It's hard to say which option suits you the best, it all depends on your goals and your budget and time restriction. Generally, even with the budget limitation, you should consider opting for a hybrid option that allows you to customize the template to fit your goals. We have covered the topic in much more details in our article Website template vs Custom Website, please be sure to check it out if you are interested in learning more.
To get you started, there are several basic terms that we usually use in website design projects that may help you once we start.
Website theme
A theme dictates the general look and style of your website. Your theme is made up of a range of things, such as:
The website theme helps to reflect your identity through your site, and improve your customer's experience.
Website (brand) design guidelines
Website design guidelines are essentially a set of rules that explain how your website looks and works. If you have a brand guidelines, your website guidelines should follow the brand guidelines. A website is never done. As your business matures, your website will keep on growing with additional content, pages, and new sections with different people work on it. One way to ensure consistency and brand identity throughout the website is to create a website guideline and strictly follow it.
Website color palette
Nero
RBG:26 26 26
HEX: #1A1A1A
Matterthorn
RBG:84 84 84
HEX: #545454
Grey
RBG:130 130 130
HEX: #828282
Scarlet
RBG:227 23 10
HEX: #E3170A
Identity Usage
Heading Typeface
Website Page Layout
Your custom website can consist of a single or multiple pages such as:
These pages may share the same design with different content, or different design for each page.
Multiple pages with same layout are counted as one single "page layout" while pages with different layouts are considered as multiple "page layout". Since it takes minimal amount of work to re-use the same layout on different pages, website design agencies normally count only the different unique layouts.
Website design revisions
A revision is a change or variation to a design concept, and is typically a change of less than 1/4 of the design. A revision is simply meant to be a slight modification or course correction to progress toward the final design. In an ideal world, with our website design services we can do unlimited revisions for each design until we reach the final desired result. In the real world, however, there is a limited number of revisions that can be done before we go over our deadline and budget. Each package in our bespoke web design services we offer has a reasonable number of revisions to ensure that we can wok together toward the final design while keeping everything within your fixed budget.
Original website page:
After revision:
Background image replaced, elements resized and relocated (margin & padding changed) based on design style, content writing edited for friendly SEO, font replaced and font style changed based on new function and content.
Every time we deliver a new custom design to the client, we schedule an online/offline review session to collect all feedbacks for the next revision.
Basic custom website design features
Basic website features cover the essential functions for most websites. A normal blog page or company website usually requires only these most basic features. The list of basic features includes but not limited to:
Advanced custom website design features
Advanced website features cover the additional functions that can be useful for a more complex website. The list of advanced features includes but not limited to:
Custom website design features
Nilead provides hosted solution, Software As A Service (SaaS) model, with customized features website design and development packages. For very complex website project with special requirements, we can custom build plugins and modules to handle these features. The list of advanced features includes but not limited to:
