Web design process by Dylan Albertazzi

Initial meeting §

• Stress the value of a high-quality website.
• Most clients are busy people and overhauling their website is a chore.
• Stress: The effort we put into our website directly affects the bottomline of the business.
• Initial meeting goals:
  • Understand the purpose of the website
  • Special needs of the website
  • What pages we need to make
  • Vibe of the website
  • Collaborate on the Hi-Five Conversion Formula
• Ask the golden question: When someone comes to your website, what do you want them to do?
  • Three uses of a website:
    • Buy
    • Schedule and appointment
    • Subscribe
• Come to the meeting prepared with three different websites of similar businesses in their space. Then let them go through what they do and don’t want in the sites.
• Keep all meeting notes in a shared Google Drive with the client.

Design §

• Use Figma to create an initial design of the website.
• Only when both you and the client are in love with the mockups will you only move on to developing.

Development §

• All your client wants is an awesome website. They don’t care how you get there.
• For most projects: Wix
• For custom: React and Tailwind CSS for frontend and AWS Amplify for backend
• After building, test it thoroughly.
• Demo the website to the client.
• Do necessary changes.
• Once both of you are happy, deploy.

Payment §

• Reference: Clock Work by Mike Michalowicz
• Give 15% discount if they are willing to pay upfront. Just add 15% to what you want in the beginning.

References §