It is difficult, sometimes, to convince a client that their website is actually performing quite well. Clients expectations, sometimes, far exceed their websites ability to perform. Google Analytics offers an industry leading statistics engine for website owners and developers to track and trend website performance.
I read about “off line” or “disconnected” web applications some time ago. We are now starting to see these off line applications come into production use. Google has recently added the ability to use their popular “Google Docs” applications off line. The Google Docs applications include a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation application. Up until [...]
Several months ago we found a web service called Picnik. As calgary web developers who deliver “content management systems” to our clients, it was important to teach the client how to manipulate thier content images prior to placing them on their websites. Before Picnik came along, the only option was to try to teach the [...]
After developing websites and web-based applications for the greater part of the past decade, I have distilled the process down to four potential hurdles. The hurdles, or milestones, of web development are often the points where a project will stall. After all, if you can’t get over a hurdle, you can’t make it to the [...]
Preparation is key to receiving useful proposals from web developers. Not only will a bit of preparation help you get more detailed propsals, but it is more likely that you will be able to compare the pricing – apples to apples. A great number of prospective website design clients do very little preparation prior to [...]
