Website Quote

Please tell us about your company, such as history, brand, size, staff and locations. This will help us understand what you’re all about. Include a summary on the services or products you provide. What is your company mission? Also include any plans for future growth that might be important for us to be aware of.

Try your best to describe the type of people that your new website should target. Describe what your ideal client looks like. This will help us design a site geared towards those exact people.

What are the overall aims of the new site? Most often we’ll see a mix of the following goals below.

Who are your main competitors? Some may have areas of interest i.e. key functionality. Which sites have great designs that you like? Take a look at things like layout, color schemes, typography, photography, and unique tools or features. Please provide a list of links with reference notes for each of them i.e what you like specifically.

Following on from looking at your competitors, or pages that you like, try and describe what you would like to see for the look and feel of your new site. For example: The website is aimed at athletes, so we want a clean, modern, and sporting look. A red/white/blue color scheme would work well, and we think this will give a really fresh feel to the site. Cool fonts like the ones on xyz.com might look good. The whole website just needs to ooze sports, fitness, and well being. Pay attention to any nice user interface features you like. Do you like lifestyle photography or illustrations? How much of a free reign do you want our designers to have?

In order to avoid "scope creep" later into the project (and additional costs to you) be as thorough as you can here. Will the new site feature user logins? How will registrations be handled, authorized, and managed? What will be on the user dashboard? Describe every single e feature that will be required. Are you selling products on the site? If so, describe product categories and variations, payment/checkout methods required, shipping cost calculations, shipping tracking, discount codes, any referral discounts, etc. API Integration – Will the site need to integrate with any external feeds or APIs – if so, we’ll need thorough detail and actual examples of these. If you’re unsure, no problem – we can talk through this later. Also, please check list the general areas of the site that will be required such as: News/Blog, Social media feeds, Discussion Forum, Interactive Map, Events section, Online Bookings, Portfolio Section, and Team Page

Will you be providing new content for the site or will you require our team to write content for you? What photography, illustrations or graphics (i.e. your logo) are currently available? Are there branding guidelines such as colors and fonts we must follow?

Describe how the site will be managed on a day-to-day basis. Will you be you updating and adding content, or will our team be assisting with that? How often will content need to be updated? Other than the standard contact form, will any form of data export be required from the site? Other than standard Google Analytics, do you need to gather any more on-going data from the site?

Do you currently have a domain purchased for your new website?

Realistically, when would you like your website to be live?

There’s nothing worse than investing a lot in your brand new website, but then forgetting that you’ll need to drive visitors to it. Search engine optimization), pay-per-click, social media and email marketing have never been more powerful, and any new website requires a well thought out and planned online strategy. Are you interested in learning more about Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization for your new website?