• The HotHouse Process
  HotHouse has developed a unique process to help clients make informed decisions about the sort of web site they want.
  
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Our Process

HotHouse has developed a unique process to help clients make informed decisions about the sort of web site they want. Instead of a thick document filled with jargon and techno-babble, we pare down the complex methodology behind a web site into an easy to read pictorial storyboard.

HotHouse then take you through the "story" of your web site and show you how it unfolds at every click from your customers. Because you can see how your web site will function in real time you can make judgments on its suitability to your marketing objectives, ask questions and suggest changes before you sign off on the build.

This enables HotHouse to offer clients a guaranteed level of web site usability, and also to offer a fixed price commitment since the possibilities for scope creep or mis-communication are reduced to almost nil.

Clients have a comprehensive but easy to understand blueprint of the web site they are getting and can see immediate return on investment.

The blueprint is then used as a working document that follows the project right through to delivery and release, similar to an architect's drawings on the construction of a house. This means our clients have better control of the process, more realistic views on return on investment and quick access to facts.

The blueprint process has been developed over several years after we realised that the industry standard method cost clients time and money and - often - months of frustration.

When you work with HotHouse you can be certain we will always speak in a language you understand.

Click here to see our Process Methodology.

A clients perspective

"For every web site that HotHouse builds for Toyota Australia, a clear set of steps is followed. The most beneficial step that is undertaken is the development of the blueprints by HotHouse for the proposed site.

Whether it is a big or small project, these blueprints clearly demonstrate to everyone involved exactly how the web site will fit together and what the dependencies are for every page of the site.

It basically eliminates the discrepancies between what a client thinks they are getting for their money and what they are actually getting. Through the use of these blueprints, the work HotHouse has produced has been on time, to budget and more importantly it works exactly how we intended to work, every time.

With the complexity of our business internally and the number of business divisions that are now becoming involved in web based initiatives, these blueprints help everyday business managers design the process flow of leading edge e-business strategies.

They take the focus off technology and replace it where it belongs - on our business."