Website Process

Phases and Approach

DynamiX plans each new site to resonate with your audience and clarify why you are the best fit. We leverage our exclusive Octane™ software to create a solution that's unparalleled in our space, and handle all heavy lifting from start to finish for your team.

Strategy & Planning

3-5 Weeks

This sets the stage for a transformative experience. Here's where we ask all the questions and get to know the business as well as you know yourself.

Design & Experience

6-8 Weeks

Here's where initial concepts become a unified vision, as our team works with the your team to differentiate the site from others in the space.

Development & Optimization

6-10 Weeks

This involves coding the design, migrating content, UX, and ensuring the site loads fast and beautifully on all devices.

Content & Launch

Concurrent to Development

This involves migrating all current site content, refactoring presentation and creating redirects for search engines.

Strategy & Planning

Setting the Stage for Success

Content Review

Our first step is creating a core content review, focused on the company's goals and how the current site aligns. In particular we look for how the flow, structure and experience could improve. This report is used to help inform the design and development process, focusing on the customer's stated KPIs. Note that we do not create new content.

Creative Brief

Designed to encourage outside the box thinking, our Creative Brief process dives into the why behind what the client offers, how they offer it and customer perceptions of their brand. This informs the design and development process and helps us find the core differentiators present in every great business.

Market Audit

Understanding the marketplace and customer expectations is an essential step for creating a truly differentiated digital strategy and website experience.

Asset Collection

Even the best companies often have a somewhat disjointed collection of materials. Here, we help that customer to create a single, unified source of truth for their brand that will help inform all of their future marketing, not just the site experience.

Branding Guide

Once all assets are in hand, our team crafts an internal branding guide that informs the aesthetic moving forward, including color scheme, fonts and logos and general approach and personality for the brand and its products or services.

Design & User Experience

Showcasing What Makes the Business Special

Concept Stage

Our first phase, this internal concepting stage focuses on the structure of the page, the placement of content, video and imagery and what core aspects of your business need to be clearly defined for the audience.

Home Page Design

Once the initial concept is set, our team creates the vision for the site using real colors, branding and photography/videography to capture the essence of the brand. In this stage we'll use faux copy where appropriate to set the stage without being bogged down by text that can easily be altered "in production."

Interior Design

Moving from the core homepage experience to the secondary pages allows the design aesthetic to grow, while ensuring all important pages have the unique touches necessary to create a high-performing experience.

Kitchen Sink

Once the entire site has been designed visually including all relevant layouts, these are combined into a "Kitchen Sink" page for easy viewing. Once this set of capabilities has customer approval, we conclude design and move into development.

Development & Optimization

Bringing Design Into Reality

Kitchen Sink Development

Bridging the gap between design and reality is the kitchen sink page, designed to feature all of the unique layouts and capabilities that the site will have at launch.

Mobile & Browser Optimization

Once the sink has been created and all layouts are fully baked, our team creates a full mobile and browser sweep to ensure the absolute most engaging and usable experience for visitors, regardless of how they find the website.

Speed Optimization

At this point, our team is ensuring that all optimizations are fully realized and the site is as fast as humanly (inhumanly?) possible for visitors, with a primary focus on mobile experiences and search engines.

SEO & Architecture Review

This final phase involves a thorough review of how all content appears to search engines and customers alike, ensuring the site performs beautifully and has the best opportunity to rank well for searches.

Content Migration & Launch

Content Migration

In this stage, we'll carry over all relevant content that should stay relatively intact, as well as structure 301 redirects where appropriate for search engines.

New Content Integration

During this part of the process, our team works to integrate any new content and concepts that did not appear within the previous site experience.

Final Review & Launch

The site is now ready to go pending approval of the client and your team. As a fun side note, our software is designed to allow the client to launch their own site when it's ready!

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