Web Development Process
Step 1. Gathering Information: Purpose, Main Goals, and Target Audience
This stage, the stage of discovering and researching, determines how the steps will look like and here the most important point is to get a clear understanding of your future web development purposes, the main aim you wish to get, and the targeted customers you want to attract to your web site. Such kind of a web design development questionnaire will help you to develop the best strategy for further project management.
News portal differs from the fun websites, and online resources for youngsters look different than sites for adults. Different types of websites provide clients with different functionality which means that different technologies should be used according to the target. A well-described execution made on the basis of this pre-development data can prevent you from investing extra resources.
Step 2. Planning: Sitemap and Wireframe Creation
At this step of web design development, the developer generates the data that gives an opportunity to the clients to judge how the entire site will look like. And then on the basis of the data and information gathered together in the previous stage, the sitemap is created.
The relations between the main area of your website should be described by the sitemap and such a representation could help you to understand how usable the final product will be. The main reason behind the creation of sitemap is to build a user-friendly and easy to navigate website.
Step 3. Design: Page Layouts, Review, and Approval Cycle
During the design time, your website takes shape. All the visual content text, such as images, photos, and videos is created at this process. Once again, all the info that was gathered through the first phase is crucial. The customer and target audience must be kept in mind while you work on a design.
The website layout is the result of a designer’s work. It can be a graphic sketch or an actual graphic design. The primary function of the layout is to represent the information structure, visualize the content, and demonstrate the basic system functions. Layouts contain colors, logos, images and can give a general understanding of the future product.
Then the customer can review the layout and send you his feedback. If the client is not sure about some aspects of your design, you should change the layout and send it back to him. This cycle should be repeated until the customer is completely satisfied.
Step 4. Content Writing and Assembly
Content writers typically create text content for the Website. This content can include sales copy, e-books, podcasts, and text for graphics. Content writers use various Web formatting tools, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and content management systems to help create their work. Content writers produce the content for many different types of websites, including blogs, social networks, e-commerce sites, news aggregators, and college websites.
Aside from writing content, these writers might also be responsible for making sure the sites’ pages and content connect. They’re also responsible for setting the overall tone of the site. Content writers accomplish these tasks by researching and deciding what information to include or exclude from the site.
STEP 4: Coding
At this process, all the graphics elements and web content are ready from the previous stages.
This is where to you sit and get your hands dirty writing some code. you finally start to create the actual website.
You will begin by creating the homepage after which you add other subsequent pages in accordance with the web design hierarchy you developed in the sitemap previously.
It is also at this point that you will run your CMS (Content Management System) or framework installation, depending on the technology stack you chose previously, to ensure that everything runs smoothly and the server is able to render pages.
At the coding time, a good understanding of the technology stack you chose previously comes in handy.
With your tech skills as a Web Designer, you’ll put together and test the static page elements that you designed during the mock-up and layout stage.
At the coding time your skills in SEO (Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo, Bing) will be useful in helping you optimize the website.
STEP 5: Website Launch and Maintenance
Questions to be Ask.
- How is the Web site published
- How is the Web site updated
- Who is responsible for content updates
- Will the Web site be monitored