When you login to the OptimizeMy.com website, you will automatically create a client account and gain access to a client portal unique to your organization.
This portal is unique for every organization, and will contain all relevant forms, questionaires and upload proceedures. You will be able to view the progress of your job simply by visiting the portal at any time. There is no obligation associated with setting up a Client Portal - you may do so at any time without any sort of financial or workorder commitment. Click Here to Login and go directly to the Websites tab in your Client Portal when you are ready to proceed.
After you decide to use Optimizemy.Com for your website development, choose a hosting package that your organization is comfortable with. We have 3 hosting packages available depending on the level of involvement you want from us after your new website is launched. They are all described in detail on our Rates and Packages page.
Once you have selected your package, we'll ask you to answer a few questions in a creative brief that helps us understand you, your organization, and your website preferences.
This brief is specifically designed to help us narrow in on the ideal direction for your organization. The Optimizemy.com website creative brief will guide you through the various technological functions that are available, and ask you to select and prioritize the pages and information you would like presented on your website.
We just like to get a good starting place to begin your project from and this brief helps us do exactly this.
When you have completed the website brief in your client portal, click the "submit" button at the bottom of the form. Within 24-48 hours we will generate an invoice and send to you for payment.
Receipt of deposit initiates the job on our end, at which time a project coordinator will be assigned directly to your organization. It generally takes approximately 3 - 6 weeks from the completion of Step 5 to a finished, live site. Terms are always 65% up front, and 35% upon completion. No fees are refundable.
Although you will have full control of the copy, to edit, add or delete as you see fit, once the website is live, we like to set things up for you the first time as the process usually uncovers some design issues that will need to be solved on our end before the site can go live.
If you have any content you wish to have included such as pictures, price lists, videos, logo's etc - we request that all this information be supplied to your project manager prior to the start of your project.
With our Content Management System (CMS) it is very easy to keep dynamic control of your website. Since we utilize one of the industries most feature rich CMS systems - there can be a lot to learn should you wish to take control completely of your project and not have OptimizeMy.com handle updates in the future. We have made it even easier by creating a set of short training videos for each of the projects we take on.
These training videos will provide comprehensive and clear instruction on all the primary managment tools available to you, including how to change and edit content, size and insert photos, add events, schedule content, manage forums, blogs and much more.
Publishing your organizations new site on the web should not be considered an end point of this process, but a beginning. There is a difference between taking a website "live" and keeping it "living". Make sure you're maintaining news, blog, events and other up-datable elements, We are here to help you every step of the way. In the future when you desire a new design - we can do that for you as well - without the need to change the content.