Graphic Design Means So Much More
I am in my late thirties, when I was in college, graphic design used to mean that you would design ads and other media for companies. Today, a graphic designer can work as a web developer and earn much more money than they did when I graduated from college almost twenty years ago. I knew that I wanted to help my daughter find her way through college majors as she was deciding what she wanted to study, and I knew she was artistic but did not know how she wanted to apply those skills. I told her that we should go and speak with a developer that would be able to show her what they do when they are working.
Outsourcing Web Development
In this recession hit period, due to stringent budgets and lack of professional expertise, these organizations are moving to countries like India for web development. Good IT infrastructure and high level of English speaking employees is another reason for these organizations to come to India for their web development. Moreover web development companies in India are changing their working hours so that difference in time zone does not prove to be a hindrance for both parties while communicating with each other.
There are number of advantages of web development in India:
Reduced Development Cost
Web application development at reduced cost is the key reason for organizations to offshore their development work to India. Organizations in Developed countries like U.S, U.K, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Sweden etc find it very expensive to develop web applications at their own workplace because of high wages. Suppose Development of web application in their own country cost them 100,000 dollars than in India it will cost them round about 40,000 dollars. Henceforth they appoint offshore website Development Company from India for their work.
Highly Skilled
Web Development and Cross Web Browser
Does your website look great in Firefox and Safari, but a dog’s breakfast in Internet Explorer?
If so then you need to read this, web development and cross browser compatibility is a very serious issue that should be tackled by any professional web development company or individual.
Web development companies and individual developers if professional should address this issue with their clients to ensure the clients brand and web design looks identical across the most popular browsers.
From Internet Explorer to Opera which are included in the top 5 most used internet browsers (based on statistics taken in October 2010), any professional web development company or individual developer need to keep vigilant with their web browser compatibility checking.
To stay on top of this pressing issue there are a number of free websites available that you can use which will take sample website screen shots of your website and how it appears on selected web browsers.
Easiest way to find these web browser checking sites is to Google the following phrase: “How does my website appear on other
How to Determine Who to Hire To Be Your Next Ideal Web Developer
Critical Benefits and Drawbacks You Need to Know About Different Web Developer Types
I get asked to do website estimates a lot and sometimes it’s downright heartbreaking to hear about the struggles and challenges entrepreneurs and business owners face when trying to find the right web developer.
Too many times I hear about people who feel they were ripped off by their previous webmaster and are very reluctant to hire someone new for fear of the same thing happening again.
Some of these people decided they better do all the work themselves, struggled terribly trying to literally learn a whole new profession. They end up calling me out of sheer frustration that nothing is working and things are worse off than before.
One time I was having a conversation with someone on a completely unrelated topic and he asked me what I did, when I responded he blurted out, “web developers.”
I cringed.
I’m sure this happens in every industry where there are people who are really great at what they do,
Is Your Web Developer a Cowboy?
What do you think of your web developer?
Over the last few years we have quietly, but at every opportunity, been asking this question to business owners, marketing directors and executives responsible for their company website whether for commissioning, developing or maintaining their online presence. We also asked if they were happy with the website that the developer had provided, or if they thought it was bringing tangible benefit to their business. The responses were sharply divided. It seems that the businesses’ experience of Web developers is like Marmite: you either love them or hate them.
Shockingly, over 80% of respondents reported a ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ experience of working with a website developer or designer. Many made comments that were very uncomplimentary toward their web developers. Some stated that they felt they had been, “Taken for a ride,” by those who had either baffled them with technology and jargon, or had – deliberately or otherwise – raised their expectations beyond what was feasible with the investment they were making. One had invested tens of thousands with a web development company to build an online presence for their business and now has a website that not
Beware of Freelance Web Developers and Designers
Plenty of startup companies are seeking their web presence through a simple website or an interactive web portal. To accomplish the web development task they try to find the resources on internet. They search for resources using keywords like freelance web developer, freelance web development or freelance web designers. Either they end up seeing some blog of freelancer or they reach to the freelance heaven websites like rentacoder, getacoder, getafreelancer, elance or odesk. Such sites have millions of cheap freelancers registered with them. You may put a project and you can get as many as 50-100 bids for your project in a day. This sounds fascinating initially but it’s just a beginning of process. The trouble starts now. Here are few difficulties you will face at initial stage.
1. You have overwhelming bids that makes the choice difficult for you.
2. Every one of them tells you that they are the best, but hardly few of them are actually telling the truth.
3. You may not find just one freelance web developer meets all your needs, Mr. A meets 50% matching requirements and Mr. B and Mr.
Why You Should Not Do Freelance Web Development or Design
This is a letter of suggestion for all freelance web developers on behalf of Web Development companies in India. Freelance web designing or web application development is good to earn an extra income for you but it has various adverse effects on the economy in India. The following effects can ruin India from various aspects.
1. Freelance Web Designers are independent so they are charging very cheap rates for web designing; this brings down the market rates of the same work. Web application Development companies cannot beat the rates offered by freelancers. Ultimately a new company could die prematurely or cannot survive longer. County loses a business unit and development of business stops.
2. Freelancers work on projects to earn extra income, but they are hardly interested to pay taxes on it, so they ask for payment through various alternate methods, such methods are cash payments. Freelancers do not pay taxes on cash income. The country like India loses the tax income, if it would have been web Development Company, they would have paid taxes on income.
3. An Individual web developer works for money and not
A Competent Web Development Application
Written in Ruby programming language, Ruby on Rails is one of the most frequently used web application development framework. Often termed as RoR or Rails, it is an open source web development framework which is basically an object oriented programming language encouraging simple development, complete and potent web applications encompassing rich interactivity and functionality. Since Ruby on Rails works effortlessly with an array of web servers, deploying web solutions by using it is an effortless job. This is why; Ruby on Rails is part of every competent web development services set.
Ruby on Rails encourages the rails developers to boom in building powerful and elegant applications in an efficient and effortless way. Ruby on Rails segregates into four packages, Active Record which best suited for database interactivity, Action Pack which is on rails from request to response, Active Support encompassing utility classes and regular library extensions, and Action Web Service, where the server side support for the SOAP and XML-RPC web service protocols.
Ruby on Rails web development facilitates the rails developers to successfully build powerful and elegant applications in a relatively efficient and effortless way. It is believed that
Understanding the Business of Web Development
Internet reaches out to a wide audience and is used to publish personal and professional information with some engaging user experience. Web development or setting up a website or enthralling web application and hosting it on the Internet has become simpler through the use of cutting edge technology. In fact the technology is meant to be used by the web developers as well as the end users for improving the overall web experience. This trend can be seen clearly as more of websites are being posted online. The Internet can be easily distinguished from other popular technologies such as television and radio as the web gives an ample space to the user for personalization with an unlimited scope for extending their creativity and reaching out to large number of public audiences.
The Internet can be seen as a collection of a wide variety with a frequent mix of personal and professional web spaces. The Internet was meant to be a platform for imparting knowledge to the masses at the time of its birth. But now it has come a long way to be a place where the users worldwide connect, interact, and communicate
Web Development Lifecycle
The web development lifecycle (WDL) is a more specific variation on the general framework for developing any application development project. Unlike general application development, all web design and development projects follow a similar structure, so the web development lifecycle / process can be drawn upon as a point of reference for both the web development team and the client to determine the status of any given project and the area of activity to address next.
The Web Development Lifecycle is made up of eight identifiable stages described as follows:
1. Initial Consultation
The Initial Consultation seeks to understand the high level business requirements, the scale of the web development, required delivery schedule, and the overall feasibility, web design and cost of the project.
2. Project Specification
The business requirements of the proposed website are iteratively established between the Client and the web design team, and documented in the form of a High Level Requirements Specification. Focus here is on the relevant business rules and outputs. Implementation of the system, how the requirements are actually delivered, is reserved for later. Once agreed,
Professional For Web Development?
The Australian economy is booming and the strong corporate infrastructure is supporting the surge in business processing and development strategies of the Australian companies. As the businesses develop, they find a pressing need of getting an access to a professional web service provider to get solutions for their online business development needs. Web development in Australia may be a relatively younger industry as compared to the major players like US, India, and China, but this does not rue in the potential of the upcoming IT industry from the country down under. Australia was never known for its IT industry in spite of the futuristic infrastructure. The scenario is fast changing as there has been a significant emergence of various web application development companies on the horizon over the past few years.
The plenty of these companies does get a business into confusion. The hunt for an ideal web service provider often ends up in contacting a firm that may not comply with your business standards and yet agree to sign the deal for your web development in Australia. The right tactics and patient search and research help in getting to know of a
What Does a Web Developer Do?
Web development is a craft that includes many different technologies. However, at the core of it all the responsibility of the web developer is to ensure that the client gets a website that does exactly what he wants it to do. There is a huge difference between being a web developer and a web designer, although their roles do have some overlap, the web designer will rarely be involved with any of the actual code that makes up the web site.
1. Plan The Design And Functionality Of The Website
It usually takes a while before the web developer actually starts to write the code that makes up the web site. When you get the contract for a web project there is a lot of planning and analysis that needs to take place. Usually the customer requires the website to function in a certain way. It is up to the project manager and his development team to estimate how long this will take.
During this stage the web designer will most likely participate to make sure that his design works with the customers requirements. Indeed, the requirements
What Makes a Good Web Development
The world of web development is still very much misunderstood. We’ve even heard people call it a “dark art”. So when you need help turning your ideas and designs into a high quality website or web application, how do you know who you can trust to get this done?
The purpose of this post is to provide some key points on what makes a good web development company, and will help you understand the kind of questions you should be asking development companies.
This is going to be a very opinionated post and we make no apologies for it. If you disagree with anything we are certainly open to discussing it further.
Now to get on with the post. Below are the key areas we are going to be looking at, and what you should be looking for in a web development company.
- Able to do both front-end and back-end development
- Don’t specialise in one back-end technology
- Should follow best practices
- Understanding of marketing strategies surrounding the projects
- Invests time in research and development
- Has a rigorous testing process, including automated tests
- Flexible to change
- Use source control
Able to do both front-end and back-end development
We don’t subscribe to idea of developers that do front-end development and developers that do back-end
Web Development Tips to Better Your Website
The most common mistake any company or individual can make when venturing out on a new website project is to assume that design is everything. I can assure you that your website’s design on its own is not what will make you successful.
A quality and professional web development service is what will affect the success of your site and its online objectives. High standards (above industry) are developed for a reason, and that is to ensure the product and service you receive is of paramount quality and to a professional level, so that your website will function as intended and provide the right return on investment.
Too many businesses that are relying on the success of their website to help drive their business will bypass the crucial step of dealing with a professional development company based on price.
In this article I will reveal 10 tips to choose the right development company and how it will better your project’s success.
10 Tips to Choose the Right Web Development Company
- Track Record – Choose a company that has an established track record. Generally a web company that has more than 15+ websites that
Hire Web Developer
Nowadays it is almost an outdated thought to run a business without online presence! Besides that people know that online presence increases or just double the Return on Investment for all the businesses! Also institutions or organization do also keep their presence online to establish or spread themselves to the world. And to make the effort of building a website there are lots of web development companies who offer the customer or the clients to hire web developer. In this way the website building process has become easy and affordable too!
But there are some aspects in website development. One of those factors is to hire web developer who is or are really helpful or worthy to be hired. This is the reason I am trying to put down just 10 important points that always come in consideration at the time of hiring web developers. Let’s have a look on the points:
- Before you decide to hire web developer, just assess your requirements. It is very important to know what kind of development you are looking for. Do you need a simple static website or e-commerce site. Depending on these you have to search for the
What SMEs Need to Know When Hiring a Web Developer or Designer
Your business is… well, whatever your business may be: human resources, plumbing, running your restaurant. Many SME owners are privileged to do what they love and work very hard to make their businesses successful. Whatever you do, you want your website to work for you, but you want to spend your time running your business, not working on the nuts and bolts of website design, so when you need web services, how do you ensure that you are doing the right thing for your business?
This straightforward checklist will allow you to manage your web service needs from start to finish and to make sure you get the best quality and value web development for your company.
Which web services do you need?
If you don’t yet have a website, the first step is to write down exactly why you want a website and what you want it to do for your business. Is it an online business card for reference? Do you want to sell products or services via your site? Is it to improve communication within or outside the organisation? All of these factors influence
Benefits of Hiring VB Dot Net Developers
VB.Net or Visual Basic.Net is an object-oriented computer programming language which is highly used by web programmers to develop web application over the .NET framework. Introduced by Microsoft, this programming language is a powerful tool for developing programs using .NET technology. Today, millions of programmers use VB.net for developing web and desktop based applications. By using this computer language, web programmers can easily develop applications for wireless, internet-enabled handheld devices such as mobile phones.
Till date, about four versions of Visual Basic.Net have been introduced by the Microsoft. And, understanding the technical aspects of these versions is not an easy task. In order to develop web-based applications over VB.Net platform, the web programmers should have thorough knowledge about ASP and C# computer languages.
If you want to develop web applications using VB.Net platform for your website, then it is necessary to hire VB.Net developers from reliable web application development companies. Some offshore web development companies in India have pool of experienced developers to deliver web-based solutions on the .NET framework. The dedicated web developers have the ability to meet the business requirements of their clients in least possible time.
Web Language You Should Use For Your Web Development
Web development is a task which you may find hard to do on your own if you are not skilled at it. Selecting a web application development language is a vital part of any website development. There are several ways, techniques and tools to expand your web development. There are also many different languages that different programmers are using for various different web development purposes.
Different applications and languages are used for different purposes. Although most of the languages used works best for the website owners there are few which are commonly and widely used. These different applications do different tasks. It is therefore hard to figure out for a web developer to choose from these several web languages that works best for them. Here is a brief explanation to each of the common languages used for the web development which would help you to choose from these different languages for your web development.
Today there are number of scripting languages such as Cold Fusion, Perl, JSP, ASP.NET, PHP etc which are being used commonly by most of the developers. These languages are mainly divided into two main streams –
Online Web Development
The Online Web Development is a term that explains about developing a web site for the intranet or internet. You must know that Web development has a vast course and it includes web content development, web design, client liaison, web server and web network security and server scripting etc.
When you design the web sites – web development refers to the non design part of the work like coding and writing markup. Online web development is the full range of designing a simple page of plain text to the most complex applications and social networking or electronic businesses.
If you look towards the history – online development was the fastest growing industries, once it has started to come up with new ideas. If you go back towards 1995 – in USA there were almost 1000 web development companies running on the new age ideas and technology. Then you can look towards 2005 world and the number of companies was multiplied to nearly 30000 in United States alone and it was growing steady to a much bigger target.
Today the cost of online development has come down to
PHP Web Development Beneficial For Online
In today’s competitive world of business over the internet, every online business website needs latest web technology solutions with best web application development. But there are intense competitors when it comes to developing an eye-catching website and making it function effectively or perform fast and easy multi-tasking. There are so many platforms for website designing like static HTML, flash websites and many more. PHP is one such platform that effectively works the best for custom cutting-edge web solutions. Another major feature for opting PHP is the cost advantage. Designing, customizing, developing and modifying PHP based websites is done well with affordable investment. Major web development companies offer professional web services on PHP including website development, developing web application, CMS development, custom PHP website development, static/dynamic and interactive MYSQL websites designing and much more with PHP web Development.
PHP is very well known and recognized programming language for custom website development with its fully functional scripting language. Significantly it can be quickly mixed up into HTML easily. PHP Development is quite easy as opposed to its competitors such as ASP.Net, Coffee and some other. PHP Website Development got uncomplicated format, techniques and features and
Aspects Of Web Development And Web Designing
Web Development process of a website is a series of steps which is generally completed via firms which develops websites professionally. This is both advised and followed, as web development and web designing needs a lot of technical knowledge as well as expertise for efficiency. But it doesn’t mean that you will be totally dependent on the web development firm for the whole process, you can plan ahead about the website. Get the rough designs in shape so that you are able to convey exactly what you want.
Here are a few tips to help you design your website before the actual web development.
Firstly, know what you want, a structure of website should be clear in your mind so that you can efficiently communicate the same to the web development team that is going to work on the project. This includes both design and functionality of the website. Web designing can be done with as much creativity and originality that you can possibly imagine in your mind. Original and positive ideas always click with the audience, copied ideas can be easily recognized and it will cause a negative publicity
