What is website development?
There are numerous steps involved
in the website development process
from gathering initial information to
creation of website and finally
maintenance of website to keep it up
to date.
General steps:
Information Gathering
Planning
Design
Development
Testing and Delivery
Maintenance
Information gathering
Information gathering is the most
important part. In this phase your
website designer will ask you
different questions regarding
purpose, goal and target audience of
your website or blog. He will also ask
you about the type of content to be
published on the website.
Purpose: What will be the purpose
of your website? Do you want to
share information or wants to
promote or sell something?
Goal:
What is your main objective of
creating website? Do you want to
share information or earn money?
Target audience:
Who will be your
audience? For whom you want the
website to be developed for? What is
the age group of audience? To which
group of society you want this site?
What’ll be the Interest of your
audience? Later on these questions
will help to determine the best
design for your website.
Content:
What kind of information
your target audience will be looking
for on your site?
Planning Phase:
In this phase the designer will
create a sitemap of your website that
will list all important topics as well
as sub-topic of your website. This
site map decides navigation of you
website and how your audience will
locate information on the website,
navigate on website will be friendly
or not? A good user interface always
provides easy navigation.
In planning phase your website
designer or developer will also
discuss about the technologies to be
used on your website. Elements like
interactive forms, ecommerce, flash
etc.
Design
The design or look of the website
will particularly depend on the
target audience. Keeping the target
audience in the mind developer will
select an appropriate design.
Developer may create prototype
designs to show you in a .jpg image
file.
These steps or discussion will give
the opportunity to express your
views about the design and your
needs. This phase is crucial it
decides how you website will finally
look.
Development:
In the development phase your
designer will took off elements from
the prototype you have selected to
be converted into real one. This is
done by creating a home page first
and if it works fine then other pages
will be added.
Elements such as interactive contact
forms, flash animations or
ecommerce shopping carts are
implemented and made functional
during this phase.
In this phase your designer should
allow you to see the project in
progress so that you can ask for any
change you want.
Testing and Delivery:
In the testing phase the developer
will test the website by viewing it on
different browsers to ensure that
website will look similar in all
browsers. He will also see to it if all
browsers interpret the code similarly
and the website is designed
according to standards or not.
Once everything is ok he/she will
upload the website on server using
FTP or any other technology and will
again check to see if everything is
working fine or not.
This phase will be the official launch
of your website.
Maintenance:
A website never gets completed
because it always needs to be
maintenance and should be updated
according to new technologies and
info. You and your designer have to
always check the website after
specific period to ensure if it’s
working or not.
This step also includes the SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) of your
website which includes making
correct title, description, keyword,
words density and search engine
submission of your website. Today
SEO is crucial to decide whether
website will perform well or not.
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