Web Development Best Practices
Ensure Consistency and Quality across your entire Development Team
Do you or your website design or development team have the following frustrations? Or do you have an up-coming development project and would like to avoid these frustrations?
- Make costly mistakes on projects which afterwards appear common-sense
- Spend huge amounts of time and money training new team members
- Learn many lessons in web development the hard way
- Have difficulty with multi-person projects because each team member has their own way of doing things
- Get customer complaints after launching a website about security and/or usability issues which could easily have been avoided
What are Best Practices?
The easiest way to define Best Practices is as a collection of policies and guidelines based on large amounts of education and industry-specific experiences. Such knowledge could take many years for one person to accumulate, but with official and published practices, this knowledge is distilled into small and digestible components.
Best Practices are basically rules and policies. There are mostly hard rules (like requiring strong passwords in web applications) - these are the rules that you must follow and if you don't know about them, they'll bite you in the ass in a really bad way.
There are also soft rules (eg when opening a page with a form, the cursor should already be in the first field so you can start typing immediately) - these are the rules and policies that make a website nicer, easier to use, more friendly, etc.
Why you should have them
These Best Practices are put in place as development guidelines to ensure overall success of a website and ultimately the client’s business. They are not of technical or moral opinion, but constitute fact, are based on solid marketing history, and should be adopted as company policy.
- Your websites and web applications will be secure
- Your websites will adhere to usability standards
- Drastically reduce after-launch QA fixes
- Websites will be converting prospects to customers right from day 1
- No SEO company will ever tell you that your finished site will need to be redone to work for Search Engines
- Your sites and web applications will satisfy all legal requirements
- People with older computers will still be able to use your finished websites to a pre-defined degree and functionality
- If you have more than one person working on a site, their approaches will be consistent
- When hiring new team members, training costs and time will be significantly reduced
- Cut down drastically on customer complaints about errors that easily could have been avoided
In short, if your development team adopts these best practices, each programmer and designer can perform at the same level as a developer who's got 20 years of experience plus a relevant education including a few degrees.
Turn up the heat for your development team
Almost two decades of industry experience are distilled in this work. Topics include:
- Basics of design elements
- Marketing and targeting
- Conversion and tracking
- Security
- Legal requirements and obligations
- Email vs browser considerations
- Interface usability
- and much more
Included in the Web Development Best Practices are hundreds of rules of design and development, many of which have code samples or supportive and illustrative imagery to complement a point. They are programming language agnostic, and functional in nature (in other words, it doesn’t matter if your team develops in PHP or ASP, the rules consider the outcome and not the code used).
Below is an excerpt of one point:
Ensure consistency across your team
Every web developer and designer is limited and biased by their past experience and current knowledge. Don't let this limit your web projects. Every developer on a team CAN play by the same rules, and at the highest industry standards and requirements, to ensure completeness and quality in all web-based works.
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These Web Development Best Practices are backed by a full 60-day money-back guarantee. If for any reason your not 100% satisfied, I'll gladly refund your money. Just let me know what the short-coming was so I can improve the product for the future.
Free Bonus : PHP Coding Standards
Included as a free bonus when you purchase the Web Development Best Practices, are the PHP Coding Standards (a $29 value).
Good coding standards are important in any development project, but particularly when multiple developers are working on the same project. Having coding standards helps ensure that the code is of high quality, has fewer bugs, and is easily maintained.
Formats & Versions
The Best Practices documentation comes in 2 flavors:
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As a standard PDF document
For rapid implementation in small teams. If you’re happy with the guidelines, standards, policies, and checklists as-is, then this is your best option. You can download the PDF and distribute amongst your team within minutes.
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As an editable MS Word document.
This is perfect for larger teams that have custom requirements. You can download and edit the Best Practices prior to distribution to the team. Add your own policies and standards or modify some of the existing ones.
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Delivery
These Web Development Best Practices will be delivered to you electronically within 24 hours of receipt of payment. Since this is a very high-value item and I have no control over its dissemination and use once it has been downloaded, all orders will be manually verified.
Disclaimer: The contents of the best practices are rules and guidelines for developing quality websites. This is not an HTML course and does not teach HOW to design websites.
Sincerely,
PS: I'm in the process of upgrading the Best Practices, and may decide to increase the price at that time, however if you buy now, I will send you future updates for free.
