1. Set the goal before talking design
The first question is not the logo colour but what the website should bring in. A hotel wants direct bookings, a practice wants appointments, a shop wants orders or store visits. That goal decides the pages, forms and tools to connect.
This is the "Listen" stage of Devlab's method: understanding your business, your customers and what costs you time today, before proposing anything.
Who should find the website, and what are they looking for?
What action do you expect from visitors?
Which tools already exist: booking, catalogue, sales management?
2. Choose the right type of website
A business website presents the company, its services and contact details, and receives enquiries. An e-commerce site sells online, with catalogue, basket and payment. A custom platform goes further: customer area, booking, connection to your management software.
The "Quantify" stage sets priorities, budget and success criteria together. We often start with the essentials, then the site grows with the business.
3. Gather the content
Company text, service descriptions, photos of the team and premises, legal notices: preparing these early keeps the project moving. Devlab helps structure them, and Flow by Devlab can handle graphic design, photos and video.
For international customers, plan an English version from the start: it is simpler to build alongside the French one.
4. Build, test, launch
The "Integrate" stage covers design, development, testing on phones and computers, and connections to your tools. The site is prepared for search engines and AI assistants: titles, structure, company data and sitemap.
Allow a few weeks for a well-scoped site whose content is ready, longer for a platform connected to business tools.
5. Keep the site alive after launch
A static website ages fast. Devlab's subscription covers everything after launch: we host it, maintain it, answer you, improve it step by step and rebuild it when it has run its course. This is the "Support" stage, with a team of 14 experts based in Tahiti, in your time zone.
Devlab has built websites for Banque de Tahiti, Sofidep, CESEC, Matete and SIPAC, among others.