The web development cycle

What is the web development cycle for getting your idea into a web development reality?

It is Monday morning and a light bulb just lit up in the dark corner of your mind. You have just had a great idea for a website.

So what’s next?

Online Strategy – You will need to work out the business strategy and requirements. This idea has to pay for itself otherwise you are going to struggle for no gain.

Once you have solid groundwork built you might approach a web development firm and see what they can do to make your idea into a website. Once this process starts there is 4 main stages that the project will go through.

1.Pre-Production: This is where the wireframes are created and the functionality of the site described. This is the most important part as it will determine the eventual success or failure of the site.

2. Design: This is where the creativity comes in. The artwork and designs begin as concepts then are fleshed out into the look and feel of your site.

3. Slicing: This is the conversion from design into HTML. Here we make the front end of the website work.

4. Development: This is the hardest part of the project building the backend and making it interact with the frontend of the website and making sure all functionality is included from the pre-production.

5. Testing & Deployment: This is the best bit you will be finalising content and testing the site getting it ready to go live. Once everything is tested and all pages are present and working the site can be deployed this is exciting and you can see all the time and effort that has been made come to life.

So that’s it a simple overview of the web development process.