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Your development server and your production server may be one and the same, and you may have been developing the site ‘blind’ by using a dummy home page, or not attaching the domain name; however, you may be using an offline development server instead, with the intent of posting it on the production server for [...]

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Functionality testing refers to the testing of programmatic features and is most appropriate for sites of higher complexity that contain features such as database access, dynamic page generation, and Java applets, namely features that require actual programming (rather than HTML page building).
Unit Testing
Functionality testing should start at the source, namely by the programmers who write [...]

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The project manager must monitor the content development process closely. Programmers and graphic artists will be able to complete much of their work using dummy data. Sooner or later, however, the content must arrive. Missing or late content, especially with accountability on the client end, is a leading cause of deadline slippage. It’s important to [...]

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For a website, a prototype is a first attempt to express or demonstrate the functional design through one of the other design phases. Following are a few examples of prototypes:
* The navigational prototype is usually a layout of the navigational structure of the site, also called the site skeleton or framework. Without implementing actual features, [...]

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Once you know what you are building, and how you are going to build it, you can start designing what it will look like and how the user interacts with the various features on the website. As project manager, you will communicate to the graphic designers and user interface designers who the audience is-their attitudes, [...]

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