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I’ve been thinking about the key processes involved in design a website; I can feel another series coming on. The first step, and the one were it usually falls apart, is to determine what the site’s meant to do and how.
Is growing a business always going to lead to disaster for your loyal customers?
After a few informal projects, Conceptric is taking on a more business like persona. It’s becoming my freelance trading name, and as such needs a little reorganisation.
I’m frequently surprised by the number of organisations that could benefit from Web technologies, some have moved beyond the billboard website stage to including Internet retailing. Bringing the Social Internet inside your organisation can tap resources you may not have realised you had.
In most organisations, information is collected into an impenetrable heap. Good intelligence is a prerequisite for sound decisions, and these become much more valuable as the economy turns down.
Economically speaking we’re going through a bad patch, but it will get better, and when it does what will the world be like?
I’ve practised traditional project management techniques in Heavy Engineering, studied their use in Software Engineering, and found problems throughout. Why am I so interested in Agile techniques?
Information technology projects frequently catch the headlines, but usually due to spectacular failures. The problem usually results from not asking whether the system is needed at all.
We all gratuitously refer to computer literacy, but what level of capability does this represent and how do you get it?
I’ve just spent some time customising a few icons on my desktop. After a while it occurred to me that I could have been doing something productive instead. But what’s productive and what’s not?
My partner, Clare, works for a medium sized company that has grown significantly over the last few years. A couple of days [...]
This is a short and simple article about the way a website is put together. The diagram below shows three components that are necessary to build a functioning website.
The domain name.
First you need an address at which your users can find your website. Your domain is your identity on the Web, so it’s a good [...]
The commitment has been made and development can begin, but what exactly are we developing? Guess what — more questions.
Who’s going to control the website?
Projects need a single point of contact to operate efficiently. Decision by committee, whilst the most democratic approach, rarely provides the reliable and rapid response needed during a development project. The [...]
Asking a few simple and relatively obvious questions at the beginning of a project can save a lot of wasted time and effort. In web development the first, and most important, question:
Do I need a website?
It seems a simple question doesn’t it, but it’s not as simple as it first appears. There are three [...]
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