THE DESIGN PROCESS
What to expect...
What to expect...
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#1. CHECK THE QUEUE FOR AN AVAILABLE DATE
Before placing your custom blog design order, please make sure to check the queue/wait list for available start dates. If you are unsure, please feel free to email me and I will be more than happy to give you a list of available dates before placing your order. Dates will not be reserved unless an order form has been completed. #2. SUBMIT YOUR ORDER & PAYMENT
Place an order by filling out and submitting the custom blog design order form linked on the site. Your order form will provide me {your designer} the information necessary to create a custom design you’ll love. Please be as detailed as possible when answering the questions on the form. If you're unsure about what you want for your design, do NOT worry! I take great pride in my ability to research, listen, and brainstorm to create a custom design made just for you. At the end of the order form, please make sure to complete the order form by submitting your payment. A payment in full is required to secure your spot in the queue. I accept all major credit cards or you may choose to pay using PayPal. You may also choose Paypal financing to pay for your custom blog design. When checking out with Paypal, choose Paypal credit and apply for financing to make your purchase. Click the link below to find out more about Paypal financing. #3. ORDER CONFIRMATION
Once your order is submitted, you will receive a reply within 1-2 days (please check your SPAM folder if you do not receive it within that time frame) to confirm that your order was received. Our reply will include an estimated start date for your project and queue wait instructions. #4. PHONE CONFERENCE
A couple of days before your design week is scheduled, I will contact you by email to schedule a phone conference to go over the direction of your design. I find that speaking over the phone helps to ensure that I understand what you want so I know what direction to take during the creative process. I will work around your time schedule and the conversations should take no longer than about 30 minutes to 1 hour. Non US residents will need to schedule an alternative chat conference, either by live video or instant messaging through Facebook chat or Google + hangouts. During the phone conference, I will briefly review your design order form and ask you a few questions to help me understand what you want. This is not an interview process or a long series of questions, just a friendly chat and brainstorm to get us moving in the right direction. At this time, I will also request your image hosting account info (username/password) to be prepared to host the images for your design on your own account. |
#5. THE DESIGN PHASE
DESIGN CONCEPT/MOOD BOARD: I will use all of the information gathered from your order form and phone conference notes to put together a design concept or mood board. The concept design/mood board will help to ensure that I am headed in the right direction with your design. The mood board will show the proposed colors, fonts, patterns and the general style for your design and will be tweaked until you are happy with the direction. TEST SITE: Once the concept design/mood board is approved, I will create a live preview of your proposed design on a test site. The link to the preview site will be emailed to you as soon as it is ready. Because your feedback plays such an important part in creating a design you will love, there will usually be a quick succession of emails taking place while your test site is being created. Please check your email frequently to help speed this process along. REVISIONS: Once your test site has been put together, I will gladly provide up to three rounds of revisions on your design. After reviewing the test site, you will send me a list of changes/tweaks you’d like made (round 1). I will make those changes and then have you review the test site again. You’ll again provide another list of changes/revisions (round 2). If needed, you’ll repeat this process one more time to complete the 3rd round. Three rounds is usually sufficient to get your design looking just right. If additional rounds are requested, you will be billed at $50/hour. #6. INSTALLATION
Before installation you will be asked to add me to your blog as a blog author with admin access. I will send you a PDf file with instructions on how to do this. This allows me to access your blog template without needing your username and password. I will remove myself from your blog within 24 hours after your new design has been installed. Please note that major revisions will not be made to your blog after it has been installed, so please be sure you are 100% happy with your design before you give the okay to install. Installation generally only takes a few hours. During installation I ask that you please not make any changes to your site. #7. YOUR DESIGN FILES
Once your design has been installed onto your site, I will email you a zipped file containing all of your design images. Make sure to keep save the file and back it up. I will not save design files and images, so it is important that you keep your images backed up. You may use these images as you wish to brand products and other online content! #8. POST INSTALLATION
After installation I ask that you take a few days to settle into your new design. I will be happy to provide up to one hour of free post-install support to go over any basic trouble-shooting questions you may have as you settle into your design (expires 30 days from installation date). For further or more complex technical support, you’ll need to purchase my post install support package found on the Blog Add-On Page. |
