III. SDLC Web Development Stages

1. Analysis – If you translate this stage into one of the factors, this stage answers the question of “what” and “why”. In regular SDLC, market researchers will know what the community needs and will present the information to developers. In this stage, approval of the project should also be implemented.

2. Initial Design – Once the concept has been approved, it is time for web designers and developers to work together create a design. This is where the first seeds of website will be created. Constant revision should be expected since developers are still brainstorming.

 

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3. Design Approval – Of course, we need to have the approval of the managers or even the company owner to move on. But this is also an initial design except that the design should be more or less the same for the developers to work on. Only additional features or “work around” will be done in the website.

4. Web Development – This time, developers will work on the actual function of the website. Although it is already an eye-candy for the owner and different users, it is essentially a shell with limited features. Constant development, review of function and constant revision are also expected in this stage.

5. Prototype – Hopefully, by this time web developers and designers will now come up with a fair representation of the website. Usually if a website will be used for public use, it will be placed in closed alpha or beta to control the number of users. This stage is aimed to gauge the interest of those chosen to test the website.

If everything is good, the website will be going out of closed beta and will now be on open beta stage to test if the website could handle such traffic or if the website could handle thousands of users at the same time. The hardware such as the server will also be tested at this stage.

6. Launching – Although a public beta is already an open invitation to everyone, it is still buggy and revisions has to be done. But when everything has been cleared out, it is now time to formally launch the website, telling the world about a great new website that has been developed for productive use. If the developing company or the funding source is popular enough, it could even be placed under serious scrutiny by different tech bloggers.

 

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7. Maintenance – Just like in a software, the website should have their own maintenance crew. However, they will not be actively looking for bugs like in the beta version, but the crew will essentially be on a passive mode and their functions could be limited to checking the website and answering to problems instead of looking for them.

SDLC for Web Development is more or less the same. The players might be a little bit different this time in web development but the factors and stages are all the same. Although revision and change is always a trait in a website since it can easily be changed, it is all geared for better web development within the definition of SDLC.

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