Monday, 26 September 2011

Planning & Preparation in Web Development

What Web Design and Development mean for you? As an user, it may sounds more on good design, good info and good usability, while as a developer, it may means more planning, more productive and attentive. Beauty is in the eye of beholder. To perform a good job of Web Design and Development, a good portion of focus should start even in initial stage, the preparation stage. A good planning and web project preparation will give a good boost of a good output.

Planning stage involve various efforts from various personnel. A good team work is needed to allow better understanding on output needs and to fulfill the basic requirement of pleasant viewing among the targeted audience. Due to the phrase of "beauty is in the eyes of beholder", a website establishment will not some how fulfilling 100% reach of the targeted audience. Still, planning and preparation are intended to deliver to the mass majority of the scope.

Project owner will eventually consist of someone who may and may not understand the role of the website intended to be built. Functionality is somehow defined within scope of discussion between developer and the pay master. Like it or not, discussion may heat up between do and don't from two perspective; someone who pay and someone who get paid. Of all, a give and take should always be the only channel when problem cropped up in this particular situation.

Meeting will be the only solution driver in many scenarios. Discussion and explanation are important in the meeting to allow various parties to contribute and to identify the direction of the website. All and all, design, objective, scope of presentation and as well information planning are some of the key areas of focus. The more details the discussion to look into, the finer the output will be, to match the needs of all stake holders.

Decomposition of resources are vital to allow connection in between information and usability, once developer is overflowed with information and baskets of creativity. I believe work will be much established in smaller chunk for better digestion and interpretability of the concept and structure. At the same time, work can be well distribute to improve the journey of visible output for further room of project exapansion.

Even decomposition may face challenging times. With uncontrol flow of continuous information feed from the client, developer may drowned with complexity of information organization. The project manager will be forced to be well versed with the project in order to effectively decompose the resources into usable scale. Without a properly documentation or personnel who has bigger picture in mind, the whole process of decomposition may pose threat to the project sucession.

Planning and early preparation may sound simple to many. But how many of us realize the arts of the process? Without a good fundamental elements, the structure is build to doom.

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