ocSinet’s site development protocol
Our first step in building a website is to create a list of the various functions the site will fulfil. Do the contents need to be updated regularly? Who is the intended audience? Will there be many internal users on the site and is there a need for varying degrees of restricted access? This list then informs a second analysis of how these functional aspects and content (text and pictures) will fit together to make up the site.
We then develop a communication strategy that ensures synergy between your business, the site and your products. We understand that a successful site cannot be made without the following steps:
- A complete evaluation and discussion of the structural requirements of your site.
- A cost-benefit analysis of these various structural options.
- An evaluation of the outreach and diffusion aims for the site.
- Planning a site whose look and structure fit your business and not visa versa!
Pre-construction
- Detailed consultation with the client.
- A study and discussion of the navigational map of the site.
- Structuring the graphic layout, preparing and acquiring or producing essential content including photographs, video, flash animation, illustrations, etc.
- Evaluation of the communication structure.
- Structuring the administrator and user areas for dynamic sites.
Production
- Preparation of the graphic and text content.
- Gather feedback for the client with regards the graphics, if they are approved we proceed, otherwise we go back to the previous step.
- Implementation of the graphic template with the XHTML and CSS
programming
- Database development (dynamic sites only).
- Development of the web applications (for dynamic sites) or the reference pages (for static sites).
- Initialise the meta-tag data, title and to for search engine optimisation.
- Perform an initial test of all the applications (dynamic sites only)
- Validate the XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 code for each and every page of the site.
Fine Tuning
- Revise the graphic and text content if necessary after receiving feedback from the client.
- Final checks of the administrator and/or user interfaces (dynamic sites only).
- Final testing of all web applications (dynamic sites only).
- Publish and start the diffusion process.
- Evaluate the diffusion process after 3 months.
Standard Maintenance
- Backup of the database and contents of the site.
- Ensure the servers work at optimum efficiency.
- Verify that the search engines are accessing the correct information.
- Optimising the database.
- Any necessary checking and updating of the site related to the help contract.
