Website Design and Development with HTML5 and CSS3

4Design and Creation of a Website

An Internet site, or website, remains first and foremost an information medium or a showcase. It is a good means of identification and communication. As a result, it can be beneficial for web designers to study in detail how this kind of application is implemented and not to approach it like a conventional project, since it involves providing various users with different tastes and preferences, access to a mass of structured and coherent information. This condition requires particular interest to be placed in this medium, with regard to both content and presentation.

4.1. Process of creating a website

The process of creating a website is not only limited to the technical phase (development of web pages). It also needs to be planned using a structured and creative approach: the definition of a certain number of steps, ideas and solutions to problems.

The steps for creating a website can be summarized as follows:

• – development;
• – hosting;
• – referencing;
• – updating.

4.1.1. Development

The development phase essentially covers the following steps.

4.1.1.1. Preliminary study

A website generally needs to satisfy a need and not simply a desire, to the point that in this phase the designer is required to set the list of objectives, select the orientations and estimate the feasibility of the site.

The preliminary study leads to a global reflection about the website realized: it focuses first on the objectives of the site (company site, sources ...