The nitty gritty Web Development process is where production of web projects take place after all the surveying, planning, documentation and visual design iterations are approved. The key to good web development is consistency.
Through consistency, your site should appear and function the same every single visit regardless of web browser platform or device. Thank goodness for having web standards in place to help ensure consistency flows through so the look and feel remains the same.
What is Web Development?
Web Development is the process of producing the site by converting all the ideas generated and organized during the planning phases into a functioning website. By using programming languages like HTML, CSS, and PHP, etc. logic and styling are pieced and coded together.
A well balanced act help create a functioning website that offers good form (the way it should look) and function (the way it should work). In broad terms, web development is when we start building your site.
What Happens During Web Development?
Quite a lot happens but we’ll share a summary version of our web development process.
Code, More Codes and Even More Coding
By using HTML and CSS, we’ll bring your website concept to life. Thanks to your efforts invested during Information Architecture planning phase, we know what features, interactions and capabilities will need to be programmed. JavaScript and PHP will be used if advanced functionality is required.
Content Management Integration
Good thing we worked out that Content Strategy in the planning phase. The implementation of a content management system will provide long lasting value for you.
Legacy methods of creating websites involved creating individual HTML pages, each one its own file. When a website grows, maintenance is nearly impossible. Imagine updating several hundred HTML pages because your phone number changed in the footer.
Make life easier and learn more about the power of content management systems.
Usability and Browser Testing
Its a fact that your customers will interact with the site differently and have different user experiences. The same can be said regarding browsers displaying the same website differently. All these variables needs to be tested.
Usability tests can help reveal how users navigate, access and use your site. The results provide valuable insight and feedback on improvements to your site during web development.
Browser testing helps ensure that your website displays and performs consistently across all major web browsers like Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Browser testing also makes sure your site remains accessible to people using older “legacy” browsers such as Internet Explorer 6.