Martin Francis

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Martin Francis - Web designer in Bristol


Saturday 5 September 2009

How does a website happen? A short guide.

The basics of how it happens.
1. Talk to the client
2. Register a domain name and arrange hosting
3. Resource Preparation - images, text
4. Plan page layouts, navigation structure.
5. Decide on how much usability, standards and accessibility I need to build in.
6. Start coding in HTML and CSS, building SEO in to the content.
7 .FTP - Upload the code to the server
8. Test in different browsers
9. User testing
10. Editing and agree future maintenance.

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