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At Leading Media we provide a cost effective business solutions.
While anyone can build you a web page, we specialize in solutions.
We offer the following advantages over the typical web design firm.
We operate and maintain our own servers and offer hosting for our clients.
By operating our own servers, we are able to cost-effectively deliver custom solutions. If you need to run a specialized program or platform, we can setup a server for you with the software you want...at a reasonable price. The typical web designer can't offer this service at a reasonable cost because they must pay a hosting company to setup and configure the server. We eliminate the middle man.
We have specialized professionals working on different aspects of your site. In order to have a successful web site, three areas need to be considered...
Graphic design - layout, Programming, and Marketing.
Concept & Development Phase
We create a Concept and Development for our clients. This insures that we have a complete understanding of the project requirements and scope before we begin. It means that you are always included in the creative process of designing your site, and that you get exactly what you desire.
A Concept and Development package includes …
• Research study of site's main audience, cater the design of the site to them
• Full detail of forms and site features, how they interoperate
• Photoshop layouts with fonts, colors, tables
• Preview area website for approval
Structure Report Determining …
• Site architecture
• Goals for site
• Site audience
• Conceptualized site graphics and visual theme
• Research available domain names
• Set up appointments for photography
• Discussed initial ideas for Phase II dynamic functionality
• Sign off on hosting and setting up domain names
• Determine copywriting, logo design needs
You will then be able to approve and make changes to all elements of your Concept and Development package. With the C & D process you get a complete blueprint of your website that ensures your happiness throughout the project, ensures that you stay informed, and makes the building of your site efficient and smooth.
Site Build
With the Concept and Development package completed, the building of your site will be smooth and easy. You can check on the progress of your site build at anytime in our client area. You will also be able to make changes, approve, and sign off on your website during this phase at many milestone points. During the site build process we will ...
• Collect all necessary content from you, text, images, multimedia files.
• Create any needed content using your input, copywriting, logo design, additional graphic design elements.
• Build a template and site architecture, -- a skeleton, -- of your site's design layout pages to work from.
• Create and build your database.
• Write needed scripts and custom programming for your site.
• Build each page and section of your website.
• Submit everything that has been completed to you for changes and approval.
Administrative Area Build
The Administrative Area of your website enables you to perform many of the behind the scenes updating, processing, and other tasks that we build in for you to do conveniently from your own online interface. During this phase we will ...
• Build the back-end functionality to connect your custom interface with your web page's content
• Write custom programming to make your administrative area easy to use for your staff without need of coding or web development knowledge.
• Create custom error pages for your website.
• Submit these areas to you for changes and approval.
Final Review
You will be able to review your entire webpage build in a test site for changes and approval.
Site Launch
We will launch your website and make sure that it is search engine ready.
Site Maintenance
We know that building a website is just the beginning.
Additional Items
MultiMedia
Enhance your site with streaming media. Leading Media has several options, from FREE to custom, that allow you to Audio/Video Enable your site. Your Website, Your Audio, Your Video… with Leading Media, you can "private label" the video player window. You control the look. Visitors don't leave your site or your "look and feel."
Database Design
We offer a full range of database options, from full site to Add-ins. We can construct what you or your business may need to remain competitive by offering the ability to search and retrieve information from a database. Databases may reside on our servers or we can connect to your existing database for even more connectivity.
Programming
A succesful site is one that is as current as possible, we can design your site with a
"Control Panel System" that allows you to update the content on your site with no more knowlede than it takes to surf the net. We also believe that your site should be seen exactly the same across all platforms, to this end we design for just about every operating system and browser ( something most places don't or won't bother doing)
Marketing
Our marketing department is versed in internet marketing as well as traditional media including newspapers, magazines, direct mail and radio. We will develop a marketing plan that includes marketing research, creative design and copywriting. We can integrate audio, video, photographs, and text with a back-end database to deliver an interactive multimedia experience.
