Comments on: What You Need to Know Before You Begin : Questions to Ask Potential Clients Before Starting a Web Design Project http://www.maverickconceptions.com/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/ Brenda you know that you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:35:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Damon http://www.maverickconceptions.com/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-20 Damon Thu, 08 May 2008 19:55:39 +0000 http://lwallenstein.poweredbygeek.net/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-20 @ eCentral Marketing, That question is more or less listed: Optional Question for Static Web Site Designs: Are there any special components you need in your site? Contact Form? Shopping Cart? List of store locations? Will there be any dynamic components to the site? Anything that relies on a database? Things like contact forms and shopping carts seem abundant on any web site. With that in mind, a lot of customers think it is a quick and easy thing and forget to mention it. Anything dealing with “processing” (sending something to a database or email address) requires scripting knowledge and specific machine resources to complete. This may dictate what server platform you can host on as well as what knowledge the web designer will require. There are third party options to host these things off your web site, but most have a monthly cost associated with them. Finding out for your client if this is an expected portion of the project, determining if you have the skills or solutions available and clearing up any costs or requirements up front saves time and headaches down the road. @ eCentral Marketing,

That question is more or less listed:

Optional Question for Static Web Site Designs: Are there any special components you need in your site? Contact Form? Shopping Cart? List of store locations?
Will there be any dynamic components to the site? Anything that relies on a database? Things like contact forms and shopping carts seem abundant on any web site. With that in mind, a lot of customers think it is a quick and easy thing and forget to mention it. Anything dealing with “processing” (sending something to a database or email address) requires scripting knowledge and specific machine resources to complete. This may dictate what server platform you can host on as well as what knowledge the web designer will require. There are third party options to host these things off your web site, but most have a monthly cost associated with them. Finding out for your client if this is an expected portion of the project, determining if you have the skills or solutions available and clearing up any costs or requirements up front saves time and headaches down the road.

]]> By: eCentral Marketing http://www.maverickconceptions.com/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-19 eCentral Marketing Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:19:50 +0000 http://lwallenstein.poweredbygeek.net/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-19 Great tips. I would add one question to the list though. Ask the client if they know of specific elements they want in the site. Like a shopping cart or stuff like that. Great tips. I would add one question to the list though. Ask the client if they know of specific elements they want in the site. Like a shopping cart or stuff like that.

]]> By: Sean http://www.maverickconceptions.com/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-18 Sean Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:54:16 +0000 http://lwallenstein.poweredbygeek.net/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-18 Great article what everyone needs to read if they're just starting out or need a refresher. Webmasters will eat this stuff up. Thanks for the insight. Great article what everyone needs to read if they’re just starting out or need a refresher. Webmasters will eat this stuff up. Thanks for the insight.

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]]> By: The Talented Mr Twitter at MINGER.NET - The Long Tail of Web 2.0 http://www.maverickconceptions.com/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-16 The Talented Mr Twitter at MINGER.NET - The Long Tail of Web 2.0 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:06:06 +0000 http://lwallenstein.poweredbygeek.net/2006/12/04/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-begin-questions-to-ask-potential-clients-before-starting-a-web-design-project/#comment-16 [...] Perhaps by virtue of its origins - SF based with somewhat prominent founders — and social networking and chatroom features, Twitter draws a slice of internet cognoscenti early adopters. Examples of solid but not flashy webizens I’ve seen are Christine Davis, Steve Smith, Francis Berriman, Lynn Wallenstein, and Stowe Boyd. Yesterday I saw Yan of Planyplus and Emily Chang. Just now, I see the artistic Johanna McDonald. This is just an arbitrary bunch of people I picked out to give you a flavor of the subscribers. Think tribe.net. (I hope these people don’t mind being “outed” this way. I’ll put the genie back in the bottle if you ask nicely.) [...] [...] Perhaps by virtue of its origins - SF based with somewhat prominent founders — and social networking and chatroom features, Twitter draws a slice of internet cognoscenti early adopters. Examples of solid but not flashy webizens I’ve seen are Christine Davis, Steve Smith, Francis Berriman, Lynn Wallenstein, and Stowe Boyd. Yesterday I saw Yan of Planyplus and Emily Chang. Just now, I see the artistic Johanna McDonald. This is just an arbitrary bunch of people I picked out to give you a flavor of the subscribers. Think tribe.net. (I hope these people don’t mind being “outed” this way. I’ll put the genie back in the bottle if you ask nicely.) [...]

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