Creating a book review website is relatively simple, but if you want to make it unique and somehow stand out among your competitors, it will already be much more difficult. It is best to create such complex sites through custom development, as this is the only way to implement a unique design adapted to the chosen target niche and audience. And this is the only way to develop unique features. In addition, sites created from scratch are much safer and more reliable than a site on WordPress or Wix.
The process of custom development is as follows:
- Signing a contract. You are looking for a development company with the right experience and negotiate with them the concept of your site, timing and cost of development, communication channels, KPIs and other conditions. Once all this is agreed upon, you draw up and sign a cooperation agreement.
- Application prototyping. Designers, business analysts, and/or the client create a framework for the future book review site, which schematically shows all the screens, user paths, and key features/capabilities of the site.
- Interface Design Creation. Designers create a site layout based on the finished wireframe, which visually shows what the user interface will look like on the end-user side. In addition, also at this stage sometimes create a prototype – an animated layout, where all the buttons, animations and transitions work, but the functions do not work.
- Direct coding. Frontend and backend developers begin implementing the site in software code, using programming languages, frameworks, compilers, APIs, etc.
- Product testing. Almost in parallel with writing code, QA specialists start testing the fresh code with the help of various tools to find and eliminate bugs and errors.
- Deployment and support. When the code is written and tested, the official launch of the site is carried out. If you or a select few critics write reviews, by the time the launch it should be a lot of reviews. Also, by the time the launch should be organized support service.