Any work completed in the web development industry should have been driven by the relevant standards but, unfortunately, many clients do not even know that these standards exist. Instead, clients are looking for a developer that will allow their company to meet a certain objective – and do not care that standards will help them to better achieve this.

Unfortunately, designers tend to focus on the look of the website and don’t give much thought on whether what they are creating is going to be simple enough for a web development team to code. This can occasionally lead to coding that slows down websites. Use these tips to help you ensure that you are keeping speed and quality in the forefront of your mind:

As anyone working in the web development industry will be able to tell you, working with Flash is the bane of the internet user’s existence. Whilst Flash can make for highly attractive websites that users are instantly attracted to and want to engage in, they can wreak havoc with a site’s usability and search engine spider readability. So, what is a pseudo-Flash website and why is it so great for developers?

There can be no denying that many web developers will, on occasion, take design for granted. Some of these developers argue that this is because they cannot truly appreciate the important and beauty of design until they have been trained in the process. Others will say that this belief is completely false and that developers can easily teach themselves to accept design.

In this day and age, web development companies tend to be widely distributed – perhaps with an office in a few Australian capital cities or even overseas – and the client base can be even more so. Because of this, many companies have had to look for alternative ways for their developers to communicate with each other and with clients, as overseas (and even interstate) phone calls can soon add up. Here are 3 creative ways to achieve this: