Building A Website. Introduction Into Website Development Life Cycle

To the web design industry outsider, it often appears that the website development process revolves around coding and only coding. However, this is far from the truth.

Before the owner’s eyes shine with excitement as their brand-new website hits the web waters; before their so-much-anticipated and well-built web presence becomes a powerful income generator and attracts online visitors; and before it can delight prospects with amazing web design and user experience, a website goes through several development stages that many are not aware of.

There are a number of steps in building a website. Despite popular belief, website design and development are only two of them. They are, however, the most “prominent” steps of a website creation process since their results are readily perceived by the user. Although they always go unnoticed, other website building steps are not less important, but perhaps even more so. No doubt that technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript shape the web and the way we interact with it. But it misses the eye of a regular viewer how web design and development are in actuality shaped by the steps that precede them.

Let Branders Pro be your guide in the website creation process. This is the first blog of a series that will be explaining step by step a web development life cycle.

Website Creation Process. An Outline

You, as a client, may be new to understanding how website creation works. The whole process of developing a website may seem confusing. But it is important to be aware of if you are looking to hire a web development company to build you a website.

Having an idea about hours and hours spent on designing the perfect user interface/user experience (UI/UX), monitors cramped with thousands of lines of codes, altercations between the designers and developers on why the button is a pixel off from the actual design (which turns out to be a big issue:)), in short, understanding how your project will be developed may greatly improve the workflow as well as the outcome, especially when it comes to your feedback and approvals.

A quality website is the result of a holistic and structured approach that serves as a sure sign of the agency’s expertise, credibility, and authority. Every designer or web development company evolves unique components to their website building process over time, demonstrating all the work and skill they put into establishing a successful online presence. While the process may differ depending on the type of the project and the client’s requirements, its basis essentially remains the same: discover, plan, design, code, test, launch, and maintain. Such a simple actionable plan for creating a website will help with communication throughout the project, ultimately leading to happier you – and more efficient and smoother execution for the web design agency you hire.

There’s No Insignificant Detail in Website Development

Preliminary information gathering, comprehensive planning, quality assurance, and post-launch maintenance usually stay behind the scenes. Although these steps escape the attention of the audience and may seem insignificant, they are important for developing an amazing website. Because the better you define the tasks on your way to the desired outcome, the easier it is to arrive at the optimal solution.

The web design agency of your choice should create a website development timeline, scope of work, add tasks for each stage of the process, and establish milestones for your project. This is the best practical way of tracking your project implementation to keep you constantly updated and make sure to keep up with the deadline.

In the next blog, we will be looking into the first step of website creation – Research & Discovery.

Stay tuned.

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