Comments on: The 6 steps of creating a website http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/14/the-6-steps-of-creating-a-website/ ...when coding passion, gaming addiction, Internet surfing syndrome and the real life collide... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:05:48 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marco http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/14/the-6-steps-of-creating-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Marco Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:57 +0000 http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/the-6-steps-of-creating-a-website/#comment-149 haha, Slevi, I believe I finally got that bad bug and now it shouldn't swallow the line breaks anymore :)<br><br>I also dared to add line breaks and I hope I got all of them :)<br><br>back on topic:<br><br>I also try to avoid adding features on a regular basis. First of all I believe in the saying: Never change a running system. But I also prefer testing the features on my local copy of a site to make sure that there are less issues when releasing it.<br> haha, Slevi, I believe I finally got that bad bug and now it shouldn’t swallow the line breaks anymore :)

I also dared to add line breaks and I hope I got all of them :)

back on topic:

I also try to avoid adding features on a regular basis. First of all I believe in the saying: Never change a running system. But I also prefer testing the features on my local copy of a site to make sure that there are less issues when releasing it.

]]> By: Slevi http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/14/the-6-steps-of-creating-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Slevi Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:51:51 +0000 http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/the-6-steps-of-creating-a-website/#comment-148 For me the steps are quite similar, my idea phase is quite lengthy though but that's mainly because I no longer do web design as a job on the side but merely as a hobby. This gives me months and months of brainstorming on a single site, just thinking about which changes I want to apply to the current, which new features I might desire to implant, etcetera. A great thing which helps me with that is when I think the current is becoming "old" to start scrabbling interesting new features I come across on the net into a notebook, in case I come across interesting design print those out and tape them in the same little notebook. It gives me the opportunity to brainstorm for quite a period of time till I reach that moment on which I'd say now it's time to actually make something from this all. Creation and testing for me is then the next phase in most cases, usually I simply use PHP MySQL anyway and in case of a blog wordpress as platform. The creation and testing of course begins with the design, it's just much simpler to alter your design in the end to meet the possibilities of the coding part then do the initial coding first and try to hopelessly get your design right for it. This phase is something which in case of a personal project can take up to a couple of weeks~month for me, it tends to be no more than a couple of hours a day if it even makes that. Around 2/3rd of this is creating the actual design, making it work as a webpage isn't too hard since I keep in mind what is possible and what works well when creating the initial design. Final tweaking and optimization before release is something which can take a couple of days, especially to fix things so it works on older browsers, lower resolutions, etcetera. But usually I do set myself a limit on how much time to spend on this, after all you just can't make it compatible with everything. Last but definitely not least of course maintenance, a phase which depending on the site can be huge or minor. In case of a blog it tends to be quite small, a little adjustment after a couple of months and some updates every now and then but that's it. In case of other projects it used to be something a lot more frequent since bugs showing up was just so much more common, also the demand for new features popped up a lot more. Something which I tried to avoid though was implanting new features on a weekly or monthly basis, necessities were added more frequently but the rest was added to a to-do list and came in one of the next versions of the site, giving it more time to work on the feature. <em>Slevi's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slevi/~3/224084867/' rel="nofollow">Cardiology in children’s hospital internship - II</a></em> Edit: Lol, something is still eating up my breaks :P. For me the steps are quite similar, my idea phase is quite lengthy though but that’s mainly because I no longer do web design as a job on the side but merely as a hobby. This gives me months and months of brainstorming on a single site, just thinking about which changes I want to apply to the current, which new features I might desire to implant, etcetera.

A great thing which helps me with that is when I think the current is becoming “old” to start scrabbling interesting new features I come across on the net into a notebook, in case I come across interesting design print those out and tape them in the same little notebook.

It gives me the opportunity to brainstorm for quite a period of time till I reach that moment on which I’d say now it’s time to actually make something from this all.

Creation and testing for me is then the next phase in most cases, usually I simply use PHP MySQL anyway and in case of a blog wordpress as platform.

The creation and testing of course begins with the design, it’s just much simpler to alter your design in the end to meet the possibilities of the coding part then do the initial coding first and try to hopelessly get your design right for it.

This phase is something which in case of a personal project can take up to a couple of weeks~month for me, it tends to be no more than a couple of hours a day if it even makes that. Around 2/3rd of this is creating the actual design, making it work as a webpage isn’t too hard since I keep in mind what is possible and what works well when creating the initial design.

Final tweaking and optimization before release is something which can take a couple of days, especially to fix things so it works on older browsers, lower resolutions, etcetera. But usually I do set myself a limit on how much time to spend on this, after all you just can’t make it compatible with everything.

Last but definitely not least of course maintenance, a phase which depending on the site can be huge or minor. In case of a blog it tends to be quite small, a little adjustment after a couple of months and some updates every now and then but that’s it. In case of other projects it used to be something a lot more frequent since bugs showing up was just so much more common, also the demand for new features popped up a lot more.

Something which I tried to avoid though was implanting new features on a weekly or monthly basis, necessities were added more frequently but the rest was added to a to-do list and came in one of the next versions of the site, giving it more time to work on the feature.

Slevi’s last blog post..Cardiology in children’s hospital internship – II

Edit: Lol, something is still eating up my breaks :P .

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