Production

uses the latest software tools to keep development time short and to ensure that, when someone visits your site, they see what you wanted them to see, irrespective of which browser they are using.

The process starts the same, for both static and dynamic sites, with a list of the pages that will be needed.

A template must be produced that encapsulates the visual aspects of the site and defines things like colours, text fonts and general page layout. If there are several pages, the template will probably include the navigation (the means of moving from one page to another). The template is what gives your site its 'look and feel'.

Static pages can now be easily produced by adding the text, graphics, photographs etc. to the template.

A dynamic website will require the creation of a database and tables. The tables will be filled with the relevant information. Pages will be produced, using the template, but now each page is effectively a little program that extracts data from the database and puts it on the page. The program must also allow the data to be edited, if that is a requirement.