Over the last several years I have moved up the career ladder, heading up several company websites as lead developer. The majority of these companies have had a great deal of turn-over to lack of pay. They are essentially a steeping stone in life. I have noticed a trend of applications developers becoming website developers and vice verse. This poses a problem for future developers in taking over the site.
Applications developers this of everything as object oriented, all the way down to performing a query. I have seen it to many times that one must update a different page because a form that is only used once was create in it's own file and included in the site.
This is a waste of time for everyone. Make pages run efficient and the time to maintain them the same. Don't code a website so that the only one who can make any sense out of it is you. Use some judgment when creating functions or classes. Over the last 12 years I have only come across a couple of instances where classes we necessary at all.
Copies, grill developers before you hire them. Check there references and ask the right questions. Is your site easily to maintain?
Kevin Sanders
http://www.qccreativedesigns.com
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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