The web design business process is what happens between the web designer and the client they are serving.<\/p>\n
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The following article targets two groups of people:<\/p>\n
When first approached by someone looking to get a web site built, the first thing you need to do is figure some details about the website. Things like:<\/p>\n
These basic questions can have a big impact on how you build the site, the budget and the skills you will need as a web designer\/consultant to complete the job.<\/p>\n
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To make my life easier, I’ve put together a quick to fill out web design quote form<\/a> for clients – it saves a lot of time.<\/p>\n It is important that you keep forms like this as short as possible. Long forms usually means you will asking questions that many clients will simply not have the answer too … this can be very frustrating for people. And you don’t want to start asking nerd-details like: ‘Do you need PHP?’<\/p>\n … I can guarantee that most clients will not know PHP<\/a> from CSS<\/a>!<\/p>\n Side note:<\/strong><\/p>\n That reminds me of something; don’t try to sell your web design skills or a website based on CSS or some other nerd centric topic. Most clients will not care, because they will have no idea what you are talking about! <\/p>\n Instead, keep it high level: if you want to stress that you are using CSS, just say that you build websites using modern methods that help keep cost low.<\/p>\n Back to the discussion …<\/p>\n Once we have the above information, this is how we typically proceed:<\/strong><\/p>\n