A quick overview of the website development process.
Quick guide to creating and designing a website. The following website development process ensures that your website will become a leader in your industry now and in the following years.
Please note that there are a huge number of variables that can change the way a website is designed and delivered. Web design projects never cease to be clear, so the process / sequence should change from time to time depending on customer requirements, changes and expectations. Los Angeles web design clients who work in Hollywood can be much more critical than someone from North Dakota who owns a small motel. A single product store will have less website design needs than Los Angeles Dodgers. This guide will help you get started on the right path.
Step 1: Meet and Greet
One of them will want to start a site design project by meeting with a client. Together, the website designer and the client need to establish what needs to be done, who is responsible for which role (content, images, logo files, design approval), who are all points of contact on both sides, and other specific customers and developers' expectations.
Step 2: Brainstorm
In meeting and greeting, brainstorming is vital. What is the website for? Who are the competitors? Who is the main competitor? Who are we trying to win? Who is the target demographics? What is important and what is not? What should be on every page of a website? Is this a Los Angeles-only website or are people from all over the world coming to this site?
Council Flowchart is a great tool to use here. Create a homepage and create it to create all the pages you need. Include all the features on the page that you need, such as client login, interactive PDFs, interactive forms, photo gallery applications, etc.
Step 3: Frame or Drawing
Many people do not know what a frame is, but in the design of the site it is very important for the designer. The skeleton frame is a sketch or skeleton drawing of the pages of a website, which shows all the elements and functions that the web page should have designed. The framework will contain a header (with the necessary elements), navigation with all the necessary buttons, specific sections of the body / middle page area, such as an area for flash animation or separate marker boxes for different types of users, as well as a footer.
In the frame there is no need to include elements of graphic design. It is used to solve, on exit, any problems or missing elements and acts as a plan for your design, content and coding.
Step 4: Content Planning
With the frame and the breakdown of pages it is time to write the content that you need to go to each web page. Typically, a client or third-party content creator collects content and sends a website development team. Writing content is the biggest workload for a client during a web design project and can take a lot of time. ATAK Interactive offers you to closely monitor your competitors to make sure that you include everything that they do best and then beat them.
Step 5: Initial Design
While the client is working in step 4, the website designer can work on the design of the home page, which, once approved, will serve as the canvas / template for the rest of the site. It is best to first create a home page, and as soon as the client approves the transition to other pages.
Step 6: Customer Feedback
The client must review the website design files (homepage only) and approve or suggest corrections. The client needs to verify that you are responding to expectations and heading in the right direction. This is the time when a client can offer his expert opinion.
Step 7: Project Reconstruction
Here you need a little back and forth. The website designer should expect to make several changes to each page, and the client should expect to provide feedback. Typically, a website development company is responsible for setting ground rules regarding how many changes will be included, and at what point additional fees will be required.
Step 8: Customer Approval
The client must approve the design of the home page after the necessary work and additional work after the completion of feedback. The verification process is the primary responsibility of the client.
Step 9: Additional Page Design
The home page will serve as a skeleton for all internal pages. After the approval of the homepage, the website developer or design team must then develop all the internal pages for the website.
Step 10: Confirmation
Having done a little more back and forth (revisions), the client must approve all the project pages. This statement must occur before proceeding to the actual coding, since design changes over this period take longer to update than before coding begins.
Step 11: Create HTML and CSS ... Don't forget SEO!
The website designer can now start creating actual HTML and CSS ... converting projects to a working website. Do not forget to include the appropriate assembly for search engines and include title tags, keywords and content for search.
Step 12: Client Presentation
After the site is ready, the client needs the last opportunity to review and offer any feedback or corrections so that the site is fully polished for launch.
Step 13: Test
This is the last hard step. Test, check some more and repeat the test. Check the code, check the keywords, check the entire text to make sure that there are no spelling errors or inaccuracies. Check cross-browser functionality (for example, Internet Explorer and Firefox) to make sure that the website design looks good in all environments.
Step 14: Launch
Go live! It is time to launch the site for the general public. Be sure to check the site every day for two weeks to make sure nothing is scared, and ask some of your colleagues or family members to also read them.
Step 15: Repeat
A good website design is one that is always relevant. Keep updating, customizing and improving. Search engines also change their rules, so make sure you are on top of your game, or your web designer. A good installation tool (free) is Google Analytics, which helps to control the interaction with the site.
