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Website Development Pitfall 3: Ignoring standards and best practice

Angela Schuster - Wednesday, October 14, 2009

In accounting, you have Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The field has been around long enough for these principles to have developed and their existence means that when you see EBITA for one company you know it’s going to be based on the same workings as for another company.

The web has now been around long enough to have its own set of “generally accepted principles”. Pitfall 3 looks at the perils of ignoring such principles.   Read full post

Website Development Pitfall 2: Getting an 'agency' to do it

Angela Schuster - Tuesday, October 13, 2009

When putting this series together, there was never any doubt about what Pitfall 2 would cover... getting an 'agency' to develop your website.

Call them what you like; agency, digital media expert, website designer... unfortunately there are many companies out there eager to help but oblivious to the fact that they just don’t really 'get' online and that it's not as simple as mocking something up in Photoshop/Illustrator (or another design tool) and then banging out a website in Dreamweaver.   Read full post

Website Development Pitfall 1: Starting with the design

Angela Schuster - Monday, October 12, 2009

There are a number of pitfalls that should be avoided when developing a website and avoiding these pitfalls is not an easy task. This blog series focuses on five pitfalls (one a day) and how to avoid them.

Pitfall 1 is kicking off the process by working on how the site will look...  Read full post

Five pitfalls of website development - over 5 days

Angela Schuster - Friday, October 09, 2009

This week we've kicked off our our 5 Pitfalls of Website Development series - over 5 days.

Each day we'll release a new pitfall and give you 24 hours to digest it. Here's an overview of the week:  Read full post