What Makes a Good Quality Web Development Company?
The world of web development is still very much misunderstood. We've still 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 reason of this post is to provide some input points on what makes a good web development company in India, and will help you understand the kind of questions you should be asking development companies.
This is going to be a very dogmatic post and we make no apologies for it. If you disagree with anything we are certainly open to discussing it more.
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.
Capable to do both front-end and back-end development
‚¬ Don't specialize in one back-end technology
‚¬ Should follow best practices
‚¬ Understanding of marketing strategies surrounding the projects
‚¬ Invests time in research and development
‚¬ Has a thorough testing process, including automated tests
‚¬ Flexible to change
‚¬ Use source control
Capable to do both front-end and back-end development
We don't donate to to idea of developers that do front-end development and developers that do back-end development. That's the equal of having a plumber who only fits pipes and leaves the fitting of the baths, showers, sinks and toilets to someone else.
We agree there is a partition between web developers and web designers, there's a completely different thought process going on there, but the separation between front-end and back-end is just wrong. To be a good web developer you need to understand the full development cycle and to be able to get involved in the project from start to finish. There is also much to be learnt from the working with the varying technologies, but we'll come on to that.
Don't concentrate in one back-end technology
There are a number of good back-end technologies that are appropriate for web development counting Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net and PHP (and others). They all have their strength and weaknesses and not one is perfect. A good web development company should be flexible in which technologies they use, so that they use the most fitting one for their clients' needs.
The key reason we have spent time learning a number of technologies is too able to pick and choose the bits we like. Over the years the developers involved in The League have been able to take the good parts of each technology and formulate a number of best practices and use them across all platforms.
The reason of this post is to provide some input points on what makes a good web development company in India, and will help you understand the kind of questions you should be asking development companies.
This is going to be a very dogmatic post and we make no apologies for it. If you disagree with anything we are certainly open to discussing it more.
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.
Capable to do both front-end and back-end development
‚¬ Don't specialize in one back-end technology
‚¬ Should follow best practices
‚¬ Understanding of marketing strategies surrounding the projects
‚¬ Invests time in research and development
‚¬ Has a thorough testing process, including automated tests
‚¬ Flexible to change
‚¬ Use source control
Capable to do both front-end and back-end development
We don't donate to to idea of developers that do front-end development and developers that do back-end development. That's the equal of having a plumber who only fits pipes and leaves the fitting of the baths, showers, sinks and toilets to someone else.
We agree there is a partition between web developers and web designers, there's a completely different thought process going on there, but the separation between front-end and back-end is just wrong. To be a good web developer you need to understand the full development cycle and to be able to get involved in the project from start to finish. There is also much to be learnt from the working with the varying technologies, but we'll come on to that.
Don't concentrate in one back-end technology
There are a number of good back-end technologies that are appropriate for web development counting Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net and PHP (and others). They all have their strength and weaknesses and not one is perfect. A good web development company should be flexible in which technologies they use, so that they use the most fitting one for their clients' needs.
The key reason we have spent time learning a number of technologies is too able to pick and choose the bits we like. Over the years the developers involved in The League have been able to take the good parts of each technology and formulate a number of best practices and use them across all platforms.
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