| What started as a simple website development has | | | | Second step is Building Specification; the base |
| taken a large pie of market share. Let me start with | | | | specifications are withdrawn from the requirement |
| the literal meaning of website development - starting | | | | analysis report. All the real information gathered in the |
| from the baseline, Offshore + Web + Site + | | | | analysis phase are used for building requirement |
| Development in simple terms means developing, | | | | specification. After requirement specification |
| coding for your website and making web page | | | | preliminary document is sent for approval then a |
| available on the web and later offshoring your | | | | written proposal is made and scope and effort |
| website services. Or you can say, website | | | | estimation is also prepared. |
| development means developing a website and | | | | Third step Design & Development, in this step |
| making it available on the World Wide Web to | | | | after requirement specification and getting all proposal |
| promote your product and services and contribute to | | | | documents, contract documents and money signed |
| global information base. | | | | for, and graphics and layouts specification documents |
| Basically web development follows web design phase | | | | from client we move to design phase. |
| and spans from coding for simple static web pages | | | | Customer/client can be in touch, by sending e-mails, |
| to complex applications pages, complete website | | | | feedback, can send comment using contact us form, |
| development life cycle needs to be monitored with | | | | for very urgent message can use facsimile services |
| caution. Web Development is one of the fastest | | | | or can contact directly through telephones. |
| growing industry in this IT edge. Graphics designer, | | | | Before actual design is finalized, design and layout are |
| web editor, flash developer, designers all together | | | | designed as a prototype with different variations |
| look into the requirement, i.e. requirement analysis is | | | | offering customer with choice. Customer can be |
| must and then step into development and coding | | | | offered full prototype with interactivity, based on |
| phase, development is not design but coding for | | | | customer feedback lots of changes may be required |
| design template. | | | | to make. All the required changes should be made |
| Web Development cost depends on various factors: | | | | and all problems should be fixed before moving |
| complexity of design, content of the website. With | | | | ahead. |
| advancement in technology, technology has gifted | | | | Test plan is major milestone in this step which needs |
| developers with many free web development tools | | | | to be developed during design phase to assure |
| like LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) that will bring | | | | quality. Finally site template, design, images are sent |
| down your development cost, CMS (Content | | | | for client approval. |
| Management System - Typo3, Joomla), WYSIWYG, | | | | Fourth step involves writing quality, theme content |
| all these help to control, edit, manage contents with | | | | for the website. This is very crucial from visitor's |
| having in-depth knowledge of the softwares. With | | | | point as the site needs to be very informative and |
| the Microsoft product Dot.Net has enabled to run | | | | theme related and this will in real drive your website |
| applications online. | | | | as these days websites are quality content driven. |
| With digitalization of world and integration of various | | | | Content writer can use template finalized in the |
| modules separated geographically all changes are | | | | design step. |
| reflected dynamically in this real world and fetching | | | | Moving to the coding step, it is developers turn now |
| information is easy these days. E-commerce is best | | | | but before proceeding developers should understand |
| example for this that lets visitors to shop online, all | | | | the design code and navigation and proceed in a way |
| transactions being managed from the backend; you | | | | so that design code, template look and feel is |
| just enjoy shopping, placing orders without bothering | | | | retained. If needed, developers may interact with |
| about its other side happening. Emerging social | | | | designers for proper co-ordination and better |
| networking sites are another set of examples of | | | | understanding the design template. Coding team |
| web development that influenced the worldwide | | | | should also generate test plans to check all forms |
| communication network and helped disseminating | | | | and field and make development step bug free and |
| useful information among members of the | | | | maintain integrity with different segments. |
| communities. | | | | Development team uses the SRS (Software |
| Starting with the generic web template and moving | | | | Requirement Specification) or FSD (Functional |
| towards customized web templates we get benefits | | | | Specification Documentation) that are prepared by |
| like more clarity and better placement of various web | | | | technical writer and approved by client as a guide |
| components, more flexibility in functionality and | | | | that speeds up the over all process. At the other end |
| presentation of website, its look and feel can be | | | | coding team can prepare document for end-user that |
| improved. Many firms these days specialize in | | | | can be used for preparing user manuals and help |
| providing custom web site development solutions for | | | | guides. |
| all size of business that helps you to promote your | | | | Testing is an important step in development of a |
| website's product and services and improve traffic. | | | | website. Whether automated testing or manual |
| Security, software testing are important aspects that | | | | testing both are important and mandatory. Many |
| follow website development. Quality web services | | | | online testing tools and online free testing tools are |
| promise to take your business to new level of | | | | available for testing various applications. White box, |
| business. | | | | black box testing and application testing is done. Also |
| Web Development covers different areas: | | | | application is tested if it can run on different |
| Client Side Coding for layout and design that includes: | | | | browsers and similar other functionalities are tested. |
| CSS - Cascading Style Sheets is used to describe | | | | Finally live testing after website is made available |
| presentation of document written in markup | | | | online is carried. |
| language. | | | | Website needs to be promoted and it should reach |
| Flash - Adobe flash player (most popular) is used to | | | | the potential customers once it is online. With the |
| create content for movies, games, mobile phones | | | | changing search engine strategies website design |
| Javascript - is a scripting language used for client side | | | | should be search engine friendly (designers at the |
| web development | | | | beginning should take care otherwise it may become |
| XHTML - Extensible Hyper text Markup Language is | | | | difficult to optimize the website). Website promotion |
| an application of XML | | | | is an ongoing strategy, first step is competitor |
| Server Side Coding for website functionality and back | | | | analysis, target market research, keyword selection |
| end system that includes: | | | | for targeting the market, then websites are initially |
| ASP and MySQL- | | | | submitted to directories and submission continues at |
| ASP.NET and MySQL | | | | regular interval. |
| CGI and Perl | | | | Websites need to be maintained and update, as |
| Cold Fusion | | | | search engine always index sites that have new |
| Java, J2EE | | | | information to offer, else your site will gradually faint |
| PHP and MySQL | | | | away. Regular analysis and bug fixing is part of this |
| Python | | | | maintenance process. This also involves educating; |
| Ruby | | | | training team members to meet challenges and keep |
| Looking inside the website development phase: | | | | themselves update with the knowledge of the |
| First step is analysis, studying and understanding | | | | emerging latest technologies and meet the challenges |
| client's requirement, base requirement of the website, | | | | of tomorrow. |
| its target market and audience, its benefits over the | | | | Highlights in true prospect include web engineering |
| existing system, its incorporation with the existing | | | | and re-engineering and quality and timeliness will be |
| system with the help of chat, documents, discussions. | | | | the resultant for your product and services. For more |
| Every plan should be realistic and based on certain | | | | information on website development and offshore |
| real figures like resources involved, documents | | | | web site development feel free to contact us any |
| needed, hardware and software requirement, cost | | | | time. |
| involved, manpower and finally the cost benefit. | | | | |