formal website development strategies

Hi people, just recently i've been searching the web for a suitable development methodology for my website project but i cant find any one methodology with standard procedures or stages. Has any one taken up a project involving building a website for an organisation? if so or if not can somebody tell me about the standard development strategies they've researched before or at least tell me some books on this very subject. please assist.

Welcome to the forums.

You want to know how i approach web design from beginning to end for a client?

I have a whole stack of documentation that you may be interested in from my time in Government. But basically, all methodoligies are fairly similar. You do your business analyst work (as in researching requirements and outlining the scope of the work), you do your development (in a specific development environment - away from production), you do your functional, unit and assistive technology testing, then you do user acceptance testing (all of which are done in a specific staging environment - a seperate network from the target production environment). You may also have coding/design standards that you need to keep to, but these standards are something set by either you or the organisation you are working for.

Once user acceptance testing is complete and the user is happy, you can release to production.

For complete IT Service management info (including change and release management methodologies) check out ITIL, however this covers a lot more than just the software development lifecycle.