5 Stages of website development

 

Get the right results by following the right process

 

ZeDDD understands the web and understands why a business needs to use the web, whether its for marketing or facilitation of a product or service, the web can be a powerful tool that builds business, increases customer satisfaction and saves your staff time, making a website a valuable tool in driving business success. ZeDDD works through 5 stages to develop a web solution that is fitted to the requirements of your business.

 

ZeDDD has developed its products around web content management for businesses with its platform application ZeDDD CMS which provides a solid HTML foundation to add customised web applications. Today there are 1000's of software applications freely available on the web and most web developers simply use these applications to build customer websites, but ZeDDD is a software developer that has built its own software and can customise applications to suit specific business requirements.

 

ZeDDD also offers services such as web site development which requires understanding the customer requirements and working through 5 stages to deliver a web solution for that business.

 

 

 
1/Design

 

Web design is key to impressing a customer

 

The Design stage may require a fresh approach that incorporates the corporate image and branding, or it may be simple case of using an existing template to get the desired outcome.

 

 
2/ Building a Website

 

Web design and the Web content

 

The Build happens is in two stages, the web design and the web content. The web design is the process of setting up the page headers, banners, colours typeface and formatting using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which is handled by our trained staff so the customer doesn't have to worry about the complex coding and design requirements. The next stage is content and content requires a structure to be used in setting up the menus and page layout. Web pages have different areas that have more importance and some time needs to be spent on considering what customers needs will be when using the website.

 

 
3/ Training

 

Become a web guru in less than 20 minutes…

 

Once the structure has been developed then the next stage is loading the content, which will become the responsibility of the business customer, so they can update content when they need to. The ZeDDD CMS software is situated on the web menu and has a login to gain access to the tools to add content. At the easy end of the training, the web customer simply selects a page , and sets up a heading and pastes in the text, maybe loads a photo and presses 'Publish' and 'wa la' the page is now live on the web. After that there are additional things to learn like simple formatting and loading images into various parts of the site or adding video or Facebook Links ect… nothing too hard! But with great results can make anyone into a web guru in less than 20 minutes…

 

 
4/ Hosting

 

Hosting at Competitive pricing options

 

ZeDDD provides hosting in conjunction with its range of zApplications, The hosting is based on servers in the USA due to better bandwidth and access to global markets as well as providing more competitive pricing options. Since moving its server from Christchurch in 2011 ZeDDD has not seen any noticeable decline in site access speed or hosting quality.

 

 
5/ Support

 

Email, Skype and Phone

 

ZeDDD has a good history with working directly with its customers no matter where in the world they may be. With Email, Skype and Phone ZeDDD can provide good support fro any tricky problems that may arise. Most customers don't need much support once they understand the basics of managing their own site, but customers are looking at ways to make their website work better, and ZeDDD is always happy to discuss ways to add new features or implement 3rd party applications onto their website.