The amount of business done online has grown dramatically in the last few years. This means, of course, that websites and website development design is of great importance to businesses.
Web development involves designing, analysing and testing the software to be used on the website. So whether you are developing a small, simple website or a large commercial site, the steps of web development are the same. And as the next step in the process, web design comes to life through web development.
Web design involves designing the look and feel of a website. It also determines the layout and operational flow of your website. A clear and precise operational flow plays a crucial role in directing traffic to your website. Effective website design is just one of the aspects of the ever-expanding area of website promotion that can make a considerable difference to the success of your business.
The first step in any website development is planning and analysis. This involves finding the appropriate design for your website and analysing the factors that lead to a good design plan, the costs and labour, including number of programmers and/or marketing strategies required to convert the plan into reality.
The next step in web development is the feasibility analysis. This involves studying marketing factors and deciding whether the proposed web architecture is the best proposed solution for your website.
Once your website has been developed, it needs to be tested and published. That is, your website needs to be examined for errors and to confirm its presence over Internet. SEO (search engine optimization) and SMO (social media optimization) are techniques to promote your website on the Internet. This is when your online marketing plan comes into play. All of the various marketing strategies devised during planning will be used to promote your website. Since marketing is an ongoing task, the web development team will stay involved with publishing changes for the website on a regular basis, making it rank higher with search engines.
In most cases there is a design team dedicated to the designing of the website, and there is a separate team to promote the website. The marketing team continuously performs content development, testing of the website, marketing, analytics and other important aspects of website development.
The author is a journalist in profession and has written many articles regarding Web Design and Search Engine Optimization.