At Seattle Web Development & Consulting, LLC the starting point for every web project begins with a free initial consultation. Here, we take the time to listen and establish a trusting partnership to identify your objectives.
	Clarifying the Vision: Insuring shopper goals, business goals, sustainable competitive advantages, critical business process, needed features and functions are defined. Depending on your online venture, the scope may vary dramatically.
	Planning and designing: Sadly, this phase is commonly omitted with applications. In this phase of the project, the vision is more fully defined, identifying, on a technical level, what is going to be built and how.
	Developing the application: In this phase, the pieces necessary to build the application are compiled and logic code written. The actual development of the site will consist of implementing the user interface and data services tiers.
	Testing and piloting: After incorporating user feedback into the site and additional application test performed, the site will be moved to a deployment server. Again, depending on the size and structure of your company, this phase can be as simple as moving files or rather complex.

	Planning for security: As part of every phase in the development of the application, security concerns must be addressed. Issues such as authentication and authorization must be considered. Authentication simply refers to discovering who a particular user is and testing their identity against a secure source. Authorization refers to the functions of the site, in which a user is allowed to take access.
	Planning the architecture: Before advancing too deeply in the development phase, architectural issues must be considered. Whenever possible, we design e-commerce applications following a classic n-tier design. The purpose of separating the application into three basic layers, presentation, business, and data services is to provide logical separation segmentation.

	Deploying the application: After the application’s code has been written and tested, appropriate security concerns implemented, and the physical architecture decided upon, it is time for application deployment. This involves moving the application from the development server to a production server that has been properly configured for the application.
	Administering the application: For your organization to be responsive to changing market dynamics, your web application must remain flexible and scalable. These considerations must be planned for. The application developed must be adaptable to accommodate needs not yet known. Additionally, functionality such as administrative controls must be built in to make your application an ongoing success.