The website building process can often be described as"journey" We enter it without clear knowledge of what the results will be, but try to reduce the uncertainty through characterizations, conversations and preliminary discussions for building the site.
The question we are dealing with today centers around "How to build professional, but successful websites". As trivial as this question sounds, most entrepreneurs will find that they are faced with a difficult task that requires a great deal of involvement from the client during the construction process as well as after it.
How will we ensure the construction of a complex and successful website?
1. Goals and objectives
First we will define the goals of the project. If it is a project whose required results are financial, it must be defined that the project should be profitable at the end of the process. On the other hand, if our goal at the end of the process is to produce a POC (Proof of consent), this will be our target goal also from the development company in the project.
2. Choosing a website building provider
After we have defined the goals we would like to reach at the end of the process, we will start by locating the right supplier for the project. In order to find the ideal software development provider for you, several parameters must be examined in accordance with your project.
Budget versus experience
We often see that companies without much experience require a lower budget in order to win the project
. This aspect involves the risk that the expected solution in the project will not be provided on time or will not be provided at all because the executing company has not carried out such projects in the past. In this aspect, we would choose a company in the middle of the scale that has carried out large projects but is not priced too expensive compared to the competitors.
Technology versus development costs
The next parameter we will review when choosing a supplier is the scale of current technology versus development costs. It can be noted that when building a POC product we would like to use practical technologies in consideration of development costs and flexibility in terms of future expansion. When developing a product whose goal is to be active at the end of the process, we choose more recent technologies such as Node.JS and Angular.JS.
The level of design and graphics in the project
Usually in this parameter, we will examine the portfolio of the company we are interested in choosing as a supplier in the project. Diversification between jobs usually shows higher design abilities, where they pay attention to the small details and adapt each design according to the client's definitions. In other companies you can find templates that repeat themselves between the websites as a design method.
After we have chosen a supplier for the project, we will move on to the execution part and the client's side, in particular during the process Building a website complex.
3. Characterization of the project
When building the complex site, the client will be required to transfer Detailed characterization for building a website. Site characterization consists of various parameters such as UI UX sketch, site tree and functional characterization of the modules. You can read more about the characteristics of building a website in our blog and in the website building guide.
After we wrote a detailed characterization for the project, we were required to forward it to the website construction company that we chose for the project in order to receive a price quote. The more detailed the characterization we provided, the more accurate the supplier's offer can be and the price or price range will fall within the customer's budget. Also, when transferring detailed characterization, the supplier can price elements separately and reduce costs by forgoing less important elements in the initial stages.
At the end of the adaptations of the characterization to the customer's requirements, the supplier consolidates the project in a work contract and transfers it to be executed by the technical team.
The process of building a website is complex
Diagram of the process of building complex websites
The process you will go through Building a complex website It will start with the graph stages, which will require more hours on the design of the various screens in the project and also more reference to the UI UX user interfaces. That is why it is important to work strictly with the design studio in the project in order to achieve the best results.
After finishing the design phase of the project, you will be required to work with the technical team in the project who will build and program the design that was delivered by the studio. In this process you will be required to work strictly with the programming team and approve the different functionality in the project.
Quality checks for complex websites
In the last step you will be required to be QA testers – Yes indeed. The client helps the supplier to check the project in all aspects by going through the site carefully. The cooperation between the client and the website construction company is clearly expressed in the quality testing phase, therefore the steps in the supplier selection process are important for creating continuous communication between the technical team and the client.
take off
If all these steps have been carried out successfully, your complex project will take off and fly forward in the business aspects. As you can understand, choosing the right supplier in the project is an element that weighs every 50% of the work, and then the time and attention you will give to the details with the supplier is the remaining 50%.
Prepare for any complex project by booking convenient hours and times to promote the project with the chosen supplier. Please note that for each development hour you will be required to devote 5% of your time to directing the supplier's team in the project. We also prepared for changes in the characterization of the project as it progressed – You should prepare yourself budgetaryly for the possibility of adding or over-complexing functions in the project that will require an additional budget.