The timeline depends on the number of images and information you wish to have displayed and in what format.
A typical website will take anything from 2-8 weeks at a minimum from start to launch depending on quantity and size. This includes the discovery, design, development, and modification period.
Depending on the client bookings schedule, the designer needs to slot you into their busy timetable, so may not be able to start on your website immediately.
It completely depends on the designer and their current workload when they are available to get started on your project.
We will provide a list of dates we will have deliverables ready for review and the date by which we’ll need your feedback to stay on schedule. Add these to your calendar so you’re ready. If there will be any conflicts, let us know soonest so we can adjust our schedule accordingly.
The time estimate given above doesn’t include the time you spend selecting your designer, nor the potential delayed start due to their availability. You should be actively researching and hiring your designer several weeks before your desired launch date.
Your designer will begin with determining your needs and discussing with you a solution that meets your goals. This includes a sitemap to identify the overall content structure, and documentation describing the features and user experience on all key pages.
The next stage would be designing your responsive website, where a mock-up is created to see how all the pages will look across all devices. The completed designs are like pictures of your future website.
Finally, we move to design and development, where we build a website that matches the approved designs and functionality described in the discovery document. The completed website is then sent to you for review, beginning the modification period.
This depends largely on you, the client. It involves reviewing the website, making change requests, and finalizing content.
Dependant on the client's time constraints the modification period can take time. This typically includes TWO CHANGE requests for minor bugs or design inconsistencies. (Thereafter, our hourly rate will be charged out at R150.00 per hour.) We recommend setting aside at least two weeks for accurate editing and modification purposes.
Set aside time in your busy schedule to review and test your website. Set a deadline as to when you would like your website up and running. Prioritize the importance of editing and reviewing your website as you would any other work in your day. The quicker we as a team can work through changes, the sooner your responsive website goes live.
Know what content will be needed for your responsive website and have it ready
How many pages do you require and with what headings?
What content do you desire to be displayed on each page?
What layout would you prefer other than the standard layout?
The biggest culprit leading to delayed launches is incomplete content from the onset. Content creation is difficult and time-consuming. I am certain that you as the client would be loath to launch a half-finished website.
It is vital clients include in their email, their desired content strategy and copywriting material regarding their responsive website project’s scope before the development and design process taking place to save time.
Have you ever looked at your favorite website and wondered why it was laid out the way it is, the way the buttons acted when you clicked them, or any other part of the site and thought,“I wonder how complicated it is to design a website from scratch using coding languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?” Well, all of those visible site features are built through front-end development — and the people behind them have a name:Front End Developers.
I am happy to add that front-end developer are some of the most in-demand roles, and for good reason—we wouldn’t get to enjoy internet black holes without their acquired skills.
Your digital presence, showcased through an accessible and appealing website, has never been more essential in today’s climate.
A well-defined and executed brand strategy affects all aspects of a business and is directly connected to consumer needs, emotions, and competitive environments.
While web design is the way a website looks, front-end development is how that design gets implemented on the web.
A front-end web developer is a person who implements web designs through coding languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Back-end developers program what goes on behind the scenes (like databases). If you head to any site, you can see the work of a front-end developer everywhere—in the navigation, layouts of articles on the pages, and even the way that a site looks different from your phone (thanks to mobile-first or responsive design).
Front-end web developers use three primary coding languages to code the website and web app designs created by web designers:
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
The code they write -runs inside the user’s browser (as opposed to a back-end developer, whose code runs on the web server). Think of it a little like this: the back-end developer is like the engineer who designs and creates the systems that make a city work (electricity, water, sewer, zoning, etc.), while the front-end developer is the one who lays out the streets and makes sure everything is connected properly so people can live their lives (a simplified analogy, but you get the rough idea). A front-end web developer is also in charge of making sure that there are no errors or bugs on the front end, as well as making sure that the design appears as it’s supposed to across various platforms and browsers.
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the most basic building blocks of web coding. Without these two things, you can’t create a website design, and all you’ll end up with is unformatted plain text on the screen. You can’t even add images to a page without HTML! A web development career path comprises mastering coding with HTML and CSS. HTML and CSS knowledge alone builds basic websites. Further coding languages can be implemented.
JavaScript lets you add a ton more functionality to your websites, and you can create a lot of basic web applications using nothing more than HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (JS for short). On the most basic level, JS is used to create and control things like maps that update in real-time, interactive films, and online games. Sites like Pinterest use JavaScript heavily to make their user interface easy to use (the fact that the page doesn’t reload whenever you pin something is thanks to JavaScript!).
More people access the internet from their mobile device than from a desktop computer, so it’s no wonder that responsive and mobile design skills are super important to employers. Responsive design means that the site’s layout (and sometimes functionality and content) changes based on the screen size and device someone is using.
For example, when a website is visited from a desktop computer with a big monitor, a user would get multiple columns, big graphics, and interaction created specifically for mouse and keyboard users. On a mobile device, the same website would appear as a single column optimized for touch interaction, but using the same base files.
Bugs happen. Being familiar with testing and debugging processes is vital.
Unit testing is the process of testing individual blocks of source code (the instructions that tell a website how it should work), and unit testing frameworks provide a specific method and structure for doing so (there are different ones for each programming language).
Another common type of testing is UI testing (also called acceptance testing, browser testing, or functional testing), where you check to make sure that the website behaves as it should when a user is taking actions on the site. You can write tests that will look for things like particular HTML on a page after an action is taken (like making sure that if a user forgets to fill out a required form field, your form error box pops up).
Debugging is simply taking all the “bugs” (errors) those tests uncover (or your users uncover once your site is launched), putting on your detective hat to figure out why and how they’re happening, and fixing the problem.
From figuring out how to best implement a design to fixing bugs that crop up, to figuring out how to make your front-end code work with the backend code being implemented, development is all about creative problem-solving.
Let’s say you’ve created a perfectly-functioning website front end, and you hand it over to the back-end developers for them to integrate it with the content management system. All of a sudden, half your awesome features stop working. A good front-end developer will view this as a puzzle to be solved, rather than a disaster in the making. Of course, a skilled front-end developer will anticipate these problems and try to prevent them in the first place!
