Website Development
Digitalizing Your Operations
You can choose the easy route to kick-starting your online presence by assembling a webpage via any website builder service over there with readymade templates. However, those only adjust the outlook of your page, while the architecture is not custom-made. If you think that building a website providing a unique service is just a bunch of punctuation marks and occasional commands, it only works like that in Hollywood movies. When it comes to the real world, there are many steps that go into creating a website. If you want it to be functional and accessible, here is what we can do for you:
Requirement Gathering
Detailed specifications are crucial in Website Development. We need to establish the purpose and business goals of the upcoming website. You better be prepared to deliver a TED talk about your dreams, for we can’t wait to hear it! What type of website do you need – is it a trading platform with cutting edge analytics tools, or a simple landing page linking to your portfolio and contacts? What kind of content are you going to post and how frequently? Will you require dashboards and databases? Whatever your answers may be, we can make that happen.
Scope Analysis
Now that we have the specifications, it is time for research. This is where we narrow down your market niche and target audience, focusing on the issues and needs they have, as well as examine your competitors to make sure that our project is unique and thriving. At this stage we also compile a checklist of things to do based on the features that you would like to have on your website and finally set a deadline estimate.
UI/UX Design
We have a team of talented UI/UX Designers with years of experience to ensure compelling, visually striking and ergonomic UI/UX. With this step we create wireframes, layouts, navigation, prototypes – all while developing a color scheme, icons and interactive elements for your website. If you’re interested in details of this process, make sure to check our UI/UX Design service!
System Design
“Architecture is about the important stuff. Whatever that is”. DSTRCT Media knows exactly what it is and how to work with it. At this stage we create the high-level system design that will be crucial in all upcoming stages of the development process. We select all the structural components and their interfaces, configurating them into the substantial subsystem, creating the bedrock of the whole project. This step also helps with future maintenance, improving scalability of the website.
Development
The bulk of our code is written at this stage. Once the system design looks right to us, we start developing the front-end which contains everything your users will be interacting with; and the backend, where everything behind the scenes, such as computations, requests and data storage in suitable databases, takes place.
Test, Review and Launch
Quality assurance tests and reviews go hand in hand with website development. Here we run a series of tests to make sure our product is stable, optimized and bug-free, ready to be launched at your will. We celebrate the launch with a cake – it’s an old tradition in DSTRCT Media.
Post-launch Maintenance
After your website is up and running, you’ll have way too many orders for your goodies to bother checking whether the page is still there, let alone if there are any smaller weird things happening. That’s why we provide post-launch maintenance and support. Indefinitely. The bond we formed on this journey will last through your project’s entire life cycle.
Frequently Asked Questions
Before giving you the details, we should say that we by no means discourage you from getting a webpage or even a website at a builder service and see if it works. It does if you need a semi-private space to show some chosen ones your side project or to write a blog about some serious stuff outside mainstream social media with their wild algorithms. At the same time, if you expect the website to generate income, keeping a readymade one for a long time is not the best idea.
Why is it not good? Let’s start with the basics, website architecture is the logic behind the structure of the technical, functional and visual components of your website. If it is rational in general, and the search algorithm of Google likes it, the website receives a lot of traffic. Websites made on builder services are almost invisible for search engines because of bloated code behind a clean surface, making them hard to load and adjust to different browsers. Besides, the content of your site may require a complex domain structure to make the website more comfortable for users and to improve SEO performance. Website builders are notoriously bad at creating complex structures. While the next trouble does not concern architecture, things are even worse if you use a free website builder. In this case, you will have to display all the ads that the builder service owner wants you to. If any of these sorrows of the DIY world are deal breakers for you, feel free to hit that Contact button, and we’ll tell you what solution will work for you!
Your project is unique to us. You wouldn’t be very happy if we approached it in any other way. Timelines may vary depending on whether your desired product is ‘light’ or ’heavy’. The general timeline for development projects is so broad that it makes no sense to unpack the whole story here. However, we will get to it ASAP and estimate a reasonable deadline right after completing the scope analysis.
That was uncalled for. But yes, of course, we have! Here you can see the work that we’ve done. CASE STUDIES
Absolutely! We can work with your existing assets, design everything ourselves, or a combination of both. Our cross-functional team can write, illustrate, animate, film, edit, and breed elephants if that’s something you require. We really hope you don’t though.
