This article will review the development of web sites from A to Z.
Website target audience and their needs
It is important to know for what purpose websites is developed. Secondly, what benefits it will bring to its visitors. So you have to have a clear picture of your visitors, so you can make a website design, navigation and content made particularly for them. You must make such a website that it would worth to your visitors to return there again and again. To reach this goal you have to satisfy customer needs and fulfil their expectations.
You must answer the following questions:
- What is the purpose of the website?
- What will be the target audience of your website?
- What information you will provide?
For more information see "Where to begin?"
Planning of website structure
When we know the main purpose of the website, target audience and visitors' needs, second step we make is planning of a Web site.
Design
Web Design is all that you see on a website. It must be nice and eye appealing. But the specific and complex design solutions often required only for specific business fields. Most important thing is the functionality, so the visitor can quickly and easily find information they are looking for. Often our visitors wants a modern design. But we have to take into the account that every unnecesary picture or design elements increases the amount of data which visitor must download to see entire website. It is important not to overload Website with unnecessary information and graphic elements, as this will only rarely results in significant benefits (except if special design is actually needed). It must be attractive to the eye, but also comfortable, functional design.
Often our customers wants to have a website with flash animations - moving elements, especially for a modern-looking and attractive design. Of course, all that is attractive. But! In this case, you must be sure that all your visitors, the target audience will also be "modern" and have the latest versions of web browsers. Often old computers are used in offices, used only for Office programs like MS Word or Excel. So using old versions of Internet Explorer they will not be able to see those „attractive“ animations. It would be better to have normal web site than the most modern, developed using the latest technology.
Content management system
Content Management System (CMS) makes it easy to manage your website. You can easily and quickly modify and format text, images, photos, and monitor Web site statistics. You do not need any programming knowledge, just a little knowledge of the same content management system. Webbus.lt is using Joomla! CMS.
Site Testing
When the site is almost complete, we check if everything is working properly. Different browsers, particularly older versions of Internet Explorer can display the contents in a very different way.
Contents and text
In this stage we are adding the entire contents to the website - formatted text, pictures, etc.
It is important that all website texts are genuine, authentic and not copied from another site. This is very important if you want your website to be ranked well in search engines as Google.
Search Engine Optimization
To have a website is not enough. Your website must be found easily. If you have a website that does not have good ratings, users will not find you in search engines. Search engine optimization requires a lot of diligence, care, time and money.
Site maintenance and administration
When the site completed and launched, you should continue to strive to improve and promote your web site. Website is like a pet - requires constant care. If you do not have time for this, Webbus.lt can take care of your website for a reasonable price.