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The Design Process

What goes into making a website that looks great, and works for you

Building a website in 5 minutes - yeh really? In 5 minutes you could click and point, and have a template of what the service may be offering you. To actually have a decent website that is going to work for your business it takes a lot damn longer than 5 minutes.

What do you want?

If you want a cheapie website, or want to use one of these website builder softwares, then please feel free to do so. Most new businesses will try this first, then wonder why a few years later their website hasn't got anywhere, and they ended up with a mountain of spam offering them viagra.

Web Design Process

Planning and investigation first

At Portsmouth Website Design we always chat with our clients and send them out a question and answer document. Okay - it might take them a few hours to fill it in (depending on what they want to tell us), but then if you are serious about a business, you certainly wouldn't plan it out in 5 minutes.

There are about 9 key stages that go into getting a website online - number 10 is actually YOU. But if you look at the graphic we put here on this page, that kind of explains the basics of what goes into making a website great.

Like what you see so far?

Give us 5 minutes - we're working on client websites. You can always email us now.
to have a chat.

Business Checklist

Have you already got a business?
If you already have your own business, what so far have you done to make it work? It may be that you work damn hard and you have a website or advertising program that simply is not cutting the mustard. You don't need to invest thousands of pounds into your advertising or a website, but you do need someone that understands how websites work, and how to get the best from them. When you consider there are millions of websites, you need your website to show up somewhere - preferably near the top of the search engines.
Are you just thinking of starting up a business?
I've run my own business for 30 years plus now, and let me tell you, there are advantages and disadvantages to running your own business. Running your own business (or starting one) demands that you willing to work hard.
If you have a business, how dedicated are you to it?
If you're not prepared to put in long days every week, then really why should we? It's your business, but if you are thinking "build it and they will come" then you are sadly mistaken. You need to discipline yourself, and be prepared to work hard (well at least in the early years) of your business venture.
Do you want to succeed or would you prefer to do as little as possible?
If you wish to do as little as possible, then maybe consider the unemployment business where you can sit down and wait for a hand out. In your own business you need to be prepared to screw over your own mother to get somewhere (of course that is a joke), but you get the point!