Website Development Process

In this article, we’ll take a look at how the general website development process may look like. In the world of the internet, the significance of having an online presence is profoundly perceived. Each business needs a website whether you are an online internet business or an offline store. The website design has grown more strategic, complex, and demanding, good usability has become the price of competitive entry.

In any case, designing a website isn’t a simple task. The ideal website isn’t just a visual show-stopper. So, while usability is important, it is no longer the key differentiator it once was, utility is equally important.

Future of Website Design

The future of great Web design is tied in with creating customer engagement and a manner that obviously impacts business results and measurable objectives. The interactive online environment offers a larger number of occasions to impact clients’ dynamic where you can save tremendous worth by ensuring that our websites are optimized.

The website should be accessible to anyone and responsive to use; the layout and flow deeply impact the overall view of the site. There are a few things to keep in mind before you start designing a website and the objectives you set out, in the beginning, are of utmost importance.

The layout design is the way illustrations, text, and buttons are organized on your page. The layout makes your site look great, yet a strong design additionally makes it simple to utilize in light of the fact that the data is shown which synch well, buttons are in places that individuals anticipate that them should be, pictures are put so they help individuals comprehend what you’re attempting to convey without hard-to-read text.

What enhancements would you make while designing a website to guarantee the site’s drawn out more and relevant traffic?

Things to keep in mind while designing your website

1.             Wireframe

2.             Layout

3.             Content

4.             Responsiveness

 

Wireframe

A website wireframe is a visual prototype of a web page that focuses on content, layout, and behavior. It usually doesn't include any styling, color, or graphics. It's like a blueprint to a house that shows the plan for plumbing and electricity without the interior design.

A website wireframe can also show the relationship between pages, allowing you to navigate between a series of mockups with clickable components. A wireframe is constructed using basic boxes, lines, and other shapes to create an outline of the functional parts of a web page without wasting time creating an intricate, polished design. It's often the first step in the website design and web development process.

The wireframe helps communicate design concepts to a team, clients, or management. Best available Wireframe Tools are: 

• Adobe XD
• InVision Studio
• Sketch
• Figma
• Canva

Layout

A website layout is the arrangement of all visual elements on the webpage and the resulting relationships between them. Through the intentional positioning of page elements, the layout can enhance the site’s message, as well as its usability.

Layout is a key component of website design. It determines the sequence in which page elements are registered amongst visitors, which elements draw the most attention, and the overall balance achieved in the design.

Put plainly, a good website layout can lead visitors’ focus in the right direction. It can help them gravitate towards what matters most first, and then continue to the following sections in order of significance.

HTML Layout Techniques

There are four different techniques to create multicolumn layouts. Each technique has its pros and cons:

• CSS framework
• CSS float property
• CSS flexbox
• CSS grid

Content

Web content refers to the textual, aural, or visual content published on a website. Content means any creative element, for example, text, applications, images, archived e-mail messages, data, e-services, audio and video files, and so on.

Web content is the key behind traffic generation to websites. Creating engaging content and organizing it into various categories for easy navigation is most important for a successful website. Also, it is important to optimize the web content for search engines so that it responds to the keywords used for searching. 

There are two basic kinds of web content:

Text: Text is simple. It is added on the webpage as text blocks or within images. The best written content is unique textual web content that is free from plagiarism. Web content added as text can also include good internal links that help readers gain access to more information.

Multimedia: Another kind of web content is multimedia. Simply put, multimedia refers to any content which is not text; some examples include:

• Animations: Animations can be added with the help of Flash, Ajax, GIF images as well as other animation tools.
• Images: Images are considered the most popular option to incorporate multimedia to websites. Clip art, photos, or even drawings can be created by means of a scanner or a graphics editor. It is recommended to optimize the images so that the users can download them quickly.
• Audio: Different types of audio files can be added as part of the web content so as to increase the desirability of the website.
• Video: It is the most popular multimedia contents; however, when adding video files, the publishers should make sure that they efficiently on various browsers.

Web content management (WCM) is essential to run a website successfully. To manage web content, publishers should organize content in line with the requirements of the audience.

This includes usage of common content, terminology, and positioning; consistent navigation; link management; and finally, metadata application. There are a wide range of WCM tools available for effectively handling web content

 

Responsiveness 

Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation.

The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of CSS media queries. As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities. One may also have to consider the settings on their devices; if they have a VPN for iOS on their iPad, for example, the website should not block the user’s access to the page. In other words, the website should have the technology to automatically respond to the user’s preferences. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.

Why FullStack Web Development?

If students know coding and love to do programming that’s good but these qualities are not enough to get the best Job. Because now companies are looking for logical minds with a wide range of skills. They don’t deal with the conservative candidates. So students need to prepare themselves accordingly and keep themselves updated with the latest technological advancement and the software or applications companies are working on.

Well! We are breathing in a revolutionized world where everything is digitized, and where the Internet is the need of the hour for everyone. Businesses are moving to an online platform to promote their brands and outreach the customer globally. This technology advancement has impacted the whole world and brings the latest amendments every other day in the software programs. That’s why more and more people want to learn Web Development and adept career as a Web Developer as most of the organizations are looking forward to Front-End developer, Back-End developer, PHP Developer, (.)Net developer, Cloud Architect, Devops Engineer and many more. 

The demand for Full-stack Developers is on the rise. And companies are in desperate need of talented professionals who can work with both Front-End and back-End due to which their demand is hiking. According to the research, there is a 20% growth in demand for Full-stack developer compared to the last couple of years.

However, Full-stack Developer holds various skills and knowledge of languages like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, and React which comes under front-end development. For back-end, they also possess knowledge regarding NodeJs, Express, phyton, Java, PHP, and multiple databases such as MongoDB, SQL, etc. The role of the full-stack developer is to look at every aspect of software development within an organization.

 

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React Router

As opposed to traditional multi-page applications, SPAs only maintain one HTML file, commonly index.html. Instead of serving a different HTML file for each path, SPAs depend on client-side routing. React Router is a popular client-side routing library.

Routing is a process in which a user is directed to different pages based on their action or request. ReactJS Router is mainly used for developing Single Page Web Applications (SPA).  React Router is used to define multiple routes in the application. When a user types a specific URL into the browser, and if this URL path matches any 'route' inside the router file, the user will be redirected to that particular route.

Why use React router?

React Router plays an important role to display multiple views in a single page application. Without React Router, it is not possible to display multiple views in React applications. Most of the social media websites like Facebook, Instagram uses React Router for rendering multiple views.

React Router uses component structure to call components, which display the appropriate information. React router also allows the user to utilize browser functionality like the back button, and the refresh page, all while maintaining the correct view of the application.

React Router Installation

React contains three different packages for routing. These are:

1.  react-router: It provides the core routing components and functions for the React Router applications.

2.    react-router-dom: It is used for web applications design.

3.    react-router-native: It is used for mobile applications.

Step 1: Install React Router

It is not possible to install react-router directly in your application. To use react routing, first, you need to install react-router-dom modules in your application. The below command is used to install react router dom.

  npm install react-router-dom

Step 2: Make Four components.

In our project, we will create four more components in the directory called Pages along with App.js, which is already present.

Pages/Home.js

import React from "react";

export default function Home() {

  return (

    <div>

      <h1>Home Page</h1>

    </div>

  );

} 

Pages/About.js

import React from "react";

export default function About() {

  return (

    <div>

      <h1>About Page</h1>

    </div>

  );

} 

Pages/Contact.js

import React from "react";

export default function Contact() {

  return (

    <div>

      <h1>Contact Page</h1>

    </div>

  );

} 

Pages/Navbar.js

import React from "react";

export default function Navbar() {

  return (

    <nav className="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">

      <div className="container-fluid">

        <ul className="nav navbar-nav">

          <li className="nav-item">

            <a href="/" className="nav-link" exact>

              Home

            </a>

          </li>

          <li className="nav-item">

            <a href="/about" className="nav-link" exact>

              About

            </a>

          </li>

          <li className="nav-item">

            <a href="/contact" className="nav-link" exact>

              Contact

            </a>

          </li>

        </ul>

      </div>

    </nav>

  );

}

Step 3: Setup App.js for Routing

App.js

import React from 'react';

import Navbar from "./Pages/Navbar";

import Home from "./Pages/Home";

import About from "./Pages/About";

import Contact from "./Pages/Contact";

function App() {

  return (

      <div className="App">

         <Navbar />

         <Home />

         <About />

         <Contact />

      </div>

  );

}

export default App; 

For Routing, open the app.js file and import all the four component files in it. Here, you need to import line: 

  import { BrowserRouter as Router, Swtich, Route } from "react-router-dom";

which helps us to implement the Routing. Now, our app.js file looks like below.

BrowserRouter as Router

First, you'll need to set up your app to work with React Router. Everything that gets rendered will need to go inside the <BrowserRouter> element, but we just rename BrowserRouter as Router only to reduce the long name of the BrowserRouter. so wrap your App in those first. It's the component that does all the logic of displaying various components that you provide it with.

import React from "react";

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Swtich, Route } from "react-router-dom";

import Navbar from "./Pages/Navbar";

import Home from "./Pages/Home";

import About from "./Pages/About";

import Contact from "./Pages/Contact";

function App() {

  return (

    <Router>

      <div className="App">

        <Navbar />

        <Home />

        <About />

        <Contact />

      </div>

    </Router>

  );

}

export default App;

Switch

Next, in your App component, add the Switch element (open and closing tags). These ensure that only one component is rendered at a time. It checks each route for a match sequentially and stops once the first match is found.

function App() {

  return (

    <Router>

      <div className="App">

        <Navbar />

        <switch>

          <Home />

          <About />

          <Contact />

        </switch>

      </div>

    </Router>

  );

}

You notice that we put <Navbar /> component outside the switch, because we want that navbar will be visible on each component that render.

Route

It's now time to add your <Route> tags. These are the links between the components and should be placed inside the <Switch> tags.

To tell the <Route> tags which component to load, simply add a path attribute and the name of the component you want to load with component attribute. The <Route> will return null in case the specified URL doesn’t match the defined path.

 

function App() {

    return (

      <Router>

        <div className="App">

          <Navbar />

          <switch>

            <Route path="/" exact component={Home} />

            <Route path="/about" exact component={About} />

            <Route path="/contact" exact component={Contact} />

          </switch>

        </div>

      </Router>

    );

  }  

When the route matches /, the application shows the Dashboard component. When the route is changed by clicking the “About” link to /about, the Dashboard component is removed and the About component is inserted in the DOM.

Notice the exact attribute. Without this, path="/" would also match /about, since / is contained in the route.  However, we want  ‘/’ to match only our render function, hence using ‘exact’ explicitly achieves this.

Step 4: Adding Navigation Link

Link

Sometimes, we want to need multiple links on a single page. When we click on any of that particular Link, it should load that page which is associated with that path without reloading the web page. To do this, we need to import <Link> component in the Navbar.js file. The Link component is used to trigger new routes. You import it from react-router-dom, and you can add the Link components to point at different routes, with the to attribute. It is the equivalent of anchor tags: <a> </a>.

So now we should update Navbar.js for providing Navigation link in react application by replacing <a> tag to <Link> Tag and 'href' to 'to' attribute.  

Pages/Navbar.js

import React from "react";

import { Link } from "react-router-dom";

export default function Navbar() {

  return (

    <nav className="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">

      <div className="container-fluid">

        <ul className="nav navbar-nav">

          <li className="nav-item">

            <Link to="/" className="nav-link" exact>

              Home

            </Link>

          </li>

          <li className="nav-item">

            <Link to="/about" className="nav-link" exact>

              About

            </Link>

          </li>

          <li className="nav-item">

            <Link to="/contact" className="nav-link" exact>

              Contact

            </Link>

          </li>

        </ul>

      </div>

    </nav>

  );

} 

404 Page Not Found

A common use case for when you’re building a web app is to have a “catch all” route that will be rendered if none of your other routes match. A common example of this would be a 404 page.

To create a client side "404 not found" fallback all you need to do is make use of a <Route /> component with a non-greedy matching path. Create your NotFound component, i.e. the page which will display 404 error message:

Pages/NotFound.js

import React from "react";

export default function NotFound() {

  return (

    <div>

      <h3>404 page not found</h3>

      <p>We are sorry but the page you are looking for does not exist.</p>

    </div>

  ); 

Let's add <NotFound /> component to routes configuration, using * as a value of the path parameter to get a non-greedy matching.

It is important to remember that the 404 route needs to be declared in the very bottom of your routes configuration, so the <Route /> is only mounted if any of the routes' path declared above are not matched:

App.js

import NotFound from "./Pages/NotFound";

function App() {

  return (

    <Router>

      <div className="App">

        <Navbar />

        <switch>

          {/* Other Page Routes */}

          <Route component={NotFound} />

        </switch>

      </div>

    </Router>

  );

}

export default App; 

See the example below, try to enter some non valid url to see 404 page: