The Website Lifecycle

Introduction

This is an overview of what you need to know about planning, acquiring and managing a
website. The lifecycle model is a way of understanding why a website is an ongoing
process with a number of phases, rather than a one-off project. In real life, the phases tend to
overlap and you can find yourself working on activities from different ones at the same time.

The phases

• Preparation Phase
  You seek inspiration, educate yourself and do some research.
• Analysis and Documentation Phase
  You take stock of your business requirements, then your website requirements.
• Resource Selection Phase
  You make significant decisions about what resources to commit to your website.
• Content Creation Phase
  You focus most of your attention on the words that will be on each page, and other content.
• Build Website Phase
  Your web company or internal team designs, codes and programs your website.
• Test and Launch Phase
  You test your website to ensure everything works properly and according to your specifications.
• Management Phase
  Your keep your website up to date, make it an integral part of your business and monitor its performance.

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