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Our website design process Every step leads to a site open for business.

Each stage of the website design process answers one question: what the site must do, how it looks, how it runs, and who looks after it once it's live.

  1. Discovery
  2. Design
  3. Build
  4. Launch
  5. Ownership

The web design process, start to finish.

  1. Discovery phase of web design
    01Free call · 20 minutes

    Discovery

    Nothing to prepare. Describe the problem in your own words and the scope gets written from what you said.

    Before we hang up:

    • The goal the whole site is built around
    • Every page and feature named
    • The day you see the homepage design
  2. Design phase of a website
    02Free homepage · within 5 working days

    Design

    One page of your site goes on the internet before the build is agreed. Open it on your phone, click through it, and decide from there whether you want the rest.

    On that page:

    • How the whole site will look
    • The features you asked for on the call, working
    • The page the build starts from
  3. Website development phase
    03Dated in the quote

    Development

    You see the site half-built, unfinished pages and all. It has its own link from the first week and you can look whenever you want, without asking us. Every message gets an answer within 2 working hours.

    Any time you open it:

    • The pages that are finished
    • The text and photos in place
    • How much is left
  4. Website launch phase
    043 to 5 days · one last look

    Testing & launch

    Nothing goes public until you've walked through the finished site yourself. You say go and we put it live.

    Done before you look:

    • Every page checked on phone and computer
    • The contact form landing in your inbox
    • Visitor numbers switched on
  5. Website support after launch
    056-month warranty · 1 month of care

    Support & ownership

    Your name is on the site from the first day and it stays there. Anything we built that stops working in the first six months gets fixed for free.

    Yours from launch:

    • The domain in your name
    • The code and every login
    • A walkthrough of how it runs

Care plan

The first month of care comes with the build. Small changes go live the same working day, and we handle the hosting and updates. Keep the plan going and the site keeps getting better.

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See the homepage before you pay.

Tell us on the call what the site has to do. The finished homepage is on your phone within 5 working days. If you don't like it, the week is on us.

Prefer to write first? build@initcatalyst.com We reply within 2 working hours.