Online news is a highly competitive market, so it’s best to create your news site with custom development. Because this is the only way to realize a unique project, not a template site whose design and functionality will not differ from thousands of other news sites. You can entrust such custom development to a marketing agency or a full-service development company.
Once you choose a technical partner, you can start developing your own news site. This process usually consists of the following steps:
- Contract. In the first stage, you and the developer company draw up terms of reference and conclude an agreement, where you describe all the details of cooperation, from payment to performance indicators. Be sure to document all of your wishes, including the deadline.
- Prototyping. This stage involves creating wireframes of each screen of your site. The user flow is discussed in detail.
- Interface design creation. Quality design includes: easy navigation, intuitive controls and compliance with trends.
- Site development. This is the stage where your concept is translated into code. This is done by frontend, backend and mobile developers. Their task is to write clean and clear code that ensures error-free operation of your news site.
- Testing. Now comes the QA experts, who check the site for errors and compliance with the terms of reference.
- Release and support. At the last stage of development, the site is added to the listings of news aggregators, social networks and business directories. User support is set up and feedback is gathered for further improvement of the site.