Quality Control Issues for Design, Development and Maintenance of Web Sites

Abstract

Websites have become indispensable tools for posting the information of an organization for the global population. It plays an important role in spreading information throughout the world. There are millions of web sites available which have been created by the web site designer using special markup languages called HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language), XHTML, CSS, Javascripts, VB scripts or other advance level languages like XML, Java, ASP, JSP etc. The IT professionals who are expert in designing and developing of the web sites are involved in this business. Most of the agencies that are involved in the design and development of the web sites create the web sites on commercial basis and host to the server, which are accessed over Internet. The present paper emphasizes the various issues of quality control and regular maintenance of web sites while designing and developing the web sites for any organization/institutions/universities .The first part of the paper highlights the basics of quality control whereas the second part of the paper describes the various issues pertaining to design, development and maintenance of web sites, steps taken for designing a quality web sites, consideration of various aspects of quality control and regular updating of web sites, quality measure to be taken in tune with the W3 Consortium recommendations.

Keywords: Quality Control, World Wide Web (WWW), Web Sites, Quality Standards, Quality Assurance, Quality Test Plan, W3 Consortium.