Visual Interactive : Website design brief

1. About you and your business.

First, please tell us how we can contact you.

What is your full name? (Required) What is your company / business name? What is your email address? (Required)

Now tell us a little about your business to give us an idea of what you do.

Tell us what your business is about and what it does. How long have you been trading? What products and / or services do you provide? (Required)

To give us an idea as to the scale of your operation, tell us your approximate annual turnover? Where is your business located? Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the web address?

2. Your goals.

Do you have any objectives for your website? This might be ‘Our website is outdated and we want to refresh the design’ or 'We want to promote a specific area of our business’. Providing a few bullet points will provide us with a good understanding about what you are looking to accomplish.

Tell us your objectives and goals.

So we can understand as much as possible about your customers, tell us about your target audience. Are your customers commercial or domestic?

3. Branding.

Do you have an existing brand or company logo for us to work with? Do you need us to follow your existing brand or extend or re-develop the design? Are you a start-up business that needs to establish a new fresh, engaging brand?

Do you have an existing brand for us to follow? Do you require us create a new brand or re-develop your existing brand?

4. Content.

It is important to ensure that your content organised as soon as possible. Do you have a library of photos or images we would be able to use, or would you need us to source images, graphics or videos? Having your content available at the beginning of the project will aid in defining the structure and design of the website.

Do you have content available for your website? Do you have an image / photo library we can use for your website? Do you require us to write the copy for the website?

5. Technical functionality.

Technical functionality may include things such as: online shop, online forms, booking systems, account / member registration, newsletter subscription, online payments, blog or news articles, member’s area. If you require a members area, describe what the member's profile or dashboard will consist of.

List the functionality you need along with a brief description about what you would like to include.

6. Budgeting.

Providing us with an approximate budget will save us both time and effort in formulating a suitable solution. It will enable us to outline precisely what is and what is not achievable within the scope of your objectives. For example, a larger budget would enable us to spend additional time on developing specific areas of the website, whilst a smaller budget would guide us to provide alternative solutions to key objectives.

What is your approximate budget?

7. Deliverable timescale.

The amount of time required to develop a website will be greatly affected by various factors. For example, the speed in which requested textual and imagery content can be supplied to us and the speed in which design concepts can be agreed upon. For organisations where committees are involved, the development time usually increases dramatically due to the number of people involved and the timeframe of committee meetings etc...

Therefore, it is important to tell us if you have a deadline and about any factors that may affect the deliverable timescale of the project.

Is the project being managed by a committee or sub-committee? Do you have a project deadline? If so, what is the deadline date? (Format: DD/MM/YYYY)

8. Internet services.

We provide a comprehensive package of internet services to accompany all of our website projects, and most of our clients choose to host their sites with us. However, a tiny minority of clients choose to remain with their existing hosting company. If you already have exiting internet services with a different hosting company, we require that it is provided with the latest version of PHP, MySQL version 5.6 or greater and has adequate disk space.

Do you have services with an existing hosting company? If so, what is the name of the hosting company?

if so, would you be interested in switching to our comprehensive package and allowing us to be a one-source provider of your internet services? If you choose to remain with your existing hosting company, do you have available the credentials needed to be able to access your FTP / SFTP server, MySQL database and / or hosting control panel?

9. Website Maintenance Agreement or Content Management System.

Whilst content management systems enable you to update your own website, they are not without their troubles and faults. Additionally, they are not suitable for every situation. Our clients find the benefits of an all-inclusive and far-reaching website maintenance agreement preferable to being able to update their own site. The benefits of one of our website maintenance agreements can be found on our WMA page.

Do you want to take advantage of all the benefits of a Website Maintenance Agreement provided by us? Do you want to be able to update and manage your own content? If you would like to be able to update and manage your own content, how much control do you require?