Project Planning
Web Projects that Succeed
When you plan for features instead of planning for change, you are planning to fail.
No one has ever come to us with a project they started with some other developer that failed in the Planning Stage. During planning, everyone is excited, and the developer can say "yes" to every request. However, decisions made in a pre-work Planning Stage are always based on limited information and unrevealed assumptions.
This is what causes project to fail in the Execution Stage. The clients disengage, and naively expect that all their hopes and dreams will magically come true without any intervention on their part. Only when the developer comes back with a disappointing delivery many weeks or months later does the client realize that the two were never speaking the same language. read more »
Tips for planning your Web Project
We hear from a lot of people who know that they need to get their communications, processes, and data online, but they don't know where to go from there. Here's some advice on how to plan for your project, and how to find a Web Developer who can meet your needs. read more »
Building a Better Blog
For anyone with a 'simple' 'blog project seems like there are two questions that always need to be answered:
1.) Which software to use?
2.) How to do this as inexpensively as possible?
As to question #1 (software), I fully admit a bias toward Drupal, but I will try to give a somewhat objective overview of your choices. read more »
On Hiring Drupal Developers
Every technology that becomes widely popular as quickly as Drupal has will certainly attract individuals looking for a quick buck, without concern for real skills and experience.
Drupal's incredible flexibility means that most problems can be solved in more than one way; but some of those ways are not "The Drupal Way" and can result in more time and expense down the road, when you want to change or expand your site. We are frequently contacted by organizations who had hired a previous developer who couldn't deliver what was needed, or who delivered a mess of code that had to be untangled before new work could begin. read more »
