Quality Control is a process that happens regularly throughout the project to ensure the team are getting the best advice from an expert.
Initial planning setting up FigJam with the things you know and the things you're going to do, like a Competitive Analysis
Each project will have its own plan of attack (or approach). In general terms, projects can be either content-driven or visual driven.
A content driven website is one where the text drives the user experience.
Content planning would be the first thing you do.
A visual driven website is one where images drive the user experience. Creative planning would be the first thing you do.
A Theme prototype is a draft version of a website used briefly to test layouts and styles - so client sees if his photos and theme are ok.
A functional prototype is a draft version of the website used briefly to test functionality only. It is used to reduce risk.
A content prototype is a draft version of the website used briefly to the amount, shape, size of the content.
For large content projects
Creative Planning is a group of tasks relating to aesthetic, layout, emotional and visual factors.
Content planning is deciding out what content to put on the website and how to approach the task.
It is also working out where and when the content will come.
Layout planning is working out how to arrange text and images on a page.
It normally comes after Content Planning and Creative Planning, Prototyping.
The Build Phase is where the website is built in earnest.
Developments should be efficient because everything has been worked out and the developer has already done all the tricky parts.
Polishing activities including adjusting or adding content, fixing things found in the pre-launch QA.
Wrapping up tasks are fixing things spotted in the QA, but also setting up plugins and getting the site ready for Ongoing Digital Support.
Since hosting tasks take a while to complete, they should not be started just before launch.
Tasks include pointing the domain at the host (Read the hosting section)
Making Websites involves lots of small jobs.
QA ensures that these jobs have not been forgotten.
There are two stages of QA. Pre-launch and post-launch
The nature of projects is that there is a lot of back and forth. From one form of planning to another, trying to balance the elements.
Too little or too much back and forth and the project is inefficient.