The Website Development Life Cycle
A successfull product with customer satisfaction to output the desired results sounds very easy but in technical terms it need lots of Time, Brain and Planning. Being online is not big deal but to make a difference is a big deal. All this have importance in its own terms and needed to be divided in few steps.
Guide on Software Development Life Cycle
Gathering important Information
Having clear comprehension about the fundamental objectives, purposes, and target crowd for your website is key towards successful product. As this helps to create ontology, graphs, plan and also to decide the technology to build your product. Gathering information is about the requirement of client, expectation and some facts and figures about the real world.
Planning
Planning involves judgement of project feasibility, goal and developemnt services. This phase also considers the budget and cost of execution. This phase invloves:
- Work Plan
- Team involved
- Number of developers/designers
- Technology
- Hardware/Software Requirements
- Estimated Cost
- Client approval
Design
This is the static version of your project. It covers page layouts, colours, logo, Interaction level and up to some extent the flow of project. This will give you an idea about how your product will look like when it has gone through the execution level. Thi also involves the entry level images, photography and demonstrates the standard functional layouts and the content
Content Writing
Content writing means the text, blogs, information written on the website pages which involves pages like About Us, Contact Us, Terms and Policy, Agreement etc. Its all upto the clients choice whether they want to provide there own content or want to hire profession content writer. This is to make web more interactive by providing some text information. The grammatical and spelling check should be over in this phase.
Coding
Here comes the harcore involvemmnet of developer who is responsible to program all the flow decided in the previous steps.Programmer concentrates on the system flow, data integration, data binding, databases and the data linkings. Proffesionals do take care about the coding to strike SEO of the site as well.
Review, Testing, and Launch
Once the developer has finished programming, Testing team gets invlolved and analyze the whole work flow as well as design. Testing team makes sure that product is similar to what was discussed under phase Planning. Client can overtake this phase at there own and test the system. But professional testers do testing through softwares as well as manully so as to result in bug free system. Once all is good with client then project is loaded on live server so that public can access it.
Maintenance
The last stage in development life cycle is simply the support of the website. In order to be active in marketplace its neccessary to maintain your website with latest technologies, this phase actually covers the maintanence to make sure that site never goes down and server is always up to date.
We technically take care of all these steps while working on Website so as to execute all stages accurately and can help you being safe from the cost of additional costs.This makes sense to hire a professionals to ensure that you obtain the best website for your business.