In the early days of the web, site development was looked upon as a dark art and the guild of programming and development alchemysts kept its secrets close to their chests. Now we are all much more web savvy, but when presented with three of four competitive pitches all with differing costs it may be difficult to differentiate between them. All too often the selection falls back on the visual design (I like the blue one), and the client ends up with a site incorporating some inappropriate technologies that present barriers to achieveing future aspirations and a costly redevelopment exercise in a very short time.
Here’s a brief analysis of some of the available technologies and critical factors that may help in the evaluation and understanding of competing proposals. (more…)
