The Web Development Process
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Without doubt, taking a website from zero to a successful one is yet another adventure in the experience catalog of a web developer. The key for failure or success lies in the beginning of the project. The plan created to build a website, whether a redesign or from scratch, and the actions you take to implement it, are known as the web development process (from now on WDP).
In turn, an excellent WDP is the combination of common sense and accurate creativity. Developing for the web is not rocket science, however, visionary creativity will be always in high demand. Web development has technical aspects: either 0 or 1 (using a database or xml), and subjective like: information architecture, graphic design, usability, and a big ETC.!
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Visual Editors?
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Do you want an embedded WYSIWYG editor for your web applications?
NO!!! Just let me input —pure— HTML. Thank you very much.
Unfortunately, yourself is not the only client you are going to have…erm, hopefully. So what are your guidelines for dealing with this matter? Assuming your development process is almost bulletproof, the reason to include a Visual Editor like this one:
should be backed up by a need to solve a crucial problem. And what you want is probably a modified “light” version of an existing solution.
- Browser compatibility. It was going beautifully, until I used Opera. If it doesn’t work in all major browsers look for another solution, or implement it yourself.
- If you have a basic editor, turn the rich editor off by default.
- Clean markup output.
- Provides the usual feeling of standard rich editors (i.e. MS Word).
- If you go with it, please do make extensive testing.
Without having much experience, it is hard for me to imagine a reason why somebody would need (in all the extent of the word definition) a rich editor. Avoid at all costs should be the immediate response. If you succeed in doing this, a feeling of happiness, and tranquility will be your reward.
Good luck!
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