Web Resources

Website Planning 

It is important to plan a website project before starting the development process. A website goes through various stages in the development cycle to insure it will accomplish the goals for designing it.

  • Planning the purpose of the website
  • Analyzing the audience
  • Developing the content
  • Testing and quality assurance
  • Documentation
  • Website Launch

Planning the purpose of the website

Starting by gathering ideas and concepts regarding the site will help shape up the purpose of the site. defining the color scheme of the website will be the next step in the planning stage. it is important for a website to reflect the brand of the company.

Analyzing the audience

The audience are the groups of people or businesses that are expected to be viewing the site. Viewing the site as a potential customer helps defining the structure of the site. Desiging the website around the idea of finding what customers need easily is a key stage in the website development cycle.  Taking into consideration the different types of users is also important. each user browses websites differently from another user, so trying to think of all possible ways users could interact with a site is accomplished at this stage.

Developing the content

Developing the content of a website is also an important stage. When developing the content 2 major points need to be addressed:

  • Users
  • Search Engines

Website content needs to be relevant to the products or services that are being advertised on the site. Users will not spend time on websites that displays irrilevant content.

The content also plays a major role in how search engines will crawl the website. desiging the content with the Search Engine Optimization in mind will help improve search engine rankings and results.

Testing and quality assurance

This is the next step in the website development cycle, Once the site is completly developed and ready for launch, a complete run through the site is performed to ensure no areas of the website have been missed. Any modifications to the website happen at this stage.

Documentation

Help documents are prepared for the various areas of the site to help the backend users or developers understand the structure of the site and how each section functins.

Website launch

after the website have been tested, it is released to the public and search engines.