Following are the standard Ecommerce website development steps. The time it takes us to build a website can vary from 1 week to 4 weeks according to the functionality requested by the clients as well as the quality of the content and information provided by the client.
1. Prototype Development - 3 days
The first step will be for Trimax to develop a prototype of your future website by including the majority of the selected modules in order to allow the client to navigate and test the functionality which will be available through the website. This includes some specific "look and feel" and will demonstrate a very good idea of how the website will function.
2. Content, Look and Feel
Once the prototype has been developed and the client is happy with the functionality, while the client is providing the content for the website, Trimax Solutions is developing the "look and feel" of the website.
For a website to be successful, it must have the following criteria:
- Nice Look and Feel
- Good Content
- Internet Presence - it has to be marketed.
Once you have attracted potential clients to your website, it is very important to have both the Look and Feel of the website as well as interesting and proper content to:
- Attract the potential customer with the Look and Feel
- Keep the potential customer's attention to actually navigate and stay on the website.
The proper combination of both factors will determine the success of your website.
Different templates will be available for you to pick from and customisations can then be made in order to personalise your website.
Content should be supplied in word format, separated into specific website pages. Trimax can provide you a free template to get you started if required. Your content will then be inserted into the different pages of your website. Each page can contain up to 5 images and a full Word page of text. Tables or complicated lists or word structures may incur additional charges
3. Accounts Setup, Role Setup and Email Setup
An administrator user account and well as different security roles will be setup to allow the maintenance of certain areas of the site. An email account will be setup to allow the maintenance of mail users.
4. Final Review
Once the look and feel has been created and the content has been inserted, your site will be published in a secured development area for proofing purposes. This is your opportunity to make final changes to text layout and presentation (i.e. text and heading sizes, text colour, table styles etc.) as well as approving the functionality of the website.
5. Training and Going Live
Training as well as a Training Guide will be available before the site goes life. Once the client has been trained on how to use the different modules, the site will then go live.
6. Support
Trimax offers support to his client through the Help Desk where issues can be raised and associated with a priority according to the importance of the issue being raised.