An effective website is dependent on many factors including the visual elements of site design and how it has been designed for persuasion, usability, accessibility and performance.
Website must deliver relevance and satisfactory online experience for its audience, support and add value to the brand to deliver results for the company.
The main tasks are as follows: pre-development tasks, analysis and design, content development testing, publishing or launching the site.
Typical profiles of team members follow: site sponsors, site owner, project manager, site designer, content developer, webmaster.
Prototypes are trial versions of a website that are gradually refined through an iterative process to become closer to the final version.
The goal of agile development is to be able to create stable release more frequently than traditional development methodologies.
Key requirements for an online presence: business requirements and user requirements which comprise usability, accessibility and information needs.
Customer-centricity for website design is the decision whether to include specific content for particular countries. This is referred to as localization.
Benchmarking of competitors’ websites is vital in positioning a website to compete effectively with competitors that already have websites.
Information architecture is the art and science of structuring and classifying websites and intranets to help people find and manage information.
Using card sorting is a way in which users can become actively involved in the development process of information architecture.
Deciding on the page template design for different forms of landing pages is particularly important for site owners seeking to maximise conversion rate.