Building your Site
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Building your siteOn contacting us, we will advise you what will be best way to procede with building your site. Before you do this, you might like to look at some of the material below, which will guide you through the process. Here we will take you through the steps to think about when designing and building your site. The Client SurveyClient input is the foundation upon which successful web sites are built. This survey will help you articulate and identify the overall goals of your site redesign, including specific questions regarding message, audience, content, look and feel, and functionality. Click here to see/download/print the client survey The Creative BriefAnswering the questions on the worksheet will effectively build the skeleton for your creative brief. The information gathered in the discovery process (client survey, research, interviews) will provide you with the answers. Click here to see/download/print a creative brief and here to see a sample. Choosing a templateWhen you sign up with us we will provide you with one of the many excellent templates that are available from Mambo designers. Here you can try out a selection of some of these. Select the template and hey presto. As you can see, your content of your site will be completely separate from the design - which means if you want to change it at any time, you can - without having to rewrite all the pages. You can also
We are putting together a site where you can view various mambo templates - here. When at the site, go to the "template chooser" on the left hand side of the screen and select a design from drop-down list. The thumbnail picture will change to that design. Press select and the design will change. You might also have a look at some of the sites that we have designed Ideas for colour schemesIf you are stuck for some ideas, have a look at the following sites: Here is a good source for further reading about colours. The same site also has a similar section on writing content for the web - here. I am about to trial a system for viewing what is on your PC - let me know if you are interested in trying this out
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