The short answer is that they build and maintain Web sites.
But what exactly that looks like depends a lot on the type of work the developer does. The good news is that web developers are in high demand, and while they work very hard, they can expect a comfortable paycheck and a healthy work-life balance. It’s a profession that rewards people who solve real problems and enjoy creating.
However, depending on the task required, some of the above steps in the WEB-development process, and can be used, or be closely linked with each other.
Terms of Reference (TOR)
Its development for the WEB-specialists performs, usually the manager of the Internet project. Well, the work with the customer begins with the customer brief, where he sets out their wishes regarding the structure of the site and its visualization, clarifies errors and omissions, if any, in the past version of the WEB-site, giving their examples, as his competitors. Based on the brief, the manager creates TK, while taking into account available in the presence of design and software tools. This stage ends only after the approval of TK client. However, it should be noted that all stages of the project WEB-site are quite dependent on many different factors, such as the size of the Internet portal, its functionality, as well as tasks for which is intended to create a web-resource, and much, much more. But, nevertheless, there are a number of steps that are necessarily present in the planning of absolutely any future project.
Design pages WEB-site: basic and typical
Any work on the website begins with the creation of its design, usually using a graphics editor. WEB-designer creates, usually several of these options, but in strict accordance with the TK. In this case, developed separately design “Main” page of the site, and then – the design of other standard pages, such as news, articles, about us, catalog. In fact, the “design” is a graphic file, as a layered picture, which includes the smaller pictures in the form of layers in the overall picture.
In this case, the specialist necessarily takes into account all the constraints of the standard HTML, that is, do not develop a design that will subsequently be impossible to implement standard HTML-means. The only exception is the Flash-design.
Number of sketches themselves and the order of their presentation to the customer pre-agreed with the manager of the whole project, which performs control of scheduled time. Yet, also large WEB-firms in the process is involved and art-director, who controls the quality of execution of graphics. This stage just like the previous one, ends with the approval of the customer.
Pages and templates layout in HTML
The design, approved by the client, is then sent to a specialist to “cut” the graphic image into individual images, out of which an HTML page will be built later. In the course of this work is created software code, which is already possible to look through a browser (Internet browser). Well, as such, these standard pages will later be applied as HTML-templates.
Programming
After the above-mentioned activities, ready-made files in HTML format are transferred to the WEB-programmer. Software Development web site can be performed as “from scratch”, and on the basis of CMS, often called the “CMS-engine”.
In the case of a CMS, it should be noted that she herself, in a sense, ready-made website, which includes replaceable blocks. Well, the programmer himself, in this case, it would be more correct to call the “CMS-specialist”, which should replace the existing standard template, a new original designed on the basis of the initial WEB-design, taking into account individual customer wishes.
In the development of software web site specialist CMS also set the control terms of the work.
Testing, as the final stage of WEB-development site
The process itself may well contain a variety of types of checks, for example: the appearance of the pages of the site with enlarged fonts, with different sizes of the browser window, or because of the lack of Flash-player, and much more. Also used and user testing, the so-called – usability.
Detected appeared in the work of the site are sent to fix it until the performer does not eliminate them. In this case, the timing of the work is controlled by the same project manager. Although, at the stage of testing still involved in the work and the designer himself, so he performed copyright supervision.