Veteran pass through-practical advice to do a website

Doing a website now seems to be a job for every business or team-whether your industry is connected to the Internet or not. On average, I get one or two of friends on the phone every week. Q: What are we going to do with a website, what technology, PHP, Java, or. NET? Where do we get developers? The website we are developing now always has bugs, what should we do? As a former technician and current Internet practitioner, let me say my own experience.

Many years of web work tell me a truth: Although the site seems simple, but must ask the right person to do. Domestic developers generally lack of experience, a person who has been in development for 2 years, may think that they have been very bull, want a not low price, and ultimately give you a very bad result. Conversely, if you find the right person--even if there is only one person--with the right idea, the site is actually very simple.

No longer wordy, the following directly for everyone to do some of the site's practical suggestions:

1, as far as possible use of off-the-shelf systems, rather than autonomous development. For general corporate websites, E-commerce sites, strongly recommend not to do development. If you are an enterprise website, find a ready-made content management system (CMS) system. In the domestic CMS, Supesite is a good choice, E-commerce site, directly with Ecshop on it, Web2.0 Web site, you can use X-space, forum, discuz! is preferred. Many people will ask whether these out-of-the-box systems have many limitations, and that performance is not good enough--these are unnecessary worries. On the one hand, these systems have a good customizable, as long as a html/css skilled, and a little bit of PHP program based people, can be based on your request to build a good site. If you can not even find such a person, then use WordPress to your business to build a blog system it, both stylish and practical.

2, LOGO, art work can be outsourced to the Granville customer site. I am k68.cn's old user, in the above list should not be less than 5 times. Although can not say every time 100% satisfaction, but from the price, K68 to the result is impeccable. If you spend hundreds of dollars, you can get more than 10 good ideas, and then you pick out the one you most agree with and let the designer to beautify the final results. Unless your team has a good art design, or you are willing to spend dozens of times times more money to ask a real professional designing company, otherwise, K68 is a good choice.

3, as long as you can please the corresponding developers, what technology development in fact does not matter. Php,java,.net, which performance is better, this is a question that I am often asked. Believe that many users as the user of the Internet, the most painful thing is the Web page speed is very slow. So when people do their own site, the first thought of the nature is "My site can not be so slow just good." In fact, although the different technology in the performance will certainly have a difference, but this kind of difference is generally waiting for your solar PV reached millions of when it can be reflected. The reason that most Web sites are slow is due to problems with the programmer's own code. A good development language, a dead loop for a beginner programmer can easily paralyze your server-believe me, this is a real case. So, in the early days of web development, the most you need to worry about is not which language is better, but which language you can ask for excellent developers.

4, Product Manager is very important. The function, layout, process of the website, or--user experience with the current fashionable name, is to a great extent decided by the ability of the product manager. This person better understand a bit of technology, and more importantly, the user has a deep understanding of the details have a paranoid pursuit. Many successful websites, the CEO himself is the product manager. Development work can be outsourced, and your product manager must not outsource. Because a good website must be constantly improved, product manager is a long-term job.

If the principle of Web site development is a simple summary, it is: with the fewest people, write the least code, rapid release, continuous improvement. The latter two actually source and Google's "Quick launch, fast iteration", and the first two are combined with China's national conditions--for the general company, if lucky, you may find two or three good developers, but if you do the premise of the site can be found n> 5 of the best developers, your first site will probably never be published.