WEB DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST

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1 WEB DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST BEFORE YOU GET STARTED Welcome and thank you for choosing CXGlobals for your web design/development needs. This guide pretends to instruct and guide you into the process of getting ready the materials required to develop your new project. Also, there are several aspects that you need to take into consideration in order to get your project into production. Once these are defined, envisioning your project will be easier for you and everyone involved in your project. 1.SITE MAP The first thing we need from you is to define the site map, which will help us more accurately determine the project s requirements. This is simply the structure in which pages are going to be organized within the site, using sections and categories as needed. This structure will be shown in the site s navigation menu. Site maps are usually visualized as tree diagrams. Take, for instance, the following page breakdown: Home Secondary Nav Careers Solutions Enterprise SMB Partners About Us Blog Contact Us Terms and Conditions SEO Services Responsive web design Clients Case Studies Microsite design Social Media Optimization PPC Management However, they can very easily be represented as a simple hierarchical list. As an example, this is how a site map would be represented: Home - Solutions -- SEO Services

2 -- Microsite Design -- Responsive Web Design -- Social Media Optimization -- PPC Management - Enterprise - SMB - Partners - About Us -- Clients -- Case Studies - Blog - Contact Us - Careers - Terms and conditions Notice how hierarchy is represented with dashes; in this case most pages are first-level sections (one dash) and some are nested below the Solutions section (two dashes). This can also be represented as a tree diagram. Also notice the last few pages are not included in the main navigation menu; instead they are shown as either secondary links in the header (Blog, Contact Us) or in the footer (Careers, Terms and conditions). 2. CONTENT Content is King. Good content is what sets your website apart from the masses and delivers the right message into the hearts and minds of your customers. The success of your website is determined primarily by its content. Ultimately, content wins the wallets of your customers. In order to submit content on any of our projects, we use a tool called Gather Content. This platform helps us administrate an individual section for your sitemap where you ll provide the content for that page. This quick start user guide will help you grasp the basics on submitting content through this platform. 3. DESIGN, GRAPHIC ELEMENTS AND MEDIA At CXGlobals, we are determined to delivering designs that will take advantage of different types of media in order to provide a crisp and up to date appearance to your upcoming site and comply with business and user goals. This is why, we require the following items: Your logo in any of the following formats: [.ai,.pdf,.png] Any brand guidelines / brandbook Graphic elements, pictures (if you do not have these, we will provide them into your project) A list of websites that you like

3 *It is always a good practice to review what your competitors are doing. Feel free to list their websites as well so we can analyze them and find ways to improve your upcoming website. 4. VALUE PROPOSITION A value proposition is a promise of value to be delivered. It s the primary reason a prospect should buy from you. In a nutshell, value proposition is a clear statement that explains how your product solves customers problems or improves their situation (relevancy), delivers specific benefits (quantified value), tells the ideal customer why they should buy from you and not from the competition (unique differentiation). In websites, Value Propositions are displayed in form of different resources such as: Case studies Testimonials White Papers Webinars Newsletter Subscriptions Free Consultations Remember. The idea is to gather visitor s information. Offer them something in exchange! 5. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITIES Your website has a great potential to become a digital source of information. Please check any sections and features that will entail any special functionality that goes beyond a simple page with text and images. For example: Blog News section Event calendar Product catalog Online store Image galleries Downloadable files Forms other than the basic contact form Multi language functionality Password protection User registration / Login functions CRM Integration If by any chance your desired feature is not listed, make sure to let your Web Dev Manager.

4 6. ABOUT FEEDBACK Throughout your project, you will have the chance to review the design and provide feedback on the visual layout of the side through InvisionApp, a platform design to record the visual prototype of your site and its feedback exactly where you d like to provide it. *Feedback always needs to be submitted through InvisionApp. No submissions are received in order to keep the flow of the process. 7. NEXT STEPS With the above information we will be able to create a detailed Scope of Work (SOW) and fixed bid, which once agreed upon and signed will mark the official start of the project. Once the sow is signed, we will proceed with the project kickoff and begin gathering information and materials from you to begin working on the site s content, structure and design.

5 SUMMARY What we need to get your project going? Sitemap Content Design and Graphic Elements To define additional features Value Proposition F.A.Q S Q: What if I want to use my current website s sitemap and content? A: You most definitely can! Thanks to WordPress, content changes are handled very smoothly so throughout the project, content changes can be performed. Q: Can I include videos in my project? A: Absolutely! We recommend using an online streaming service to host them and then, we can implement them on the final product of your website. Youtube and Vimeo are great solutions to host videos. Q: Who will be hosting my website? A: Currently we do not provide hosting services. However, we are able to advise you in what is the best option based on what you will be having us build. Don t hesitate on let your Web Dev Manager know. Q: What do you need from me in order to quote a project? A: An estimated number of total pages (this can be based on the sitemap), a list with any additional features you might require, and any special requirements that you feel will help us provide a more accurate quote