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Can Anyone Develop a Web Site?
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Everbody's doing it |
In today’s web age, it sometimes seems as if everyone
is a web designer, from the company that recently web-enabled its legacy
software to your next door neighbor’s hip 12 year old kid. Sure, the web has
been called "the great equalizer" (or, "on the web, nobody
knows that you’re a dog") in that it has to some extent leveled the
playing field by allowing companies and individuals an opportunity to compete,
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But the point is this – simply playing the new game is not enough
to make you a pro at it.
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A Web
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Yes, many people can slap together a web page, or even a complete web site. But, that’s a far cry from the full-blown development of a web application that is robust, integrated, and interactive, and still executes at a high level of performance responsive to your (or your clients’) needs and requirements. Plus, does it insure the integrity of your data, the security of your data, is it easily modified (extensible) and can it accommodate the addition of more and more users (scalable)? |
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Unabashed plug
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Web application development involves many of the same technologies/ approaches associated with high quality application development, technologies that my colleagues and I have been applying, implementing, and perfecting for years. |
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What do we know?
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Is the web a different operational environment? Of course it is, but -- just as we plunged into development for the PC platform in the early years, graphical user interface design, client/server and later multi-tier development -- we have adjusted our sights and "re-calibrated" for the web. And we continue to apply the things we excel at – sound database design and development; multithreaded application design; component development (COM, COM+) and usage; logical, tight, efficient programming code; graphical user interface design; transaction-based processing; multi-tier architectures. |
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What else do we know?
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What "new" things do we know (and – given the speed of Internet time – we use the term "new" advisedly): HTML (no big deal), dynamic HTML, style sheets, Javascript, VBScript, Active Server Pages, XML, SSL, as well as multithreaded application design, component development, graphical user interface design, transaction-based processing, multi-tier architectures...well, you get the idea. |
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| Our "edge" | We sincerely believe that our technical knowledge coupled with our extensive applied business experience gives us that important edge in developing web-based applications. |
