and website hosting are included in the annual licence / support fee.
