Our Church Website Process

Strategy

Discovery and Goals

Before any work is done, we first just want to listen. We’ll setup a meeting to ask questions so we can get to know you and goals for your project. As we listen, we’ll also provide insights from our years of experience. Our goal is to partner alongside your team.

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Sitemap

Once the goals for the project are clear, we’ll start at a high level where we’ll organize your website’s pages with a clear strategy. We’ll present a draft of the sitemap to you and then you’ll get a chance to provide feedback. We’ll keep making revisions until everyone is happy.

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Wireframe

After the sitemap is confirmed, we’ll create wireframes for each page. These wireframes will give us an outline for what type of content is on each page. We’ll present a draft of these wireframes to you and then you’ll get a chance to provide feedback. We’ll keep making revisions until everyone is happy.

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Design

Discovery

Before we design anything, you’ll get a chance to send over links and screenshots of what kind of vibes you’re looking for on your new website. Good vibes only.

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Homepage Concepts

We’ll start the design process by drafting a few different homepage concepts for you that match the visual direction that you want. Each concept explores a different direction. You’ll select which direction you like best, provide any additional feedback, and then we’ll make revisions until everyone is happy with the homepage. The homepage will serve as the style guide for the rest of the page designs.

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Supplemental Pages

Using the homepage as a guide, we’ll then design the rest of the pages for the websites. You’ll get to see mockups of what every page will look like. We’ll make revisions on these pages until everyone is happy.

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Content

Images

Either provide us a folder of images for us to place on the pages or you can make those selections yourself.

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Copy

We’ll provide you with some guides to help you craft copy that is engaging and clear. You’ll then input all of the copy that is needed across the website. We’ll be helping hand along the way. You can also hire us write the copy for you!

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Development

Build

Our development team will development the website to look exactly like our design mockups. We’ll utilize responsive design so that everything looks and works great on every type of device. The website will be built with Webflow, our favorite web platform.

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Animate and Populate

Your website will come to life as we add animations across all pages. These animations are the special sauce that adds a WOW factor for your audience. We’ll also begin populating your website will all the content that has been provided.

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Review + Polish

We’ll present an almost finish build of your website so you can review with your team and request minor changes. Afterwards, we’ll spend extra effort to make sure every aspect on the website is smooth and works great.

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Handoff

Launch

The most exciting part! We’ll confirm the schedule launch date for your website and then work with your team to seamlessly launch the new website.

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Handbook with tutorials

After the site has been launched, we will provide training documentation so you know how to update and make maintain your website over time.

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Ongoing support

We’re available for ongoing support whenever you need us. You can hire us at our hourly rate or sign up for a maintenance plan to get a discount on our time.

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Note:

Each section of the process is a checkpoint in the project. We don’t move forward to the next section until the previous section is complete. Once we move forward to the next section, the previous work is considered “locked-in”. After locked-in, revisions are subject to an added cost.

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