" Archeris manages all aspects of our online presence, letting us focus on what we do best without an in-house technical team. From managing the website to email marketing and SEO, Archeris provides the complete solution."
Web Development
Building a successful website that will stand out in your industry requires thorough planning and experience across a variety of web development areas.
The first step in developing a user-centric website requires an understanding of your business, your competitors, industry best practices and stakeholder expectations.
We begin the process by finding out as much information about your business and your customers as we can, arming ourselves with the information required to plan your information architecture in a way that satisfies the goals of each user of your website.
Research Phase
During the initial research phase, we create a number of documents that provides an essential ‘checklist’ for the design and development phases, ensuring we achieve identified goals and deliver to requirements. These documents include:
- Business assessment
- Existing website audit
- Competitor and industry analysis
- User personas
- Information architecture guide
- Website wireframes
Web Design Phase
The design phase addresses the user experience and user interface, ensuring your site is easy to use and information is ordered in a logical and hierarchical manner. Your homepage should allow any site user to achieve their goal within a single click, ensuring your content is easy to access and requires little thought to navigate to. This process involves the following key areas:
- Navigation design
- Website design
- Template development
- Graphic and asset design
- Style and layout guides
Web Development Phase
The web development phase begins by ensuring the design fully adheres to the project requirements. This requires that both the project managers and key stakeholders have agreed on the site design and architecture, and that the site is ready to be developed.
Our web developers will then plan the development of the CMS and database to ensure it is logical and scalable, and that it accommodates future development needs.
Our web design team will slice and optimise flat graphics ready for the web, while our front-end developers build the HTML, CSS and Javascript/Ajax required to implement the site, maintaining a total separation of presentation, content and structure.
Our web development team will use the code prepared to implement it into the CMS, building the required dynamic display modules and templates to effectively populate the required pages, and ensuring the system is easy to maintain for future development.
Testing and Rollout
At the completion of the development phase, we will thoroughly test the website to ensure it is not only technically sound, but that it achieves all the objectives identified in the original specification and requirements documents.
Once the client has approved the website, it can be made live on your domain, with the previous website URL’s being migrated permanently across to ensure you maintain your full search engine value and do not leave broken URL’s indexed in search engines or user favourites.
Contact Us
If you have a new project you would like to talk to us about, give us a call or drop us an email and lets discuss whether we are best suited to help you.
