Thursday, 24 April 2014

3 Important Factors That Help in Professional Web Development




We all know that quality web development is a valuable investment, but what are the proper advantages of hiring professional web development services? Is the value worth it? Will a website that looks good generate business?
Absolutely, and interestingly that is not just it. You need to ensure different aspects of behavior that are essential for professionalism in web development, and each is reliant on the other. Some of them are discussed here:



  •    Professionalism in Standards


Professionalism is defined by how you work. It all begins with the standards you define for your company. For example, medical practitioners have set certain professional standard: Such as all their decision making be done in the best interest of their patients. And sometimes, this involves telling the patient things that they don’t want to hear, even if the patient is paying them lots of money. The reason is that doctors are supposed to provide consultation, and not service.

Similarly, professional web development requires that all decisions are made in the best interest of the target market. However, many clients have this misunderstanding that they pay for your labor and not for your expertise. Hence, they will already conceptualize a product or solution and just want you to work around it without any issues. Unfortunately, most of the time their concept is only half-complete, missing out critical specifications in the user experience, like Login interface.

As developers try to get the project back on the track, they may have to face the wrath of customers. This is where professional development comes into place- your customers realizing that you will never build a plain website or app that they wanted, instead, you will build a website or app that your customers actually need, as that is your professional standard.



  • Professionalism in Quality


The quality of your product is the second most fundamental factor to professional web development. This is built on the last aspect of professional standards because if your standard is that you meet your customers’ requirements, then your product should be of the highest quality to meet that standard or need.

For example, many web developers would agree that if your business website is created on static content using .shtml files with flaming skulls in your logo and tables for layout, it is unprofessional. Similarly, it is unprofessional if your complex app is loaded with bugs, and only runs on Internet Explorer 6, and consistently compels users to navigate horizontally to locate the button they need to click all day.

Therefore, you cannot ensure expert web development if the goal of the project is to meet the customer’s wishes and not their needs, which guarantees creating a quality product.

  •  Professionalism in Process

The only method to creating a quality product is to implement a quality process. A good project management technique defines a quality process. For instance, do you prepare formal use cases? Are you using Agile or SCRUM? Waterfall method? The Unified Process? Are your developers performing unit tests? If your web development projects do not follow any pre-defined process in a project, you are not being unprofessional. Depending on the project, the level of complexity varies, but there is always a process of one kind or the other applied. Using everything together, making continuous revisions, or skipping essential but non-rewarding stages like requirements analysis or usability testing leads to low-quality testing.

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

2 Powerful Tools for Cross-platform Mobile App Developers


It is common for cross platform mobile app formatting to get troublesome. Each platform is unique in terms of its features, behavior and capabilities. However, multi-platform mobile development is the ‘talk’ of the mobile industry, and mobile app developers are continually focusing on devising solutions that help create the best cross-format apps; that is, without spending all your resources on creating for a few platforms at the same time.  
 
Below are mentioned 2 of the top development tools for cross platform mobile application development:

·         RhoMobile

Based on Ruby, this open source framework offers Rhodes. RhoMobile permits the developers to build native apps that cover a broad range of outstanding OS and smartphones. Some of major OS supported by RhoMobile for cross platform development are iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, RIM and Symbian. Using this framework, you only have to code once. That code can then be used to create apps for a number of major smartphones. Native applications are highly compatible with available hardware, so you can perform cross platform development with ease, accuracy and speed.

Moreover, RhoMobile provides two additional components to mobile application developers- RhoHub, which is a hosted development environment, and RhoSync, which can be used as a standalone server to keep all the application data updated on the users’ handheld devices.

·         Appcelerator

This Titanium Development Platform provided by Appcelerator helps in the development of native mobile, desktop and tablet apps through programming languages like PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Python and Ruby. Currently, it runs over a thousand native apps per month. The most useful aspect of Titanium is that it gives users, easy access to more than 300 APIs and location information. Also, Appcelerator provides customizable measures that mobile app developers can put to good use for creating different actions and events. The applications can be purely hardware-based and all app data can be saved either in the cloud or on the device.