Today I will tell you about what you will encounter when you contact a web studio or a freelancer for website development. The process of creating a website is, in principle, approximately the same for everyone. But now you will know what stages you need to go through and you will be ready for them. Let's go!

First, I will give you a brief plan so that you understand whether this article is useful to you or not, and then we will go through each of the points in detail.

General plan for creating a website

1. Meeting, negotiations, defining goals, deadlines, cost
2. Prepayment
3. Defining key stages of development, drawing up technical specifications
4. Collecting materials for the site
5. Analysis of these materials
6. Domain, hosting
7. Site layout, prototype
8. Design
9. Layout
10. Setting up the CMS site management system
11. Uploading content, connecting third-party services
12. Testing, finding errors
13. Project delivery, launch
14. Payment
15. Transferring access and passwords from the site
16. Training
17. Advertising, promotion - attracting visitors to the site

This article contains screenshots of one of my website creation cases: "Vozvodov" is a company engaged in the construction and renovation of country houses.

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Now let's take things in order. The only thing is, I will write as if you and I want to launch a website. I think it will be more informative this way

1. Meeting, negotiations

The very first and most important thing you should know is that you can't just pay money and withdraw, unfortunately. If you don't want to participate in the project, the result will most likely be disastrous. We must understand this from the very beginning, okay?)

Second. Any project is preceded by negotiations. This can be a personal meeting, a phone call or communication in messengers. Here it is important to decide on what you want to get and what goals you are pursuing. At such a meeting, you will have many questions that will help both me and you understand what we have at the start, what are the inputs. As a rule, after productive negotiations, you can determine the cost and timing of the project.

2. Prepayment

This is a normal practice in many service areas, including websites. Only beginners do not take prepayment. Accordingly, the risk of wasting your time is higher for you if you contact a low-skilled specialist - take this into account. If in doubt - sign a contract.

3. Defining key stages of development

This is, in fact, the start of the project. Here we will determine the order of work and adhere to it. In fact, this article is a list of stages of website development.

4. Collection of materials for the site

This is where you will have to work. The site needs a lot of different information - lists of services, information about the company, photos, contacts, reviews, etc. You will have to prepare all this and send it to me. There is a full list of all kinds of content units for the site, located here.

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5. Analysis of these materials

It seems simple, the materials are there - we begin development. But these materials still need to be reviewed and analyzed.
A simple example:
One of the points for collecting information is a list of competitors. At a minimum, you need to look at them to understand - how and what methods they use on their sites. This will help make our site better than others. That's all.

It is better not to neglect this.

6. Domain, hosting

Everything is simple here, we need to:
- choose a free site name and register a domain;
- register on the hosting;
- issue an SSL certificate so that the site works on https.

7. Site layout, prototype

We need to think through and approve the locations of all the blocks on the site and make a list of pages. If you go to any site, you will see that the pages of the site have a certain structure, sometimes even similar to each other. This structure can consist of different blocks: the upper part of the site with a logo and contacts, menu, slider, list of services, advantages, reviews, etc. To understand how all this will be located, we present the future pages in a schematic form.

I have an example of a universal scheme, you can see it here

8. Design

There are two options here:
1. We take a prototype and give it to a designer to make us a unique design layout;
2. We buy a ready-made design layout or an HTML template that suits our wishes.

In the first case, we get a completely unique design of the future site, but spend additional time and money on the services of a designer.

In the second case, our template may be found on some other project (though the probability of this tends to zero), but we save time and money. The template is cheaper than the services of a designer.

9. Layout

If at the previous stage we bought a ready-made HTML template, then we skip this stage and, accordingly, also save. If we used the services of a designer, then we need to translate the design layout into an HTML template, which will open in the browsers of our future visitors.

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10. Setting up a content management system (CMS)

An Html template is a website code that can already work, but there is one problem - to make any changes to such a website, you need to be a programmer. Therefore, we connect a CMS system to the website. The management system makes it easier to add news to the website, upload photos, change prices and make any other edits.

11. Loading content

After the layout and connection of the CMS, we have a "skeleton" of the website, i.e. a system on which all the information available on the website will be held. Actually, this is the information that needs to be uploaded:
+ Create a list of services
+ Descriptions for them
+ Information about the company and team
+ Prices
+ Photos
+ Reviews
and more..

For online stores, you also need to upload a product catalog.

The sites also use statistics, payment, delivery systems, third-party widgets and other services. They also need to be connected.

12. Testing, error detection

You need to check all the pages so that everything works without errors. Do not forget to check the contact information and the functionality of the application forms - go to the site yourself, fill out the application and make sure that it comes to your email. Sometimes they come to the spam folder, check this too. If applications from the site go into the void due to inaccuracy of the email address, then you will lose money spent on advertising.

13. Project delivery, launch

Basically, everything, the site works. If you have any questions - ask.

14. Payment

And since everything is OK, it's time to transfer the rest of the payment for the work. A pleasant moment!))

15. Transferring access and passwords from the site

When creating a site, several secure systems are used. To access them, logins and passwords are needed. You will need them to access the site, renew the domain and hosting, and also if for some reason you want to transfer the project to another developer for maintenance (this has never happened before). All this data must be stored in a safe place and not shown to anyone.

16. Training

My help is usually not required to upload photos, videos and news to the site - thanks to the content management system. And to teach clients how to use the system, I make short videos with a screen recording, where I show what is responsible for what and where to click. Everything is simple there, so there are no problems. The advantage of the videos is that the client can return to them in a week / month / year and refresh their knowledge.

17. Advertising, promotion - attracting visitors to the site

A site without visitors is money down the drain!) But that's a completely different story..

This is how big the article turned out to be. If you have any questions, send them to my mailbox: innovative-business@mail.ru

If you need a website, advertising setup, content for social networks or require training in Internet technologies - write to WhatsApp, I am always online: +7 (920) 154-26-56

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