A website, in a way, is a software, which is developed for users on the World Wide Web. Therefore, for the website to come to its final stage, there are various stages through which the website has to go through. The website development process can be compared to software development. There are different website development process models, which can be used for website development. The common models include:

System Development Life Cycle
Prototyping Model
Rapid Application Development Model
UML Based Development Model

However, in most of the models the website development process goes through the similar phases. In some models two phases may be clubbed together to make one process or a process may be divided between two processes. Having said that let’s see the phases in web development.

Steps in Website Development Process

Every company follows standard methodologies, modeling tools, framework and languages for the website development process. The website development process plan does not differ a lot from software development process. Read the rest of this entry »