Meet the web development team

Creating a website is a collaborative effort, with a whole team involved. Businesses who want a website will often pay a company to make and then maintain it for them, so there are many web design companies that have teams of people making sites for a huge range of clients! Hundreds of new websites are created every minute, and there’s a lot of work involved which is shared across a number of different people in the team.

Some of the different roles in a team are:

Designers: The designer is in charge of the website’s overall appearance and layout. They will work with the client to pick a colour scheme, fonts, and the look and feel of the site overall. They want to make sure that the website looks fantastic and is also easy for users to navigate.

Developers: The developers will take the designer’s ideas and turn them into a website. This might be by coding it, or by using one of the many web development platforms which allow you to create websites without writing a lot of code. The developers who handle making the site look right are called ‘front-end’ developers, while there will also be some ‘back-end’ developers who handle the functionality of the website, for example setting up the user logon system.

Content Creators: A website without any content would be very boring, and so content creators will provide videos, images, text (sometimes called ‘copy’) and any other media which is needed for the website.

Testers: There’s nothing worse than a website which doesn’t work, so throughout the whole process of development there will be testers making sure that the website works correctly, and also making sure that all the user data is secure.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Specialists: There are a lot of websites on the internet, so how do you make sure that yours is at the top of the search results? SEO specialists know all the tricks to making sure that a website appears as high up the search engine results as possible, which helps to bring more users to the website.