May 24th, 2009
Every digital worker should have an indispensable collection of resources, tools, blogs and sites that they regularly use to improve their productively, skills and understand the current issues in their field. Everything listed in this and the next few posts are mine! Today’s post is going to cover the blogs and podcasts that I read daily. Some don’t relate to whats covered in my job description, but I find it helps to understand the problems your co-workers relate to.
Development
Design
Project Management
The Rest
Friends, colleagues etc…
Tags: blogs, development podcasts, resources
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May 5th, 2009
At work we have a wall devoted to ideas, a bit like the Google Wall idea. One question that came up was to define every consideration when building a website. So here goes….
- Content
- Design
- Security
- Amount of innovation
- Platform
- Hosting
- Interactivity/Client rIch functionality
- Development languages
- Development Environment
- Usability
- Project methodology - Agile?
- Documentation
- Cost: Fixed price/time and materials
- Third party integration
- Deployment plans
- Level of customization required
- Elicitation strategy (Requirements & Spec)
- Project Resources Required
- Additional software required
- Design pattern
- Email
- Published content Vs user generated content
- Web 2.0
- Timescales
- Phased Delivery’s
- Audience
- Accessibility
- Disaster Recovery strategy
- Beta Release
- Purpose/goal
- Asset Management
- Taxonomy - IPSV
- Standards - LGSL, LGNL
- Browser compatibility
- Analytic’s & KPI’s
- Mobile Version
- Advertising
- Digital agency selection
- Change logs & Scope creep
- Payment Gateway/eCommerce
- Aggregation
- Buying Vs Developing
- Stickability
- Dynamic Vs Static
- Workflows
- Search
- SEO strategy
- Multi-lingual
- Support
- Reliability
- Test Strategy
- Performance & stability
- Friendly URL’s
- Members/member handling
- Database requirements
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May 5th, 2009
I have been contemplating starting this blog for a while now and here it is!
I work in the south coast of England for a digital agency called Redweb. The agency mainly produces enterprise level web sites for public sector and commercial organizations throughout the UK. My role within the company is to design, implement and oversee the technical aspects of these projects.
Before Redweb I worked at content management software vendor call Immediacy for several years. During my time with immediacy I worked within the professional services department. We mainly specialized in consultancy, training and implementing web sites, so I get labeled as a bit of an Immediacy expert at Redweb.
The initial thought for this blog was to be solely on Immediacy. If anyone out there has ever implemented an Immediacy solution you’ve probably encountered the frustration of lack of documentation and not being able to find the information you want, but honestly it’s far to boring!
So the idea for the blog got gradually refined into the issues facing web developers delivering web projects. I’m hoping to cover topics such as communication, what software and resources exist for web developers, maybe some technical issues and more than likely some other random musings.
Finding information on coding issues is easy what I struggle to find are peoples thoughts on the issue they face within in this field.
So… I hope someone will find this interesting, enjoy !
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