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Understanding Your Client's Needs

Category: Web Design Tips

All too often what your client wants clashes with what he or she needs. This must be ironed-out during the planning stage of your project way before a single script is written. Never take this issue lightly.

In our experience at Proweaver, there was a project of which we had wasted so many programming hours in following the client's specifications who later realized that it wasn't what he needed. It was a disaster. We assumed full responsibility and did a complete turnaround to finish the project.

So at the initial stages, you need to make certain that both parties understand the ultimate objective of the project. Yes, the customer may be wrong at times but when it's post-planning stage, the customer is always right.

Custom web design is indeed tricky because though we ought to follow our client's specifications, it is extremely important to discuss first with the client the soundness of his or her ideas. Always put the client's best interest forward in your discussion to give you more bargaining power in case you want some changes in the plan.

Basic Page Structure

Category: Web Design Tips

Custom web designing is uniquely challenging because the designer needs to unravel the labyrinth in what the project's stakeholders exactly want. Moreover, what the client wants may not be what the client needs. At Proweaver, our professional designers will not only give their inputs but they will also strongly advise against a design direction which is not in the best interest of our clients.

When we were new in the business, we thought of producing spectacular designs with imposing graphics. Along the way, however, we had an epiphany—a website is no more than a piece of document. It basically serves to provide information to the viewer.

Proweaver's open secret in custom web design is this: follow the flow in how everybody reads a document—TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT. The most important content should be at the top, flowing from left to right. The same goes with the graphics.

Proweaver Updates

Posted: March 27, 2009

Special Promo - FREE Brochure Design! In addition to our existing offers, brochure design is now packaged in our custom web design service for the same price of $600. This is in line with our mission to help every small business grow amidst the prevailing economic conditions. When Wall Street tumbles, the small business perseveres. No recession or even a depression can put down the sheer determination and spririt of every small business owner.

Posted: March 3, 2009

Welcome to the amazing world of Ruby on Rails! The magic of Ruby on Rails did not escape the eyes of Proweaver's core development team. Our web development repertoire now includes Ruby on Rails's agile development framework. For time-sensitive, mission-critical applications, Proweaver together with Ruby on Rails is the right choice.

Posted: Sept. 30, 2008

Proweaver website redesigned. The web design team at Proweaver has launched the new design of its website. The new look is in line with our thrust towards a simple, direct-to-the-point, and content-rich Proweaver website. The new design is consistent with HTML and CSS standards. The new website runs on an instance of Amazon EC2.

News Resources

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The Sorry Gap Between Shipping Tech and Customer Expectations
E-Commerce Times — 03/18/09

Have you shopped online in the past month? Week? Day? If you are like a majority of the American population, you likely answered yes to one, if not all, of those questions. Consumers appreciate the ease and convenience that online retail offers, but with this convenience often comes disappointment during the shipping process. Despite the down economy, e-commerce and online retail continues to be a viable platform for sales. However, as everyday technology continues to innovate, consumers' expectations of the online shopping experience continue to rise. As such, the expectations of the e-commerce shipping process rise as well.... more»