Anyone who works with websites should have a general understanding of the virtues of doing it right in web development. This requires two things: Knowing what “doing it right” means. Knowing why “doing it right” matters. Here, we’ll try to … Read More
One of the most important skills online is knowing how to learn. No matter who you are, when you work online there’s always way too much you don’t know. This problem never goes away, even for web professionals: you know more … Read More
This post is part of the Making Plugins Work for You course.
Some questions don’t really have an answer until you ask the question a bit more precisely. If you’re just here for a numerical answer, here it is: “Between $100 and $10,000,000.” Why the large range? Because some questions—like “How old … Read More
On WPShout, a WordPress blog we run, I recently wrote about how long it takes a developer to do a number of discrete jobs in WordPress. The post was motivated by a great article at another site about how much … Read More
This post is part of the Planning for Site Support course.
This post continues an earlier post on site support, which we can summarize as follows: You’re going to need site support. You’re going to need a plan for site support. We’ve also covered one of the best options for securing … Read More
Happy New Year! I had some time over the holidays, so I put together a video about what makes websites succeed and fail. The video explains that every website needs three kinds of plans to succeed: A strategic plan: the … Read More
This post is part of the Care and Feeding of a Web Developer course.
In general, developers are a lot more flexible on price for projects they really want to work on, and a lot less flexible when they’ll have to grit their teeth for the money. Web developers are like anyone else: they … Read More
If you’re investing in a website, one of your primary concerns will naturally be to pay as little as possible. As we’ve argued before, looking only at cost is not the correct way to approach a website project. Rather, a … Read More
One of the marks of good web professionals is that they’re partners in strategy. I recently spoke with Matt from 3thought, a graphic design team we love, about working with them on a redesign project. In the course of the … Read More
Just like a car, a web project could cost almost anything depending on your needs and budget. Your developer needs to know both. “I want a car. How much will that cost?” Web developers confront this question almost every time … Read More
