Internship Workflow
- Audit of thee existing website
- Design
- Content
- Relevance: Is the content still relevant and up-to-date?
- Quality: Is the content well-written and free from errors?
- Engagement: Does the content engage users and encourage them to spend more time on the site?
- Broken links or page
- Navigation
- Site Structure: Is the site structured in a way that search engines can easily understand and index?
- User-Friendliness
- Gather all the information and insights obtained from the audit into a comprehensive report. This report should highlight the current state of the website, the issues discovered, and recommendations for improvement.
- Define Goals and Objectives
- Visual Design
- Needs overhaul
- Device Rendering support
- Legible font sizing
- Site usability
- Optimization
- Clear stale content
- Keyword consistency
- Site Performance
- etc
- Visual Design
- Plan Creation
- Based on your audit and research, create a plan for the refresh. This should include information architecture (how the site's pages will be organized and linked), a content strategy, a SEO strategy, and a rough idea of the new design.
- Design
- Start the design process with wireframes, which are basic sketches of each page's layout. Once approved, these can be turned into more detailed mockups, and then into a final design. The design should be responsive, ensuring it works well on all device sizes.
- Development
- Content
- Testing
- Once the website is built, it needs to be thoroughly tested. This should include functionality testing, usability testing, performance testing, and testing on a range of devices and browsers.
- Deployment
- After testing and final revisions, the website is ready to go live. This should be planned carefully to minimize downtime, and it's often done at a time of day when traffic is low.