Web Site Questionnaire

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    General Information

  1. Your Name (required)
  2. Your Email (required)
  3. Phone Number
  4. Company Name
  5. Brief Company Description
  6. How did you find me? Referral? Google?
  7. Project Overview

  8. Why do you want a website? What is your objective? What do you want it to do?
  9. Do you have specific deadline you are trying to meet?
  10. Do you have a budget for website development?
  11. Can the project be divided into more than one part to adjust to time and/or budget limitations?
  12. Do you need hosting?
  13. Web Presence

  14. If you don't already have a domain name (e.g. www.lenashore.com), please choose up to 5 names (your choices may already be taken). Your domain name should be easily identifiable, easy to explain over the phone and print on a business card. Beware of words that sound the same but can be spelled differently (i.e. their and there, hare and hair, but and rear end).
  15. Is your company on the Internet at the moment?
  16. If so, what's your web address?
  17. How would you like the average visitor customer to perceive your site? (e.g. Reliable, fun, innovating, modern, exclusive, good for the entire family, easy to understand)
  18. How do you think your company is presently seen ? Would you like the new website to encourage this perception or to promote a change?
  19. Please list up to ten competitor websites.
  20. If we are going to host your email, please list the emails you would like us to set up. ( e.g. bob@yourcompany.com, info@yourcompany.com, customerservice@yourcompany.com)

  21. Please describe your target audience based on: geographical areas you wish to target, and ideal client profile (consider age, income groups and gender). Also mention if there's a kind of visitor you don't want to target.
  22. What are the most important objectives you want people visiting your website to accomplish? (Maybe you'd like people to call you, or order a product, or refer a friend)
  23. How will you measure success for this project? (e.g. lowering customer service phone call numbers, improve communications from/to your providers, increase sales, etc)
  24. How often do your customers visit your site? What do they use it for?
  25. What sets you apart from your competitors in the eyes of your customers? (e.g. price, quality, customer care, etc)
  26. What factors would you like to stress to your customers that set you above your competition?
  27. Please suggest initial keywords for your website. (We can handle this later if you're unsure.)
  28. List any problems experienced with your existing website (poor performance, graphics, load time, design, etc.).
  29. Have you planned the content and structure of your site? If so, please describe it briefly. If not, do you need us to help you with this?
  30. Will the site use content that is already published somewhere else? (e.g. advertising material, magazines, flyers company internal documentation, etc)
  31. How many pages will the site have approximately?
  32. Are you planning to keep the site updated? If so, how often?
  33. Design

  34. Do you have an existing corporate identity? (brand or logo, company colors, visual identity manual, etc. If you can provide a logo, we prefer it in a digital format with a transparent background.)
  35. Please provide the URL of a few websites you like and tell us what you find appealing.
  36. Please provide the URL of a few websites you do NOT like and tell us why you don't like them.
  37. Do you have any creative direction you would like to contribute? This would be any colors, fonts, works of art, other design elements you’ve seen and liked?
  38. What will you be able to provide for the project? (Company logo, copywriting, photography, graphics, illustration. etc.)
  39. Services

  40. What will you need me to provide or give you quotes on for the project? (Logo development, copywriter, stock photography, photographer, graphics/illustrations, etc)
  41. Do you need a copywriter, technical writer, creative writer, or editor?

  42. Are there any specific technologies (XHTML, JavaScript, Flash, database) you know of that you would like your site to use? If so, how do you think its implementation would benefit the user experience?
  43. Do you need a content management system? (This is a website that you can make your own changes in an administrative area)
  44. Do you need a system to perform secure online transactions? (e-commerce). Please describe what transactions you will be performing on the website.
  45. Does your site need any other feature we haven't asked? (Customization capacity, file management, etc)
  46. Are you interested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to increase your web exposure?
  47. Wrap Up

  48. After all those questions, there has to be something that didn't get asked. Please give any additional information about your project you feel we need to know.
  49. Do you have any comments or suggestions about this form or how we could improve it?
  50. Finally, please prove you are a human and not a spammer by typing the characters you see in the image below:
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