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Step 1 of the 9 step web creation. Getting the brief (and not boxers).
All jobs start with a brief, and all good jobs start with a good brief. So let’s go over some questions you can think about when talking to the new potential client.
Some useful questions:
- Website for a new business? Refresh?
- What is the purpose?
- What would you like to do with it?
- What is your product? What does it do?
- Inspirations?
- Competitors? How are you different?
- Audience? Who’s a good customer? Who’s an ACTUAL customer?
- Deadline?
- Describe your company?
Some extra questions
- Have you registered the domain?
- How are your emails set up?
- What type of site? landing? one page? multi? ecommerce?
- Do you have an idea of what to put in the navigation menu, or what pages?
- Do you have the text content? Do you need copywriting?
- Do you have images? Do you need to hire a photographer? would stock images work?
- Do you have a brand set up?
- Will you be updating content regularly? Will it be fairly regular? Do you need a maintenance package?
That’s a lot of questions haha.
Do you have any more important questions that I missed? Anything to add? Anything else you’d like to hear me cover? Please let me know in the comments!
News & articles
Volkswagon has a new logo
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/new-volkswagen-logo
Accuracy in SEO
https://searchengineland.com/content-accuracy-is-not-a-ranking-factor-321727
Design trends in mobile
https://design4users.com/ui-design-trends-web-mobile/
Resources
FreeFrontend is pretty cool
https://freefrontend.com/
Especially this one.
https://freefrontend.com/css-triangle-backgrounds/
The Caniuse for mail.
https://www.caniemail.com/
(I hate outlook)
Free fonts yo.
https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/best-free-fonts-for-designers-1233380
Title
“Simple Design” by Breaking Benjamin (from their album “We Are Not Alone”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUt2vVRPHY
