Creating a website (website development) is a process very similar to creating furniture. If we take the furniture and the very components of this final result, we can understand what it consists of – this is on the one hand. And on the other hand, it is not quite clear how exactly from the parts this or that specialist got the finished result.
For example, we all know that a table is made of boards. If we take a board or bar, they don’t really resemble a finished tabletop, especially if decor was used in its making. The boards themselves are made from a log. The log is barked on the outside until it reaches the board stage, it will also take time, as processing is necessary. And the log itself is basically a planted sapling. A sapling and a log are quite difficult to connect. The sapling is so squishy, and here it is a whole log.
The same situation with the site. To understand how to create it is necessary to understand how all the elements that make up the site are connected, to understand the process of transition from one to another. Each of the elements that appear in the transition from one stage to another, on the one hand, carries the features of the previous stage, the material, and on the other hand, already has something new.
For example, if we talk about a board, we must understand that it is, on the one hand, as hard as a log, but flat and thin. It is already sanded and looks very different, but it has the features of that same log. Here’s such, a little confusing analogy, but I think it’s clear.
Stages of site creation
Of course, the easiest way to write the phrase, which is now very often used in advertising “site creation from scratch. It would seem that it could be easier and clearer – just a site and all? But it is not. The more detailed and competent work to create a site will be divided into stages, the more highly specialized professionals will be involved in each type of work, the more likely that the end result will be what it was intended.
- Recognize the need.
- Formulate an idea.
- Create a technical specification.
- Develop a scheme of arrangement of elements.
- Draw the design.
- Create an HTML template.
- Program the content environment.
Process of site creation
Awareness of the need
The first thing we need – is to realize the need, that is, a person who is directly to the customer, it may be the owner or manager of the enterprise, ie, the one who pays for this work, who will be the beneficiary of this work, in the end, should be aware of the need, and it must be described.
- Formulate an idea.
What is an idea? It is an answer to the question of what needs to be done. If we have a problem, we must decide what we need to do to solve it.
For example, the problem or challenge is to increase sales. We decide to sell our product or service online. This is the simplest example of the problem, which seeks to solve by creating a website The idea in this case should sound like this: to create a website to sell our products on the Internet.
- Create the terms of reference
What are the terms of reference? In this case, we’re talking about a textual terms of reference. This is a list of necessary solutions, which should be implemented on the basis of what should be the result of the site.
The terms of reference create special people – these are either content managers, or copywriters who have studied the sites, and knowing that we need it to be, describe it.
For example, the idea is written that it is necessary to create an online store to sell tables. Specialist describes the number of pages that must be, including about the company, the home page, contacts, online stores, product pages, and so on. Describes what should be on this or that page.
- Develop a scheme of arrangement of elements (prototyping)
The requirements specification is the basis for creating an arrangement of elements. What is the scheme of arrangement of elements? This stage is also called prototyping, and this definition is not quite right, because anything can be called a prototype.
- Drawing the design
Once the location of elements created and coordinated, we give it to the designer. And the designer, based on what is written in the TOR, requests and collects the necessary data, and then draws a design of the site – the way it should look like.
And at this stage it is important to understand what web design is different from conventional design. On the one hand, the work to create a conventional and web design is very similar, it is in any case, drawing a picture. On the other hand, there are important differences.
- Compose HTML template.
Then, based on the traced design is created html template (this is also called the layout of the site or template). Because the finished design we give it to the codifier.
Dostalchik – is the person who has the knowledge of how to make up this or that element, drawn in web design, so that it would be displayed in the browser, just as drawn.