Things
to Remember for a Successful Web Development Project
Successful web development doesn’t
come easy. There are ways to achieve success in this heavily contested field.
Read on to learn how to create a successful project.
1.
Start with a clear and detailed specification
The only way for the developers and
designers to be sure of whether they know what they want their site to do is to
have a clear and detailed specification.
Brainstorming and discussions
sessions are great for this and often result in each program having a unique
picture in head.
This means there is no substitute to
writing and noting the details in order to get everyone agreed to the specifications
of the project.
2.
Make sure your team has the required skills
If you have not had a proper talk
with web professionals or a good deal of homework, then you might consider web
designing and web development the same thing.
The truth is that they both are
distinct and have different job roles. Designers are artists and are
responsible for making the look of a website beautiful and well organized.
Developers, on the other hand, are technicians concerned with the world of
details and coding part.
3.
Check for track records of team and their responsiveness
How will you assess the skills of
your prospective web development team? Since most of the business owners are
now an expert in all these skills, one needs to learn a few details to make
technical evaluation and assessment.
The few areas where you can make a
check are:
·
The past performance
indicates the future results,
·
look for their
previous works and website, and
·
ask about its
specifications and job roles.
In case your project requires several
capabilities and features beyond the basics of a website developer or designer
you have, you need to discuss them with a hired web development firm in advance
and check whether the team has worked on the same features or not!
4.
Don’t underestimate content and coordination tasks
A successful web development is dependent
on the right balance of design and coding skills and thus you will require
content curation, , content development, etc. These aspects
are usually overlooked at the start but even a small negligence and
under-resourcing might result in disasters.
Most of the new business owners tend
to get astonished to know how much work is to be done in order to gather all
the coordination and content in all aspects of a project.
You might want to handle all the
tasks in-house and let the design and web development work be done by
outsourcing them to appropriate web development and design firms. You must have
enough inclination and reason to do so.
5.
Plan to test, revise, and iterate
No matter how well organized your
project specifications are and irrespective of how experienced and talented
your web development team is – it is unrealistic to expect everything to come
out as you have expected the very first time.
While creating the visual outlay of
your website and noting the specifications, the team is usually working on a
small amount of content. As and when the real content is added, issues arise
and the website faces problems.
Written by Lara Harding. Lara is a design student who stepped into the field of web development by a chance. However, she started liking it when people started appreciating his skill and quality. She is known to get projects done fast and without errors. Heraim always remains to have code coherence and ease of understanding. To know more about her work, visit: