5 Web Development Steps to Design the Perfect Website

Web development solutions have been the need of the hour for a while now. Thanks to the reach of the internet connecting the entire world, websites are being more mainstream than ever. The websites we see are of many categories, depending on the business niche, and on their purpose. The main reason for building a website is to serve as a portal for the audience. This portal may either provide information or simply serve as an interface to purchase or sell products.

Before we move on ahead, it is important to let you know how mobile websites are now taking over. There are three ways you can move in that direction, you either get it made the mobile-friendly way, the mobile-optimized way, or the responsive way. Out of the 3, a responsive build leads the way in both the service and the cost to build, but what’s best highly depends on your requirements.

If you are building a new website, chances are you have already looked at your competition. The greatest advantage of building a new website is, the competition can’t keep up with the latest tech for when you are entering the market. Great websites always keep on adding or subtracting things from the page, to keep the website fresh as ever. Planning ahead and deciding on what all changes you are to make in future advances will give you a great advantage against competitors.

These were some of the most important factors you must take care of while building your own website. The reason why websites are so popular is for the fact they solve a purpose. Only if, you find out what purpose your website will provide to fellow visitors, you should start working on it.

So now, when you have figured the above points, let’s get started on our web development steps to follow, for a perfect website.

1. Wireframe and how things will work

Keeping a clear vision for this is extremely necessary, for this is indeed the most important part of a website. A wireframe decides how user-friendly your website is going to be. Always remember that fellow humans would be using your website, and they don’t even care who you are. Even minor inconsistencies or forceful struggle on the visitor’s part will shoo them away forever.

Go ahead and check out the best of all those websites you visit, and check out their wireframes. Usability and simplicity is the key to great websites, all that matters are these.

If you decide on a great wireframe, we suggest you stick to it. Changing wireframes isn’t a good thing to do, and it should only be set as a last resort and not something you can do in minor cases. It will involve changing a lot of things when it comes to changing wireframes down the line.

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2. The color palette and interactive forms

These two are so important for what the visitor first eyes. When someone visits your website, an off-color anywhere on the page would instantly be a turn off to them. The color scheme is also very important to build and maintain your brand image down the line. The colors on our website decide way more than what we can describe with words, and that’s why they are so important. Cluttering colors can also be a turn off to some, while making the choice, make sure you take everyone into account.

The forms, on the other hand, are most relevant to marketing and being in touch. But that’s why you made a website right? To retain and keep loyal customers. No matter what, at some point in time you are going to need forms to collect information. Putting these forms later can be a real pain, weigh things out and include it in your wireframes already.

3. Content relevance and images.

Long short story, content, and images, are what the user sees and interacts with. It is another one of the factors which mean a lot on how your website will perform. Content has many other things related to it than just being as something to see and interact with. But for today, we will just keep our focus on how important content and images are for your website. Everything that is displayed on your website, must either be an image or written content.

Some people may argue that people who visit the website are not even interested in reading the content. True, most people won’t go through 1000s of words in almost any scenario. But that’s why it matters a lot to keep it short and extremely relevant. You can reduce a lot of gap between you and website visitor if you work this one right. Keep the images relevant and matching to your color palette for maximum throughput. Also, make sure you place content just where it’s needed, instead of putting it at every empty spot.

4. Maintain integrity at all costs

One of the reasons we said you should choose images that match the color palette of the website is for this. Every loose end you leave in this will strike you back much worse. Integrity is a very important trait that many websites lack, and hence, are so weak in user engagement. Make sure the alignment, design, font family, all go hand in hand. Even the slightest of the mistakes would come out as a contrast to the website.

Maintaining integrity may require changing some elements especially in the case of beginner web developers. This must be done even if it takes up more cost and time. The simple isn’t always better, but the design and website that’s falling apart are much worse. Certainly, it's tough to integrate all elements in a website, but that’s why its all the more necessary. Make sure you talk about it before initiating the web development process, as this is something that comes at last but should be on your top priority while planning.

5. A plan for updates and future endeavors

It happens with everyone, and it's ok to scale web apps as per requirements. Even if you know that there would only be 1000 users in the first 6 months. And you plan to pump revenue from them, then move on to development, its fine. But if you at the start aspire of having a million users and place your bets on making a website like that, you may succeed, but the odds are pretty bad. Plan your endeavors according to research and don’t just get carried away on the train of aspirations.

Also, planning updates is a very important aspect to your business, be it in any niche. If you plan to stick to the plain boring design(which will be 6 months after launch), you are going to be forgotten as soon as people are over the honeymoon period. To keep users engaged, always plan at least a year ahead from the date of launch. Keep on adding new features and more to keep the users engaged and hooked. If you get these points right, your website is going to be great, good luck for your future endeavors.