Roles in Professional Website Desig in 2013.

The design and build of a website is usually split into different areas. A professional web designer will be highly skilled in some or all of these important processes. A graphic designer may be skilled in some areas, a copywriter in others and a website developer in others.


Stages of building a website.

 Role(s) Responsible
Planning the website goals, audience and required features. Marketing
Agency
 Web
Designer
Planning site structure 'pages' & areas that need to be built.
Planning the way users interact with the site, through navigation menus, links or other ways.
     

Graphic design of the logo and branding.

 Graphic
Designer
 Web
Designer
Graphic design of website homepage layout and style.
     

Website HTML design creating a homepage layout with graphics and style sheets.

 Web
Developer
 Web
Designer
Website HTML design of content pages and email templates.
Website HTML linking and programming of navigation and other interaction
Website Flash design of animations or interactive regions.
     

Website development of admin functions such as a CMS.

 Web
Developer
  
Website development of database interactivity features such as shopping carts, blogs, forums and other customer features.

Website development of credit card systems and integration with payment companies.
     

Creation of content. Writing text that populates the pages.

Copywriter  

Creation of content. Photography.

 Photographer  

Sourcing of library images, licencing of images

   Web
Designer

Sourcing of library images, Photoshopping and retouching of images.

 Photographer Web
Designer

Creation of content. Production of video clips or specialist content.

 Filmmaker
or other specialist		  
     
Installing analytics code to evaluate the sites progress.
 Web
Developer		 SEO Expert
Creating site maps and verifying your site with the major search engines.
Setup of social media presence
SEO Expert Web
Designer
Monitoring and improving of search engine ranking



If you have established what you need you can approach established a professional web design company in Bristol such as Digital Visual.
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