February 2008
5 posts
BENEFITS OF TEAM WEB DEVELOPMENT
Better Communication To make appropriate decisions quickly during the development process, you need to keep a tremendous amount of detail in mind so you can evaluate the ripple effects of various decisions. For example, how will adding a particular feature affect other features? Site navigation? Data preparation? Testing? Will incorporating a nifty new JavaScript function require users to have the...
Designing and Prototyping
Website development is an iterative process. Imagine yourself in a valley, gazing at the majestic peak of a nearby mountain that represents the successful completion of your website project. The distance might be only one mile as the crow flies. You may envision yourself steadily marching in workmanlike fashion right up to the top; however, once you start, you find that this is impossible, the...
DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT
Specialists on both the technology and creative end will work simultaneously on the project. The project manager must coordinate the efforts. In the early planning stages, the project manager has identified strategic objectives for the site with key stakeholders. In order to answer the basic three questions outlined previously, the project manager has gathered information from others around the...
Functional Design
The functional design is a definition of what the website will enable users to do. What are you building? Answering this question is the starting point for any design work. You need to clearly determine what the website will do before you can plan how to accomplish it, what the site will look like, or what it will cost. The functional brief answers that question. Execution is not described in the...
Technical Design
Ideally, you will have involved some members of the technical team in development of your concept. By participating in the process, they will have had the opportunity to raise any concerns about implementing the site’s functions as described. In the technical design process, programmers, software engineers, database administrators, or other technical personnel decide how to implement...