My Process
When developing a site it’s good to have levels of separation between your development environment and a live production server. I normally have three levels when creating a site:
- Development
- This server is mine, I can do what I want on it and destroy what I please. Clients and users will have absolutely no visibility of it. There will be frequent changes of varying size and complexity.
- QA
- This is where clients start to come in. Using this server they can view major versions that I release from Development when they are ready. This should be a stable server but will have well controlled occasional changes.