When building a website there is a process that most designers use.
This process covers all the steps from deciding on a website to building it and putting them live. Generally the following steps are crucial;
1. The purpose of the site Knowing the purpose of the site will help you set goals for the site as well as help determine your target audience.
Goals are useful for they help one to measure how the site is performing, and whether it is worth expanding and improving the site.
And knowing the target audience for a site can help one with design elements as well as appropriate content. A site targeting seniors is going to have a completely different feel from one targeting toddlers.
2. Planning the site design: start with a plan and start that plan even before the first wireframe is built.
Your design plan should include:
o Details about the information architecture o The planned structure of the site o A site map of the pages to be designed and built o And technical details like: if scripts or Ajax will be used, whether there will be a server-side language like PHP in use, if one needs a shopping cart and so on.
3. Designing; it is recommended that you do your design in a graphics program or even on paper first. This includes use of wire frames, layout of the designs, colors, etc.
4. Gathering /creating the site content Content is what people come to your site for. This can include text, images, and multimedia. By getting at least some of the content ready ahead of time, you can more easily start building the site. Text – this can be articles, blog posts, lists, reviews, or anything that you want to write about on your site. Graphics –including photos you’ve taken and free images
Multimedia –adding sound and video to your sites appropriately. Multimedia isn’t appropriate for all target audiences.
5. Actual building the site This involves building the HTML and CSS
use lots of different technologies to build your site HTML – this is the basis of your website CSS – Once you know HTML, CSS helps you create the design you planned.
6. Testing the site
Testing your website is critical both throughout the building phase and after you’ve gotten it built. While you’re building it, you should as well preview the pages periodically to make sure your HTML and CSS are working correctly. This helps to ensure that;
• The site meets the goals set out in step one. Does this site fulfill it’s purpose?
• The technical features (HTML, CSS, scripts, and so on) work correctly.
• The design works in significant browsers.
7. UPLOADING the Site to Your Hosting Provider Uphold your pages to a hosting provider to test them effectively.
Testing can be done offline or online
8. Marketing your site Some people feel that they don’t need to do marketing for their website. But if you want people to visit you must market it.
The most common way to get people to a website is through SEO or search engine optimization
9. And Finally You Will Need to MAINTAIN Your Website
The best websites are changing all the time. Maintenance will include; adding new content as well as keeping the existing content up-to-date. Plus, probably wanting to do a redesign, to keep the design up-to-date as well.
The important parts of maintenance are:
• Link checking – using link checkers • Content maintenance –by using blogs
• Redesigns – by iterative design
lydiajane74 answered the question on May 9, 2018 at 20:19
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