What does a development company do? And What are the procedure? Let us guide you briefly.
It is impossible to imagine businesses surviving nowadays without a website and/or a mobile app. From retail to hospitality, education to manufacturing, every domain is plush with businesses competing with each other by developing highly engaging websites and apps.
Given the maximum visibility and reach that websites and applications offer, having your own business website and a mobile app is a no-brainer today. If you consider developing or revamping your own website, quality is of top importance.
Now Questions Arises, Who Makes These Websites And Applications?
You would be amazed to know that a lot of business owners have tried their hand at developing and designing their own websites. The emergence of several DIY platforms has permitted individuals to explore this process firsthand. However, in most of the cases, the end result has been far from what was expected.
Most businesses outsource the web development process to agencies that specialize in providing these services. Web Development companies usually have a team of managers, coders, software engineers, web designers, and developers, and marketing professionals who work closely with their customers to bring website and mobile application ideas to fruition.
What Does A Web Development Company Actually Does?
The major scope of work for a web development company includes ideating, developing, maintaining, designing websites and applications. Let us break this down further:
Website development services
As you know the millions of business websites on the internet, websites come in different of styles and sizes. A website can be customized by a web development company to match the unique needs and preferences that a business may has.
Similarly, the websites developed during the last decade, these days websites are developed taking a mobile-first approach. This means creating your website for smaller (handheld) devices, smartphones and then adapting it for access on a laptop or Personal computer.
The approach a web development company takes to create your business website would depend on a range of factors that include the following:
- The type of business (B2B /B2C)
- The domain or industry that you operate within
- The audiencedemographics and geographies that you cater to
- Your budget for the development and maintenance of the website
- Your goals and objectives(both short and long term)
Mobile application development services
Entrepreneurs have realized the need to adopt a mobile friendly approach. Studies and Trends and point towards the fact that users spend the majority of their time on their smartphones.
Just like websites, applications are also developed primarily for mobile usage. Let us read a couple of factors that determine how the app development process will pan out:
- Platforms where you wish to upload your business app(iOS, Android, etc.)
- Industry and Type of business you belong to
- Target group demographics
- Purpose of the application
- Your budget for developing and maintaining the app
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Normally, a web development company will help you develop an app and/or website by helping in the following activities:
- Freezing the framework, architecture,Idea and navigation
- Choosing a language to code your site and app (HTML, PHP, JavaScript, .NET,Laravel, etc.)
- Coding and programming the back end
- Integrating media elements like images,videos and audio
- Publishing content and improving it according to best practices
- Working on designing the User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX)as front end
- Testing the website and app before it goes live (testing on staging server, beta testing)
- Identifying problems and fixing bugs
- Conducting speed and performance testing
- Implementing codes and going live
- Maintaining and updating this online real estate on a regular basis
The web development process depends on many steps, most of which are taken care of by your outsourcing development partner along the way. Few companies also offer to design and develop a site or app using an online Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress, Magento, Joomla or any other from the host of existing platforms.
In essence, a web development company works with its customers and design team to provide end-to-end website development and app development services.
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Steps
The steps that the web development company adapt after they receive a request to develop a website or a mobile app include the following:
- Setting up calls or meetings to understand the scope of the project and to identify the needs of the customer. Once the initial discussion completes, the web development company emails a quote.
- Discussing the scope of work, approach and finalizing budgetary aspects. The development process begins after a legal contract or agreement is signed.
- Project planning involves setting up a timeframe, outlining the project plan and starting the work on wireframes.
- The tech assessment phase involves agreement between both parties upon the platforms, technologies and techniques that will be used for the creation of the website.
- The web development company then prepares and shares mockups or prototypes to give the client an idea of how their end product would look like (it depends if you both parties agreed, on small budget projects this is omitted).
- AS it is approved, the next step is designing the layout of the website and application (UI and UX). This includes making graphics, signage, icons, buttons, effects, color schemes, transitions, etc.
- This is followed by the coding and programming of the different parts of the project (back end development, as mentioned above).
- While quality control is an ongoing aspect of web design and development, this step basically makes sure that thorough quality checks are done before going live.
- Once the website or app is ready for deployment, the web development company deploys it on the predefined platform.
- Client training consist of explaining the functioning of the website and application in detail. This is an important step in the process since the client’s team needs to know how the website works and what aspects they can handle at their own.
- Once the app and website are live, the web development agency is responsible for providing ongoing support according to the terms mentioned in the contract. This involves daily, monthly calls/meetings, backend support, troubleshooting, re-optimization, and data reporting.
Are You Looking For A Web Development Partner?
If you are interested to partner with a web development company to build your website or app, make sure you look at aspects like their past work (project portfolio), social media activities, experience, capabilities, process workflow, and pricing.
If they tick all the right boxes and offer value addition, 24×7 support (not all the clients need it), and quick turnaround, you have yourself a winner!
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Conclusion
- Meet client and establish a general specification for the project
- Quote based on initial meeting. The quote should be pretty simple and to the point.
- Create a functional specification that both the developers and client agree on for the project
- Design and development team collaborate on a wireframe or prototype of some kind
- Client sees and comments on prototype
- Do 4 and 5 until all are in agreement about prototype
- Design team starts layout the look and feel of the project
- Development team starts to develop the backend structures for the project
- Client views and approves the design (more back and forth here)
- Development team gets the design and finishes of the functional portions of the development.
- Front end developer gets given the design and the functional portion of code and makes it all one
- Client reviews the first draft – more back and forth feedback given until all is done
- When customer is happy and signed off, the project goes live.
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