To establish a fundamental starting point, help us understand your vision and define the purpose of your site, and create a clear understanding of what you want, we begin each project consultation with two basic questions:

• "What is the purpose of the site?"
• "Who would be the ideal visitor to your site?"

Answering these questions and using our Planning a Web Site document will help refine some other items.

After we have a full understanding of your needs, we'll produce a detailed project proposal and agreement that we'll submit to you. This document will:

1. Define the description and scope of work for the project.
2. Provide a detailed list of features.
3. Propose a time scale for completion.

After the proposal and agreement document has been signed off by the client, we will begin work on the project. The development cycle is structured in three main stages that are also client checkpoints, as follows:

• Scaffold or Alpha Site
• Beta or Pre-Release Site
• Final or Production site.

The client will review the site at each one of these stages and the revisions for each of these three stages will consists of one pass per stage. After each step, you will review and approve revisions. During this period, we buy your domain name and during the final stage, set up your Web site.

After your site is released, we will submit your new domain name to the major search engines.