6 Phases of the Web Design & Development Process

3. "Your web designer will create one or more prototype designs for your web site. This is typically a .jpg image of what the final design will look like."

5. "At this point, your web designer will attend to the final details and test your web site. ... A good web designer is one who is well versed in current standards for web site design and development. The basic technologies currently used are XHTML and CSS"

I don't see the logic here. If a web designer's primary task is creating design mockups then knowledge of xhtml and css isn't very helpful. A professional tester would be a better choice.

Nice overview for a first timer, but please tell me the designer is sending PNGs and not JPGs of a mockup.

Nice outline - would be nice to see a little more meat on the bones, especially the "information gathering" phase. Maybe a future post, I suppose.