InfoToGo Custom Programming

The Internet can streamline your business activities - creating value by increasing the productivity of your staff.

Moving your paper-based process online reduces the cost of creating and maintaining key business information by asking your customer - not your staff members - to perform the vital task of data entry. Accessing forms and information online allows your customers to retrieve and submit information from you when it is convenient for them - your ""virtual office"" is open 24 hours a day!

We approach Custom Development in a methodical and precise manner in order to ensure that you receive the exact functionality you want and need.

The first step in this process is the paper prototype or Development Plan. The Development Plan is a document that shows our understanding of how your website or web-based software should look and behave. The document will contain generic screen shots that show all of the major elements of your project including navigation, content placement and organization.

After collecting the input of all stakeholders in your project, we will prepare an in-depth Preliminary Development Plan that will depict the major elements on every page of your website. This Plan will be returned to you for further analysis and input. This exchange of ideas will continue until you are satisfied that the website will behave as you expect and provide all needed functionality. Most projects require multiple revisions before the Plan is deemed complete and satisfactory.

Finally, the delivery of the planning process - the Final Web Development Plan - forms the basis of our contractual agreement and ensures that there is standard by which to judge the completeness of our work.

There are several reasons that we believe it is important to spend a considerable amount of time planning your website on paper before moving to coding. First and most importantly, writing code is expensive and time-consuming. We do not want to waste your time writing code that is not wanted or needed. A strong planning process minimizes the possibility that we will misunderstand some aspect of your needs and deliver a product to you that does not behave as you expect.

Secondly, we have found that your ideas about how your website should look and behave will change over the course of the planning process. A complete plan showing every page included in your web-based application helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses in the design long before any code is implemented. It is far less costly to make changes on paper than in a coding work-in-progress.