Website development is for creating a new website or implementing changes to an existing website. Website development considers all activities from inception to review of results.

Website Development consists of various elements including website planning onto website review!

Eight important steps guide the development process of a website to its completion namely: website planning, content creation, website design, coding, testing of the website, choosing a host, to boost traffic to the site unto reviewing the site onto success.

The very same principles of project management are at play in developing a website!

The most important aspect of website development is to identify the business objectives as well as user needs that the website will need to address! The more important questions that stakeholders will need to look at include: Why are we doing this, what value will our website produce, who is the audience and what do they want.

Three more compelling reasons for developing a business website include: to earn revenue where the website attrack buyers, to influence people by means of information provided and / or to create cost saving with information provided on the site. Its important for the stakeholders to explicitly state the most important outcomes they hope to accomplish with the website. More importantly need stakeholders consider that the success of a website is a long game and will take lots of effort to accomplish !