Considerations before planning a website
Time: Flexible
Resource: How much.. is it enough, cost advantageous? Build in-house? Or outsource entirely>
Budget: Right mix of skills
Define Scope>
Its vary important to define the scope of the project. Who are going to access the website and what are their needs to build a website that reflects those needs.
Process of building website involves the follwoin
Strategy formulation
User Experience Definition
Architecture Design Process
Implementation
Test
Fix
Launch
Strategy Formulation
Development/Improvement of new/existing site
User Experience Definition
User Type
Brainstorm to find user type, consolidate in groups based on similarities of needs and try to understand who and what.
User Intention
Describes the tasks that the user is trying to accomplish and what processes they expect to go through in order to be successful
Functionality and content mix
It is possible to define what functions have to be performed and when
Also a process flow from start to finish must be designed , with a description of the screen that the user would see, and the content and fuctions should be available at any given time.
Following these steps, it is possible to build a “use case” scenario.
Architecture Design Process
The look and feel of the website or the context - what functions the site will need and how these functions will be represented on screen
Site map and Page schematics
Technical Discovery
Implementation
Validation
Build Phase
Development
Back-end development
Interface development
Interactive development
Content development
Building process
Design the technical infrastructure
Design the technical components
Build the components
Integrate these components
Test components, individually and integrated
Refine system based on these results
Launch the website
Before building computer language and architecture of hardware and software environments have to be set . Concerning languages the following points have to be considered
Available skills
Portability
Cost
Scalability
Page design
Unique Pages
Template Pages.
Design style guide
Interface Development
Application Development
Test/Fix
Test scripts/use cases
Unit testing
Integration Testing
Systems Testing
Load testing
Launch
Select hosting facility
Build and test the servers
Test the connectivity
Audit the security of the overall system
Monday, November 20, 2006
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