The Life Cycle of Website Development - Idea to Publication
You may think that publication is an odd choice for making a website available for the world, but the internet is the ultimate media outlet and a website is your published product. Like any project, whether it's a home addition, opening a store or a website, there needs to be a plan. Blue Wave Solutions leads all of their clients through organized, well supported steps to bring their ideas to a successful website solution. Each step produces a physical outcome for the clients review and approval. Our website development life cycle involves these important stages:
1) Analysis
Determine how the website enriches the current IT system, whether HR or commerce, how the website is going improve the business, how the website will join the existing system, who the target audience is and what the function of the website will be, i.e. commerce, information, support, and communication, just to name a few.
Blue Wave Solutions: Team requirements, estimated costs, hardware-software environment, estimated development time.
2) Website Fundamentals
Develop a complete outline of the business functionality of the website, including navigation, pages, and specifications - the nuts and bolts of how the website will look and work.
Blue Wave Solutions: Comprehensive specifications and website development timeline
3) Prototype Design
The prototype consists of layouts and navigation trees offering variations in color and positions. The prototype can have functionality for the client to view the website in action. The client is encouraged to provide existing documentation and graphics related to the website content. Most importantly, the client will approve a final prototype design for the website.
Blue Wave Solutions: Site design with custom built templates, images and navigation structure
4) Content Writing *Optional
Without good writing, a website is just a beautiful shell. A professional writer will work with the design and the client to create a message that brings the website to life and get it noticed by the client's target audience.
Blue Wave Solutions: Creative, unique writing to flesh out the website
5) Coding
Working with the prototype, the expert developers of Blue Wave Solutions will create the complete website for a beta release.
Blue Wave Solutions: Website for view and testing by the client.
6) Testing
Intense testing of the website functions, including data processing time, load time and navigation are key to a successful website. Blue Wave Solutions will fix any bugs; make corrections or changes as requested by the client.
Blue Wave Solution: Final Website product for publication.
7) Promotion
Making sure the website reaches the target audience involves intense Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Blue Wave Solutions realizes site promotion is an ongoing process, much like advertising, websites need to evaluate on a regular basis the success of promotion.
Blue Wave Solutions: Getting your site noticed!
8) Maintenance and Updating
Like all cycles, website development is ongoing. Once the initial site is up, it needs to keep up to date and fresh looking. Blue Wave Solutions is committed to providing ongoing support to maintain the success of the website.
Every website begins with an idea, but without the right methodology and a coherent plan, the idea gets lost and the website will fail. Blue Wave Solutions is customer committed, making sure that dreams become profitable realities. Regardless of business size, Blue Wave Solutions will create a professional unique website that exceeds customer expectations
