Web development is not a straightforward process. There goes a lot behind creating a successful website that gets results. that is why before creating a well-designed, fully functioning, easy-to-use and SEO-optimized website.
it is imperative to understand the steps that are taken when developing a website.
Let’s understand the, Most important steps of Website Designing and Development Processes:
- Research
- Planing
- Design
- Content writing
- Development
- Testing
- Maintenance
Research is the most crucial part of Website Designing and Development
This must be the first step in making every website because it provides important insight into everything that is needed to make a website that will give good results because doing it, you get to understand your customers and all their problems, and how you are going to solve their problems and needs.
You also get to know how your website is going to look like, what type of content you have to write on your website, the types of keywords you have to incorporate when in your writing, and so on.
And most importantly in this step, you learn about your competitors, the existing market, and how you can differentiate your products and services from your competitors.
So do not skim through this step because everything depends on it. You are going to be able to do further steps correctly if you have accumulated the correct information in the first step through thorough research.
Planing Website Designing and Development Processes
In this step, you plan every aspect of your website based on the information you have accumulated during the previous step and create a framework and sitemap. The sitemap is created to show the various functions of your website, the relationship between web pages, and how they are going to be linked to each other, in order to function for your target users.
During this process, you have imagined how exactly your website looks and how it will function through layout and sitemap. And remember sitemap does only represent the sketched structure of your website. Still, there has nothing been created for your website.
Designing can transform everything in Website Designing and Development
In this step layouts and visual content are created, namely, logos, graphics, images, and videos for user experience and engagement based on the research you have done in the first process.
Page layouts and visual content should be eye-catching and easily accessible to users because visual Contents play a very important role in customers’ engagement on your website.
Content writing is very important for Website Designing and Development in Terms of SEO.
Content writing: Headings, subheadings, descriptions, call-to-actions, and blogs are the most important things to create awareness about your product and service and to persuade customers to do actions (book, sign up, buy, learn more) on your website.
Do thorough research and come up with original and relatable content that is both SEO-optimized and engaging to make sure that your website gets organic traffic and good engagement with your customers and in turn good results.
Content writing is one of the best ways to talk about your products, and services and why customers should buy from your website. So make sure to have numerous contents on your website. Add a blog and about us pages and write and try to answer most of the questions your potential prospects might have about your niche.
At the same time try to not overstuff keywords in your writing because it will make a bad impression on your customers and on search engines.
For search engines to crawl your web pages and index them, it is essential to write original and relatable content. So make sure you do thorough research before writing anything on your web pages.
Development is the end goal of Website Designing and Development Processes
Now, this is the step where an actual website is built using code. All the pages and elements like sign-up, contact forms, and carts are made functional and linked to each other according to the wireframe and sitemap that was created in the planning step.
Depending on the type of website and its complexity one of the Frontend and Backend development is used.
Front-end development is used to create the element that we can see on websites, namely, pages, menus, buttons, and so on.
Front-end development, developers use.
- Java script
- HTML
- CSS
Back-end development is used to create the functionality and infrastructure of websites.
Back-end development, developers use.
- PHP
- Python
- SQL
- Ruby
Testing
Now that the website has been built, it should be tested. Every page and link must be tested to see if they are working properly. It is also important to check the view for every kind of device: computer, laptop, tabs, and smartphone to make sure things are visible and aligned on your website for every kind of device.
Also check the written content on your website: punctuation, spelling, grammatical errors and so. Nothing puts people off like badly written (grammar, spelling, alignment-wise) content on websites.
Maintenance in Web Development
After publishing a website, you are still required to check your website regularly to make sure that everything is working perfectly. And according to your services and products, you have to keep updating your website when there is a sale, offs, free trials, and so on.
And it is highly advisable to keep posting and updating content on your website for more customer engagement and to answer their questions and doubts.
Key takeaways
- Research thoroughly to get insights into your audience what their problems are, How you can solve their problems, and get to understand the existing market and your competitors
- Plan everything ahead according to your service and products: how your site is going to look, what options and functions you are going to make in your website to solve your prospect’s problem. And then create a sitemap/ framework.
- Design layouts and visual content for your website.
- Write engaging content on your website for both user experience and SEO.
- Develop your website via coding
- Test your website if everything working properly
- Keep maintaining and updating according to your service and product.
