Just like any other project development, website building needs to follow a step-by-step procedure in order to succeed. Website development phases serve as your guide so that your project will not end-up a crap.

Basically, website development process follow this the following phases:

Planning and Decision Making

The planning stage is important as this is the time you set your website decision and goal, analyze the feasibility, gather the resources needed, and most of all build the framework or skeleton of your target project. You will also be deciding for your domain and register for a website hosting service.

Graphic Design

After the planning stage you can start working for graphic design based on the approved draft or project skeleton. This is the time you use resources like adobe and other graphic design applications or editor. Your graphic designer is needed in this phase.

Website Development/Coding

When graphic designing is done, it is time to start working on coding. Your web developer takes a big responsibility during this stage. This is the phase where slicing of pages is done and it includes coding not just the front-end (the user interface) but the back-end functions of the design also. It is important that the person you assign to website development or coding is knowledgeable in different programming languages and databases.

Testing

Testing is next and this is also important because it is not a wise practice to just publish your website without even trying and checking if it functions the way it is planned . Testing and tracing possible errors in all the pages is very important. You need to check if the links, input form, menu, and plug-ins are functioning well – based on the goal you have set.

Website Launching

When bugs are fixed, your website is then ready for launching. Please note, by the way, it is a useful strategy that you let website users in your niche know about the launching of your website. That can be a very good start – attracting individuals at the very start. You can do that by posting announcement, upcoming events on your social networking account like Facebook or Twitter.

Updates and Maintenance

Lastly, when you have successfully published your website, your next task- and it is an ongoing task – is to prepare your self in doing maintenance -which might be needed daily- as well as for future updates.