What are the steps to take to design a website ? Is it an easy or difficult process to create a web page?
One of the key points that we must take into account before
creating a website is undoubtedly the procedure that we are going to follow. In
this way, you can have the guarantee that you achieve your goal, you can save
your budget and your website will meet quality criteria so that it can be truly
useful.
What phases does the design of a website have
Many will tell you that creating a website is easy. Even
today you can do it with some free platforms. The problem is that many times
these websites have many limitations and they are practically not going to be
of any use to you, or you are not going to get good results in terms of
positioning, design and user experience.
So that you are clear about the steps and phases of
designing a website, we invite you to take these aspects into account.
1. Analysis
The most important thing when designing a website is to
clearly define our goals. Decide what type of website we want, know the market
in which we are going to move and the most common uses in our sector.
Without prior research, you may be able to create a website,
but after a while you will realize its shortcomings, or even strategy errors,
since that was not exactly what you were looking for.
For example, you create a basic corporate website, but what
you need is a web store or electronic commerce.
2. Strategy design
Once we have spoken with our clients, the essential thing is
to create a strategy on how we are going to create the web.
•We can use, for example, a CMS, such as WordPress, or
develop it to measure.
•You can already be clear about the domain name that we are
going to use, depending on our SEO objectives.
•We can have already decided the hosting that we are going
to use, according to our hard disk capacity forecasts.
•You can set deadlines to ensure that the launch date of the
website will coincide with the dates you require.
3. Web architecture
Defining the architecture and the link map of our website is
another of the key points that we must take into account.
Depending on whether we have decided to create a custom
website or use a CMS, the work may be more or less laborious. But in any case,
you have to define the architecture of your website, what levels it is going to
have and what is the procedure that the user must follow to meet a certain
objective.
When working with a management system, choosing a good
template or theme is key at this point. Although later we can carry out
improvements and customizations, cleaning the code is essential so that later
the web has good usability.
4. Content creation
A website can have a very elegant and attractive design, but
you need content. Point three was the construction of the skeleton of the web.
You can fill that web perfectly with texts "lorem ipsum" and images
by default to have a general outline of how it will turn out.
But here we are already getting into one of the most
important aspects; and it is to define what content (images, texts, videos ...)
are going to be used. The choice of content is essential for one simple reason:
it influences SEO, it influences user experience, and it also influences
conversion.
In the content area, we must not forget either the content
of a legal nature, to which your website is obliged to comply with the data
protection regulations and the cookie law.
If you need content for your website, take a look at our
positioning services.
5. Execution of design and programming
Once everything is clear, it is stretch to design and
program. Many times the design will be done with a standard in mind, but other
times it will be necessary to carry out tests, study different web models and
carry out an A / B test to see which one receives the best results and best
meets your objectives.
In the design and programming phase, whether we use a CMS or
develop the web from scratch, we must make sure that everything conforms to
certain parameters, that we follow a quality standard and that the web really
delivers what it promises.
6. Launch and testing
When we develop a website from scratch, we cannot simply
make it available to users without first having carried out the appropriate
quality tests. It is convenient to test that everything works, analyze the logs
file to see what errors occur on the web, as well as see the response of the
web to a high number of requests and operations.