How to take an engineered approach to making a website?

Question

I'm thinking of starting a website (Not static but PHP based) - something like a portal.

However, i want to do this right. Can anyone help me in delineating the various processes that my site can go through ?

Like :

• How the data flows between different pages (data flow diagram) ?
• Steps in selecting a design
• etc.. etc...

Basically i'm looking for some well defined practices in the software engineering industry which can be followed so that my website will be on the right track. I have studied Software engineering (Pressman) however i cannot understand how the techniques given can be applied for web projects.

Is there any book which i can refer to for a better understanding of engineering web projects ?

Thanks alot for any help in advance. Would really like some guidance on this.

Answer 1

MVC is one approach that might be worth looking into.