Building a new website is an exciting step for any business, nonprofit, or personal brand. However, if you’ve never gone through the process before, it can also feel a bit overwhelming. Let’s say you want to build a website for your relationship consulting business, and you also want to sell your new book. A basic website likely won’t be enough. Instead, you’ll need a more complex site with a booking system, custom layout, and ecommerce capabilities. You may also want to offer memberships for exclusive content.
Working with a developer makes this process much easier, but you’ll still want to be informed on what’s happening behind the scenes. Here at Magna Technology, we make WordPress development smooth, strategic, and stress-free by keeping you informed at every stage. This approach allows ample opportunities for revisions, ensuring the final result aligns perfectly with your vision and expectations.
Whether you’re launching your first website or replacing an outdated one, here’s what you can expect when building a new WordPress website with a professional team like ours.
Discovery and Planning: Understanding Your Goals
Before we dive into design or code, we take the time to understand who you are, what you do, and what your website needs to accomplish. This discovery phase helps shape the structure, features, and visual approach of your future website.
Some of the things we’ll discuss are your business goals and target audience, your preferred styles or brand identity, your biggest competitors, and your content strategy and SEO goals. We’ll also want to know what key pages, features, and functionalities you are hoping to have. All of this gives us a clear picture as to what you want and what we need to do to get you there, not just today, but as you grow.
Sitemap and Wireframes: Laying the Foundation
With the right information in hand, our team will create a detailed sitemap, which is a list of pages your website will include. If needed, we’ll also create a wireframe, which is the basic layouts of the key pages on your site. This part of the process ensures that your site is user-friendly and organized in a way that makes sense to both visitors and search engines.
You’ll be able to review and approve the structure before we start designing anything. We encourage you to envision yourself as a user and follow the pages to ensure they make sense. For example, the sitemap might show top-level pages like Home, About Me, Appointments, and Blog. A user who wants to schedule an appointment should be able to click on Appointments and be brought to a convenient booking system.
Design: Bringing Your Brand to Life
Once the structure is mapped out, the visual design begins. Our designers create a custom WordPress theme or adapt one to fit your brand perfectly, depending on your budget and your goals. Throughout this process, you’ll get the chance to review your homepage and interior page mockups, provide feedback and request revisions, and approve the final look and feel before development begins. Design is collaborative, so you can count on our team to make sure the end result reflects your unique brand and voice.
Development: Turning Design Into a Live Site
Now it’s time for the behind-the-scenes magic. Our developers take your approved design and build it on WordPress, creating a responsive, fast, and secure website. During this phase, we code your custom theme or integrate your design, add functionality like contact forms and image galleries, optimize the site for speed, SEO, and accessibility, and ensure mobile responsiveness on all devices. This is where the structure and design come together as a working site. Our team is happy to provide updates whenever you want them!
Content Upload and Review
Once the site is built, we’ll help you upload and format your content, whether that’s written copy, images, videos, or downloadable resources. We’ll also walk through each page to make sure everything looks and functions exactly how you want it to. You’ll have the chance to test the site on different devices, review page layouts and interactive features, and request final tweaks all before launch.
Launch and Training
Once everything is approved, it’s time to go live! We’ll handle the technical aspects of launching your site, including domain connection and hosting setup, final speed and SEO checks, and submitting your site to search engines. We can also set you up as an admin for your site so that you can manage blogs, images, and other simple changes down the road.
Ongoing Support and Maintenance
Your website is live, but we don’t disappear. Magna Technology offers ongoing support, maintenance, and updates so your WordPress site stays secure, fast, and up to date. Whether you need help adding features, troubleshooting a plugin, or scaling your site as your business grows, we’ve got your back. We are a white glove service that caters to our clients.
Ready to Build Something Great?
A WordPress website should be more than just a digital brochure—it should be a powerful tool that helps you grow your business, connect with customers, and stand out online. At Magna Technology, we make that happen with clarity, creativity, and technical know-how. Contact us today at 617-249-0539 for a consultation.