Monday, June 2, 2008

Website Development Project Planning

Development process of a website consists of different component. Some of them may be totally new for us, some of them are well understood or some of them are totally miss guided by us. Here are some aspects of a web development project.

When we are starting a project we must have some assertions within our mind. Like “ Our site is outdated”, “ create or add new functionality”, “ New design”. When we got any task like this the 1st and foremost picture in our mind is focusing about the design. Isn’t it? But this is totally wrong.

Need Analysis

A better project planning includes establishing the needs from the beginning. Need of a website that does not makes any sense. What that require is to understand the need of your targeted audience, needs of your customer, your business and how your website is going to fulfill those in an effective manner. Clearly find out your target and setup small milestones to achieve them and the tasks you are actually going to do to achieve the milestones. This part of the project is know as the need analysis and is a vital part of the project planning.

What might happen if we are not going through proper need analysis is misunderstanding, a customer remains uninformed until and unless he goes through it and may feels this is not what he needs although he has asked for it.

Content and Presentation

Separate the content from the design, presentation and graphics. Take the help of Web Development Service Provider, Content management system (CMS), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). As we know one of the other advantage of using CMS is the site can be managed by any non-techies.

Making Search engines friendly Website

It’s likely that you want a lot of visitor once you finish and lunches your site and to get visitor you need to establish your site on major search engine like Google. And you have to make your site search engine friendly to be establishes on them. Search engines indexes your site by reading its content, not the look so make ready the contents, navigation, functionality and then think about the design and graphics of the site. Consider SEO right from the start
  • Research your market and understand what people are searching for (Keyword Analysis)
  • Write content that matches your research (Keyword Specific Content)
  • Build your site using clean code and well-tagged content (Search engine friendly Content Optimization)
  • Measure it all and fine tune it with an analytics package (tracking the traffic and business)
  • Repeat until you succeed!

Pay attention to the visitors

Once you get visitors from search engines also you may get the business that you want so make your site attractive so designing also has it’s own importance. Take the help of professional web designer
Here are some design tips:
  • Try to avoid Flash
  • Follow the web standards
  • Don't use tables for design layout
  • Don't use any inline styles, use CSS
Success on the web is never been an easy task. Be updated and needs to follow right direction, adopt many aspects at the right time

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