Monday, September 1, 2008

Web development team or a single web developer?

If you decided to start business and create your own site in order to sell products or services then you have a choice to hire a web development team or a single individual. This mainly depends on the size of your future web site. If you are going to have a small site without luxuries then you can take services of a single web developer. But he must be a professional and has background in different fields. But if you have a world-wide business then your web site should have an appropriate size. People can visit your site 24 hours a day and it is very favorably for your business. Remember that your web site is a face of your business and it is available throught the world. So, it is a great work to create an attractive and winning site and in more cases this work should be implemented by a reliable and solidary web development team. One more advantage of a team of web developers over an individual developer is that in case of emergency almost every member of a team can assume the duties of an absentee workmate.

A good web team must consist not less than of 5 members. An ideal web team must have at least 7 specialists. They are: a web developer, a project manager, a web designer, an application developer, a system administrator and two or more web analists. In cut variant of a web team a web developer can serve as a web designer and a web analist can be also a project manager. For a small web project one analist will be quite enough.

The project manager is the main person in the team. He serves as a supervisor of the project and team members. The project manager represents his team and acts as a middleman between the team and the client. He must now how to awake the client’s interest in the services that his team offer. Only a sociable person can be the project manager.

The web developer is one of central members of a team. His prerogative is the work with web development tools (including exellent knowledge of HTML). But his secondary function as to serve as a connecting-link between the project and the project manager.

The web designer is also plays a very important role in web development team activity. His task is to create the graphic design, choose right colour spectrum and sort out attractive images for the site. The web designer should also have good knowledge of multimedia tools.

The web analist’s main assignation is to check whether the client’s wishes coincide with the work of other memebers of a team. His additional function lies in giving advice about designing and content of a web site.The application developer is an expert in JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, ColdFusion and other programs.The system administrator is a team member who should have an eye on maintenance and security of the web, servers for application and database.

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