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We have a call to meet and talk about where your online presence is at and where you want to take it.

The first step is we need to thoroughly understand your business, your business goals, and your customers' expectations and behaviours. And ultimately, how your website factors into all of it. We’ll also look at the competitive landscape to establish context and benchmarks for how your site should function, and then improve on that.

This stage will give us the foundation for moving forward with just the right recommendations for the design and development of your new responsive website.

Once we are up to speed with your brand and goals, we’ll set to work creating the user interface.

We start by reviewing your existing materials like your website, brand guidelines, and whatever else you have so we can get an idea of where we need to go.

We then design a Style Guide and UI Kit which lays the foundation for the rest of the design. Once the initial styles like fonts and colours are determined, we’ll create high-fidelity comps that show what the final designs will look like on desktop, tablet, and smartphone screen sizes, providing up to two rounds of revisions on the design.

Accessibility is worked into the project at this phase as well to make sure everything is navigable by keyboard, there are focus states, and good contrast, among other features.

We use a design tool called Figma which allows you to see and comment on specific areas in the design so you're always kept apprised of the progress.

Once you’ve approved the design, we’ll start building the website using the DotNetNuke (DNN) open source Content Management System and a Structured Content module. Various third party integration (newsletter templates, Form Builder modules, etc) will also be set up based on the needs and scope.

Part of the development process is creating the theme as well as the various Structured Content apps which will power the website. These apps are custom designed and built for your website so they can be used in various ways to empower your Content Editors for future updates. At this time, we also develop the accessibility features that were started in the design process as well as performance optimizations at the page level.

You will be able to see progress as it's happening in real time on a staging website that is only known to your organization.

After content is populated on the site, we integrate the new designs with your current theme in a development environment. Then our team will test the site across different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge) and devices (iOS and Android mobile phone and tablets). Any bugs that arise from this testing will be fixed prior to launch.

During this phase, we also review accessibility and perform any testing and adjustments that are needed.

Training sessions will be provided along with instructional videos that can be viewed on-demand. We create short and easy-to-understand videos using Loom directly on your website so learning how to maintain the website couldn't be easier.

Once you've approved the website for launch, we will assist with directing the domain name over to the new website.

We perform post-launch tests to make sure the new website is working as expected.