How Long a Web Design Project Usually Takes
On average a new website takes around 6-12 weeks from the first conversation to launch. Knowing what to expect at each stage can help prevent delays and ensure the project runs smoothly.
Brief and Discovery
The initial phase of a website design project, the brief and discovery, will typically take around 1-2 weeks. This is where you will explain your business, your target audience, the number of pages your website will require and any other websites that you like. The more information that you can provide in the initial brief the better and the quicker the design and build of your website will be.
Design Concepts
Your web designer Exeter will usually present you with 1-2 design concepts within 1-2 weeks of you agreeing to your brief. The designer needs to receive your feedback as quickly as possible, ideally in the form of a few pages of comments that summarise your thoughts, rather than a stream of comments over several days. Each round of amends usually takes 3-5 days.
Feedback and Amends
For the design to be finalised, allow for two rounds of amendments, each taking approximately 3-5 days. Remember that the more detailed your feedback is the better, i.e. ‘make it pop more’ is a time consuming comment, whilst ‘move logo to the left and increase font size’ is a simple change to make.
Build and Development
The build from approved design to launch of a small website for a business typically takes 2-4 weeks.
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Content Population
The most common point for a project to go wrong is when it comes to putting the content into the new website. If you have all of your text, images and documents ready before the build starts then this will only add a few days to the end of the project. However, if you leave it until the build is underway then it can add weeks to the average time a web design project takes to complete.
Testing and Launch
This stage of web design in Exeter for new websites for small businesses typically takes 3 to 5 weeks to complete and covers a number of key areas, such as ensuring that your new website looks correct on mobile devices, checking the page speed of your new website and ensuring that all forms on your website are working correctly, plus checking that your new website is fully compliant with all current legislation, such as ensuring that a cookie consent message is displayed on your website, along with ensuring that your website contains the relevant privacy notices.
Having all your content ready before the build begins will save you weeks off the average time a web design project takes to complete.