Web Projects Blog

Web Projects Resoures 2009 - Google Reader List

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:21:42 +0000

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…

Big list of web project considerations

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:27:01 +0000

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

Hello world!

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:12 +0000

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 !