Website Design Project Life-cycle

A successful website relies on much more than merely its visual design. Careful analysis of consumer wants and needs is essential to the delivery of a successfully designed website. At WEB BITE DESIGN, we follow these 4 working practices or methods within a project life-cycle:

These all depend on numerous deliverables and milestones to move the project forward. WEB BITE DESIGN are here to help guide you through the process with clarity and ease. So, where do we start? The first step in your project will be the Website Exploration Phase.

Website Exploration

It is during this phase that our team spends a lot of time getting to know you and your business. We will need to determine:

What is the purpose of this website?
What are your marketing objectives?
Who is your audience and what are their expectations?
What message are you trying to convey?
Who are your competitors?

Once we achieve a thorough understanding of your place in the market and your business needs, we will make recommendations of how to best achieve your goals.

The information that we uncover during this phase will provide us with the foundations for our Website Creation Phase.

Website Creation

Our designers take the results of the Website Exploration Phase and begin to come up with a concept for your website. Typically, we will offer a range of website designs and discuss with you each one in turn in regards to usability and ease-of-use. Designing the look and feel for your website is just one deliverable of this phase; there are other tasks that we will seek understanding and agreement on:

Determining the architecture of your website by developing a detailed site map.
If there is any technical development, we will need to make sure that the design of the functionality meets all of our usability standards.

Now that we have decided on the look of your website and have identified all of the pages that will need to be constructed, we are ready to start constructing the website in the Website Evolution Phase.

Website Evolution

Working to the design developed in the Website Creation Phase our team is ready to construct the pages of your website. During this phase we will do the following:

Construct the navigational architecture with usability best practices
Populate all pages with graphics and content
Code any technical requirements into the site - including database & e-Commerce functionality and website interactivity
Create all animations, menus, and multimedia components

The emerging website will be located on one of our development servers for you to see and discuss prior to its 'live' location. The final phase of the project life-cycle is the Website Deployment Phase

Website Deployment

Prior to your website going-live we will need to do the following:

Thoroughly test the website to ensure an optimum user experience
Determine a website launch plan - emails, newsletters, PPC
We will submit your site to the appropriate search engines (if required) please read about our search engine optimisation service

If you feel that our Website Project Life-cycle is the way that you would like to work with your Website Designers then please contact us.

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