A website is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Notable examples are wikipedia.org, google.com. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web(www).
The website can help you to generate business, increase brand recall value, promote goodwill in front of customers and target audience, as well as deliver strong marketing messages. The website delivers the marketing message 24 hours, 365 days in a year.
The website can help to establish the business as a going concern, communicate the brand value proposition and it can convey professionalism. It also extends your reach to anyone in the world.
Following are the steps to create website:
STEP 1- COLLECT ION OF DATA: PURPOSE, GOALS, TARGET AUDIENCE
At this stage discovering and researching is done. It determines to show the steps will look like. The most important point is to clear understand of your website purposes, the main goals you wish to get, and the target audience you want to attract to your site.
STEP 2- PLANNING
At this stage of the website development cycle, the developer creates the data that shoes how the entire will look like. How one should go step by step to reach the main goal.
STEP 3 -DESIGNING
In this phase your website takes shape. Such as the visual content, images, photos, and videos etc. This is the crucial step as when you design you have to keep in mind your targeted audience so that it is easy for them to understand.
STEP 4- CONTENT WRITING
Content writing and compiling of the work usually gets overlaps with other stages of website creation. At this step, it is necessary to put in writing , like to communicate to the audience of your website and add calls-to-action. This also involves the creation of catching headlines, text editing, writing new text, compiling the existing text, etc., which takes time and effort.
STEP 5 – CODING
At this step, you finally start creating the website. Graphic elements that have been designed during the previous stages should be used to create an actual website.The home page is created first, and then all sub-pages are added, according to the website hierarchy that was created in the form of a sitemap.
STEP 6 –TESTING& REVIEW
At this stage, testing of each process is done and also it must a part of daily routine. Every single link should be tested to make sure that there are no errors. You should check/review every form, every script, run a spell-checking software to find possible typos. Use code validators to check if your code follows the current web standards.
STEP 7 – LAUNCH OF WEBSITE
At this stage, after testing and reviewing everything, it’s the time to launch the website, which means now the customers can view your profile. The website is ready to go publicly . After this launching, the customers can check out about the Company Brand, Vision & Mission, Product Catalogue, Services etc. on website.
STEP 8 -MAINTAINENCE
At this stage , You should make sure that everything works fine, and everybody is satisfied and always be prepared to make changes in another case. If you find any problem you should update it, and also with regular monitoring should be done.
