How do I get started?
The Website Development Process….
Involves several major interrelated components: Evaluating needs and
setting goals, organizing resources, signing contracts, and building
the web site.
The key steps in the website development process are:
- Client Survey and Content Questionnaire
This document helps us evaluate your needs and provides basic information
regarding: who you are, what your time frame is, how many pages
may be required, if you need a domain name, what resources you have
in place, the purpose of your website, etc.
- The Website Marketing Plan
What are your goals? Are they realistic? What resources in time,
money and staff will be required? What is the purpose of your website?
What products or services do you plan on offering? Who are your
customers? How will you connect with them?
Identify who and how the website will serve. Discuss what you need
to have on the website and why. Be clear about what your business
should gain from it and how.
- The Proposal & Agreement
How much will it cost? How is this all going to work together? How
long will it take? What will I have to provide? What does the Agreement
include? What about copyrights, trademarks & warranties?
- Project Development
Thoroughly develop the material for the website, making sure it
is helpful, concise and 'readable'. Keep your target customer/surfer
in mind - if it is of no use to him/her you may be wasting your
time...
- Website Architecture & Design
This phase of the process is where the site content and design features
are developed. The graphic interface is produced and the layouts,
illustrations, photographs, navigation systems, and other graphic
elements, type styles and faces are applied. Links are checked,
programming is analyzed and tested and the site structure begins
to take shape.
Your spending can probably be broken down into three blocks:
- The development and design fees for the computer code
- Website hosting fees (payment to store the website on a computer
connected permanently to the internet)
- Update fees - would you buy from a company that sent you material
that is a year old? One of the keys to website success is to keep
it fresh so that a website remains useful and relevant and so customers
will come back more frequently to see what has changed!
At the end of this process, your website is loaded onto the server
and final testing is completed. It is very important at this point
that the marketing and promotion of your website kicks into high
gear and that arrangements have been made for site maintenance and
management.
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