1. Business analysis

Carefully examine the operation of your business, its goals, its operating methods and its culture.
The aim is to develop a deep understanding of your business so that a site can created that effectively meets your business needs.
In our experience this is the most vital step of all.

2. Web site construction

Parkville Designs will create a graphical style that projects your corporate image and culture.

We design the structure of the site so that it reflects the nature of your business and allows visitors to quickly find what they need.

We create the web page contents. This includes detailed information about your business and your products. They make it possible for your customers to inform themselves about your offerings, to place orders, track the order fulfillment and request more information.  Our emphasis is on providing real. useful content that goes well beyond the usual glossy brochure.

3. Name registration

We register the chosen name of your web site on the Internet. It is vitally important to reserve a name that represents your business. The demand for names is very high and some companies are paying high prices to get the names of their choice. Your name will then be registered with what is called a registra. The registra's (godaddy.com, networksolutions.com, etc..) main responsibility is to reserve your domain name and point that name to a computer on the internet where your website resides

4. Web host registration

Parkville Designs works with Kansas City based hosting companies.

What is hosting?

Web Hosting: Web hosting is a service that provides Internet users with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible via the web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center.

5. Electronic mail

Parkville Designs set up e-mail or transfers accounts which are already in place

6. Testing

We thoroughly test the web site for accuracy, speed, completeness and ease of use.

7. Installation and training

We make sure that the right software is installed on your premises and train you to use it. We also help you to adapt your business practices so that you can make optimum use of the Internet as a business tool.

8. Registration with search engines

We register your site with up to 30 major search engines and test to make sure that your web site is easily found.

9. Launch of your web site.

For your web site to be effective it must become known to your target market. We will help you to design a campaign to reach your customers and potential customers. We can also help you with the design of your stationary, such as letter heads, business cards, brochures, etc so that they reflect your presence on the Internet

10. Maintenance

Your site will, from time to time, need to be updated and enhanced to cope with changing business conditions. We can quickly make changes such as new product offerings and price changes.

11. Reporting

We will, on a monthly basis, report to you the number of visitors to your web site, the areas of the web site they access, as well as giving some information about where they come from.

12. Review

At intervals we will review the operation of your web site and advise you of new opportunities that are offered by changing technologies.