1. How a Project Starts
Every partnership at MNW Creative Studio begins with a collaborative consultation. Whether you select our Starter ($200 USD), Professional ($400 USD), Premium ($700+ USD), or an Advanced custom quote ($1,200–$2,500+ USD), our objective is to ensure total alignment on your business goals, target audience, and functional expectations before a single line of code is written.
Once project scope and initial payment requirements are established, your project is formally scheduled on our production calendar.
2. The 6-Stage Project Lifecycle
We follow a structured, transparent design and engineering process:
1. Discovery & Planning
We analyze your brand, business goals, target audience, site architecture, and functional needs to define a clear, structured roadmap.
2. Design & Prototyping
We craft custom visual layouts, typography, color palettes, and interactive prototypes tailored to elevate your brand positioning.
3. Development & Build
Once design concepts are approved, we engineer clean, high-performance, modern front-end code with responsive layouts and smooth micro-interactions.
4. Testing & Quality Assurance
Rigorous cross-browser, multi-device (mobile/desktop), accessibility, speed, and responsive audits ensure a flawless user experience.
5. Launch & Deployment
We deploy the website to production, configure your custom domain and SSL, submit search engine index requests, and verify live functionality.
6. Post-Launch Support
We provide dedicated post-launch support to ensure smooth operation, answer team questions, and address any unexpected launch anomalies.
3. Client Approvals & Sign-off Milestones
To ensure efficiency and prevent miscommunication, our projects feature clear sign-off checkpoints:
- Design Approval: You review the visual concepts, typography, layout, and mobile viewports. Your approval signals our transition into full development.
- Staging Review: Prior to public launch, you review the live staging build to test all interactive forms, buttons, links, and content presentation.
- Final Launch Sign-off: Following final review and approval, we point your custom domain and deploy your website to production.
4. Scope Inclusions vs. Exclusions
Transparency prevents surprises. Below is an overview of what is included within standard engagements versus services that require separate scoping:
What Is Standard & Included
- Custom UI/UX layout aligned with your brand aesthetic
- Full mobile, tablet, and desktop responsive adaptation
- Performance optimization (fast loading, asset minification)
- Foundational technical SEO (meta tags, sitemap, semantic markup)
- Functional contact and inquiry form setup
- Assistance connecting custom domains and launching live
Typically Excluded (Quoted Separately)
- •Writing original business copy or content from scratch
- •Purchasing paid stock photography or premium video assets
- •Ongoing annual web hosting or domain registration bills
- •Third-party SaaS monthly subscriptions or transaction fees
- •Complex backend architecture outside agreed scope
5. Additional Features & Scope Changes
We understand that project visions evolve during creative collaboration. If you request new pages, additional integrations, or complex custom functionality outside the originally agreed package:
- We provide a transparent estimate of additional hours and cost before initiating the change.
- Scope additions are formally agreed in writing to prevent surprises on your invoice or unexpected delivery delays.
6. Domain & Hosting Responsibilities
To ensure complete ownership and autonomy over your digital presence:
- Domain Ownership: Clients should purchase and maintain direct ownership of their custom domain name through an ICANN-accredited registrar.
- Hosting Environment: Clients maintain direct billing ownership of their hosting or cloud provider. MNW Creative Studio manages the technical configuration, DNS records, and deployment setup for you.
7. Maintenance & Support After Delivery
Our relationship does not end at launch:
- Launch Warranty: Every new website includes a 14-day warranty period following live deployment to address any unforeseen bugs, display issues, or formatting anomalies in the delivered scope.
- Ongoing Maintenance: Clients seeking ongoing content updates, periodic feature additions, or proactive technical maintenance can engage MNW Creative Studio on a flexible monthly retainer or ad-hoc basis.
8. Contact Information
If you have questions about how we handle projects or would like to discuss an upcoming website build:
Contact & Business Information
Have a question about our services, policies, project scope, or payments? We are here to help and ensure complete clarity.
MNW Creative Studio
Independent Web Design & Development Studio
Have a question about our services, policies, project scope or payments? Contact us at mnwcreativestudio@gmail.com.