Onboarding - Website Development & Design Questions

Describe your target audience.

What is the purpose of the website?

What are your corporate core values and how do you express them to your visitors?

What makes you different from your competitors?

Describe the style of the website you want.

Do you have specific company colors that need to be used?

Can you provide the HEX or RGB values for your company colors?

Do you have any other materials that the site needs to match with in some way (brochures, press materials, etc.)?

What do you like most about your current website?

What are your top 3 frustrations with your current website?

Are there any websites with designs that you like?

Name the 3 things that are most important in the design of your new website.

Where is your website hosted?

Do you have full access?

Yes

No

Can you provide usernames and passwords?

Who or how will you be managing website upkeep?

Does your current web host meet all your new website’s needs (space, bandwidth, databases, etc.)?

Do you plan on or need to move to a new host provider?

Yes

No

Do you already have a domain you plan to use?

Do you have a logo you plan to use or will one need to be created?

Do you have a tagline you wish to use or do you need help creating one for your site?

Do you have a completed site architecture for the new website or will this be part of the scope of work?

How many pages will the finished website be (estimated)?

Do you have any page wireframes ready or will those need to be produced as part of the scope of work?

Do you have the content for the website or will content creation be a part of the scope of work?

How many pages of content will need to be developed?

Do you or your team need training for making website updates, content publishing guidelines, etc.?

Do you have any specific photos you plan to use?

Will we need to find and/or create any images for the website?

Will video or audio be a part of the new website?

Do you require online chat features?

Do you have any other media or PDF documents that need to be incorporated, or will any need to be created?

Will these need to be optimized for search?

Will your visitors require any special needs (i.e., screen reader ready, larger fonts)?

Do you need multi-language support?

Will you need a shopping cart system for e-commerce?

Yes

No

Do you have a system you already use?

Does your site need a blog or a forum?

Will users need to log in to your site for any reason?

Do you need any password-protected areas?

Yes

No

If so, What kind of content will be put behind password-protected areas?

How many web forms does your new site need?

Will there be any third-party applications that will need to be integrated?

Will you need an events calendar feature?

Do you have any subscription services?

Do you use a third party for any part of subscription content delivery and/or payment?

Do you need an internal site search feature?

Do you use web analytics software?

What is your time frame for total project completion?