Our Process

1. Discovery & Planning

Understanding goals, audience, and requirements.  Assumptions made during the sales process will be re-affirmed and scope adjusted accordingly.

• Spec alignment (platform, CMS)

2. Design & Prototyping

Wireframes, UI/UX, and Branding.

3. Development

We follow an iterative development approach, building pages as designs stabilize. This allows for early implementation and feedback while ensuring final revisions align with approved designs.

• Setup hosting account
  • Firewall
  • Database
  • Development & staging environment
  • Source control
• Initial development
  • Base level backend development
  • Base level integration work
  • Light theming and UI (depends on stable design)
• Development
  • Theme development
    • Scope review
    • Theming and UI (depends on approved template design)
    • Page building iteration (depends on approved per-page design)
  • Backend Development
    • Scope review
    • Custom CMS Blocks
    • Custom hosted functions
• Setup production environment
  • Firewall adjustments
  • CDN
  • Email notifications

4. Testing & Optimization

Performance, security, and usability checks.

• Initial testing (internal)
• Beta testing iteration (internal + client)
• Launch Candidate approval (client)

5. Launch & Deployment

• DNS

6. Ongoing Support

Maintenance, updates, and improvements.