Plan a website
Before building a website, it is best practice to take time to analyze, plan, and design the website that you want to build, the web content system that you need to manage the website, the infrastructure required for the system, and the roles and users required to build the website and install infrastructure.
- 1. Defining the project
It is important to have an understanding of the objectives, deliverables, and scope of a web content system. Your project definition outlines the what, why, and who of the project and can be used throughout the life of web content system.
These roles are examples of the type of work performed by the people who create and manage a website. A single person can be responsible for more than one of the roles outlined in this section. The roles you implement in organization to support website are determined by the size and complexity of the system being deployed. Not all the following roles are required for every website, but all aspects of these roles must be considered during any system deployment.
3. Create an analysis document
An analysis document is used to record the information gathered from stakeholders that determines the design of the website, its content, and its features.
4. Design a prototype website using HTML
Before you create a design document for web content system, it can be useful to create a prototype of site using HTML. This prototype should be based on the outline defined in project plan and the data gathered in analysis document. The site structure, design, and HTML code you develop for prototype can be used as the basis for many of the items defined in design document.
After defining the project and creating an analysis document, you define the requirements of web content system in a design document. The design document outlines what types of content will be needed for site, how they will be structured, how content will be authored, and what the final website will look like.
6. Road map to building a web content system
To build a web content system you need to deploy hardware, configure servers, design an authoring system, configure a delivery environment and enable syndication. Get an overview of the steps required to build web content system. Keep in mind the analysis and design documents developed during the planning phase of a project as you review the road map.
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