Website Design & Development Process

Before starting a website it is good to have a design process in place. By having a Website Design & Development Process it will help direct and make the overall decisions easier for the website project at hand. It will  let you focus on the desired outcomes and results needed for the website.

Below is a list of some of the essentials that need to be taken into consideration to complete a website.

• Website Consultation
• Design Strategy / Concept Development
• SEO – Search Engine Optimisation
• Sitemap
• Wireframes
• UX Expectations
• UI/Design
• Code / Development / Testing
• Launch
• Monitoring of Results

Lets expand a little of each of those dotpoints.

Website Consultation

• Design Brief
• Desired Outcomes – Results
• Research

Design Strategy / Concept Development

Using information from the consultation process and referring to the design brief you start to look at how those results can be achieved and the steps to take.

SEO – Search Engine Optimisation

An important part of any website is the SEO strategy and implementation starting from on-page SEO to eternal SEO practices. Planing early will make it easier to integrate into the coding of the website.

Sitemap

Sitemaps allow you to visually see the overall content of a site that requires structuring and how it will interact  from one section to the next. An important step to the websites performance and UX.

Wireframes

A wireframe is an extension of the site map. It focuses in on the individual pages content, functionality and also how those page will interact with other pages with the website (or external websites etc).

UX Expectations

An important part of any website is the way that people will easily be able to get what they are looking for (or what you are wanting them to know) in the best possible experience.

UI/Design

UI design blends in with the UX design of a website. UI design aims to engages the website user through visuals to feel confident about using the website.

Code / Development / Testing

Taking the design then converting it into the code which will run the website. Testing is an important part of the development process, better to test sooner then later, ideally at regular intervals.

Launch

Taking the website from the development / testing environment to the live public environment of the internet.

Monitoring of Results

Monitoring the original set of desired outcomes results & refinement of website if needed.