Because you control your own content, your new site can go live as soon as you feel it's ready. If you want to use one of our free design skins, that might mean only a day or two after you sign up. Assuming you can blog, article and upload enough in a couple of days to make the site interesting and inviting to visitors. If you want a custom design skin for your site, our process usually takes a month for design, install and client approvals along the way. If you want a really detailed look at the steps and time involved, feel free to download the pdf below. For a quick look at the process for creating and installing a custom design take a look at our simplified road map.
You sign up and choose a temporary design skin for your site. You create a simple site map for us showing the main sections and pages of your site (don't worry, we'll help).
If you want a custom look for your site, you fill out our design questionnaire, sign a work statement and send us any images or other design resources you want to use.
We start designing.
Simultaneously you begin to shape your new site from your virtual back office: adding custom pages, uploading images and multimedia, adding articles and calendar events, blogging and setting up slideshows. (Or you get us to do all that for you.)  
We send you our brilliant design ideas for the home page and you choose between them with great difficulty.
We make any final design changes and create a cohesive look for the rest of the site.
Upon your approval we install the new site. We point your domain name at the new site and your site makes its debut on the world wide web. You are fantastically happy.