Building a website

Key Stages of a Web Pro­ject :4

The devel­op­mental stage is the part where
the web­site for the first time begins to take real shape.

A Developer is put­ting your pages together fol­low­ing
the Nav­ig­a­tional Struc­ture as estab­lished back in
the “Per­fect Plan­ning” stage. “The Design Stage“
con­tin­ues by sup­ply­ing the Developer with all the graph­ical
ele­ments that may be needed by any of those web­site pages.

The developer is using a com­bin­a­tion of HTML, ASP or PHP and CSS to code your web­site and is cre­at­ing func­tion­al­ity that a Bespoke CMS or an Open Source CMS will even­tu­ally allow a cli­ent to con­trol for them­selves. That’s a lot of accronyms, and you don’t need to under­stand what they all do, but lets just say there’s a lot of what looks like clever magic and maths at work to bring you web pro­ject to life!

Devel­op­ment Website

The web­site isn’t built under the cli­ents own domain/URL just yet, we don’t want any­one to be able to see the work in pro­gress and mis­take it as the final live site, and so this devel­op­ment ver­sion of the site is access­ible under a Twenty­four­ten devel­op­ment URL.

Dur­ing this time, the in-progress web­site is avail­able to our cli­ents for view­ing, cli­ents will be able to play around with the site and test things out, and will be asked to con­firm that func­tion­al­ity and user-experience is as anti­cip­ated. Cli­ents can sug­gest any addi­tional changes or cor­rec­tions they may like to have done, but if requests are sig­ni­fic­ant enough a cost may be asso­ci­ated with it.

The Next Key Stage

With the Devel­op­ment Stage com­pleted, we need to move on to that next Key Stage …

Key Stages of a Web Pro­ject 5: Test­ing and Deliv­ery Stage