Free Resource: Pre-Design Questionnaire

In my last post about the importance of client goals, I mentioned that a pre-design questionnaire was a great way to get your client thinking about goals, site design, and what they want from their site. In the spirit helping the greater good, I decided to share my very own pre-design questionnaire with you guys.

I will include a link at the bottom the post where you can download the pre-design questionnaire.

Let me know what you think about this. I would be interested in hearing any suggestions on this form or how it works for you.

[ WEBSITE Design Questionnaire ]

Please take your time to fully read and ANSWER ALL OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS, we will return the questionnaire if the answers to all questions are not provided. When you respond to the questions please use simple words, be professional, and try to give us as much info as you can. However, do not loose the point of the question. If the statement of work is completed properly we will have fewer reviews, the job will be done much faster and it will help us deliver the website you expect. If you think that you do not understand or you are not sure what we mean with any of the questions please do not hesitate to contact us and ask.

INFO & SPECIFICATIONS

Usually we split the Website design process into two stages as follows:

Design information

• We need your logo, preferably in vector format, but any kind of format in high resolution is OK.
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• What is the main goal of the website?
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• What image do you want to present? ( conservative, avant-garde, trendy, intellectual, trust worthy, knowledgeable, relaxed, prosperous ) – ( corporate look and feel = trust worthy + relaxed + prosperous )
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• Please indicate a minimum of 3 websites that you like and tell us why and what you like for each example. (The question is made for us to understand what type of design you like and it will give us an idea of the look and feeling that you expect).
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• Please indicate a minimum of 3 websites that you don’t like and tell us why and what you don’t like for each example. (The question is made for us to understand what type of design you don’t like and it will give us an idea of the look and feeling that you don’t expect).
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• Describe what your company does, what product and/or service you want to promote trough the website.
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• Please provide us with the sitemap. ( The site map is the structure of the site, the website menu links )
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Content for the index and inner pages are required. (Please attach a zip file with the text, pictures or other content that you have for all the website pages, or if you have a online website and you want us to use the content from there please indicate us the web address). If you don’t have the content yet, when do you think you will have the final version of the content? Or please specify if you are agree to use dummy (demo) text like (Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.) this is a Latin text that is use for demo text. – for reference please visit loremipsum.net
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Overall Information

• Who is your company’s target audience? Describe the people and how your company is handling them.
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• Which are, in your opinion, the company’s main assets? Why should people rely on your company’s services or products?
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• List your competitor’s sites and tell us the strengths and weaknesses of their websites.
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• Any other comments.
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***Please review the statement of work so that you have answered all of our questions carefully.

***Please provide us with your complete contact info.