Web site creation work structure.

This article is written to gain a client’s time and minimize site creation time. The whole process of site creation understanding will enable a customer to control web site creation stages and evaluate a web developer job.
 

1. Web site creation goal. Site target audience.

This is one of the most important stages. If a customer cannot formulate an order, a performer cannot comply with the customer’s wishes and obtain a result desired by the client.

A customer must define, first of all for himself, what he creates a site for and what audience it will be oriented on. 

To set a task correctly is half-way to an eventual result. That is why we actively recommend taking a definition of web site creation goal and setting site developers a task maximally seriously.

A site developer can give a web site brief to a customer which represents a kind of a form. While filling a form a customer understands clearly what he wants with a website.

Main goals of web site creation are presented in the article “What a website is required for”. 
 

2. Sphere of action analysis. Competitors’ research.

After communication with a customer a performer enters upon a client’s sphere of action analysis to understand clearly the specific of working on the project – customer business peculiarities (seasonality, target group, market size etc.)

Simultaneously competitive landscape research in Internet takes place – competitors’ sites strengths and weaknesses. This information will enable developers to create a conceptual product fit with customer business demands maximum.
 

3. Website type definition, technical enquiry (TE) and site structure development  

This stage is a customer and site developer team-work. Technical enquiry (TE) formation for a site development which includes:

• General site characteristic (site goals and tasks, language versions, main site sections etc.);
• Site type (corporate site, online business card portal, e-shop etc.);
• Site design and stylistics;
• Site structure. 
   

4. Site design development

Like the previous stage this one falls into some divisions:

• Several design ideas development. Ideas can be presented both text format and rough design. These ideas are given to a customer.
• Site model development. Site design creation by performer’s painters. 
• Work with customer’s comments. Site model finalization in accordance with final customer requests.

Website creation means all supposed site blocks fulfillment. If text and graphical materials are not ready at the time of site model development, so-called “boilerplate” can be used, but the most important to remember is – there must not be any empty blocks in the model.   
 

5. HTML-CSS layout

There are some requirements to site layout but they always have to answer to site purposes and tasks. 

• Crossbrowserness – pages have to be displayed at different browsers equally (Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc.).
• Layout flexibility – possibility to add (delete) information to (from) pages.
• Quickness of code processing with a browser’s help.
• Validity - standards compliance.
• Semantic correctness - logical and accurate  usage of HTML elements