Development Cycle is a systematic and orderly approach in analyzing web projects. While this approach comes in many flavors, it usually incorporates the following general steps ...

IDENTIFY
Identify scope and boundary of new or existing project.
Develop strategy and goals for project. ANALYZE
Analyze requirements that must be fulfilled.
Plan requirements that must be fulfilled. DESIGN
Design a prototype.
Design interface and backbone.IMPLEMENT
Implement the design
Beta test the design SUPPORT
Support implemented design
New problems need to be ANALYZED
Refine DESIGN
IMPLEMENT improvements to design
Repeat previous steps if necessary