Managing Web Dev Projects - The “Market” Requirements
The beginning of every (web development) project consists of info/data gathering from the market/clients (aka “client’s specifications”). The more complete the data is, the less scope change requests we will encounter later on. So, what kind of info/data are we interested in? As there are a lot of [...]
Not all the clients are the same
Each project is somehow unique and I reckon it’s safe to affirm that each client (the person benefiting from the project’s outcome) is also unique even if is the same person that did another 10 projects with your team. This “rule” applies to almost all the projects in technical [...]
Multi Files Text Replace
A couple of days ago I had to replace on a website with static .htm pages the old Google Analytics tracking code with the new one. And the website was not your friendly, five to ten pages website! So I looked around and found this free tool: Auto Replace. The tool searches [...]
The 4 essentials practices
The modern way to design sites is using “web standards”, separating content from style by using Cascading Style Sheets to dictate the appearance of the pages, rather than using “old” nested table [...]
Bigger is Better
At least that is what all that email spam we are receiving is trying to tell us, right? As a web master, maintaining large websites can mean big headaches when it comes to broken links. Web pages get renamed, moved or deleted so it is important that the website’s web master or web [...]
The Challenge
Making your web pages look and behave the same no matter the browser or the operating system your visitor is using, can be a challenge even for the most skilled web developers. With over twenty web browsers on the market and four major Operating Systems (Windows, Linux distributions, Mac and Solaris) the number of [...]
Handling Errors
Everybody from time to time, surfing the web, will encounter the famous 404 error page saying that the web page or the document you were looking for was not found. The cause for the error could be a reorganization of the website (the file was removed, renamed or deleted); a user involuntarily mistyping the [...]