Just wanna know other's views/styles/opinions on designing Web Apps...

Here is mine:

1.) Application Definition
=> Explains the mission/goals of the application

2.) Target Audience
=> Who are you building your Application for? (e.g General Public, Students, Parents, Programmers, etc...)

3.) General Requirements Gathering
=> Write down all the requirements of the Application (Layout, Graphics, Content, Features, etc...)

4.) Technical Requirements Gathering
=> All the classes, methods/functions to be used, Plug-ins, etc...

5.) Flowchart / Diagram
=> Flowchart of the whole Application (not really needed, just an option so I always have a map of where i'm headed )

6.) Template / Graphics / CSS Creation
=> This is where Photoshop CS, WYSIWYG editor and Notepad is needed

7.) Actual Coding
=> PHP Coding...

8.) Debugging
=> Fix known errors and bugs

9.) Browser Compatibility Testing
=> Test the Application using different browsers and different versions.

10.) Submit the Application
=> Web App is done. Do what has to be done (Search Engine submission, submit to clients, etc...)

Those are my 10 steps to creating a Web Application. What's yours?

I feel that is the part of every software life cycle...
we had that in our course of software engineering...

1. Analysis /Reanalysis
2.Design
3.Collecting resources
4.Coding
5.Testing
6.Deploying

i feel thats enough for any system...

I prefer a free approach to the work..

1)Target(The person who buy the project)
2)Time to finish the Project(My ,all the times, enemy.)
3)Coding
4)Developing of new ideas at 2:am
5)Teting and last updates
6)Release and product selling
7)Last updates and mods for the client

Averange time for a Project: 2 Month or less
Averange profit: T-shirt (arghh) or when I had work for a Company some €€ ;D, and they're better than a Stupid T-Shirt

'njoy

hi, just want to ask.
how people decide the pricing of webpage / web system? any useful guides
thanks.

you can use from opensource cms in below
phpnuke
joomla
mambo
and for furoms
phpbb
vboultan