Elements and Performance Criteria
- Select and analyse the website structure and development tools
- Analyse the business specification, and select the appropriate software
- Identify the website’s technical needs, and select the appropriate software tools
- Identify the site’s structure and navigation flow, and demonstrate an understanding of functionality
- Review the design documentation, and integrate the design work with the site’s structure and navigation, according to web development standards
- Begin site construction
- Take action to ensure user input during website construction
- Validate the existing information and basic content, when incorporating data on the website
- Apply consistent design specifications to all aspects of the website
- Gather feedback from the user on web design, content, accessibility and structure, using the appropriate feedback mechanism
- Complete and validate the website construction and content
- Undertake an evaluation of the website, against the technical requirements and the design specification
- Test each function, and, process of the website
- Conduct navigation tests and hypertext markup language (HTML) compliance with website standards
- Stress test the website to meet the design criteria and user load
- Record testing results to ensure that the website meets user requirements
- Obtain the sign-off and approval of the user