Once you have gave a deeper thought about the goal of your website (read about “First steps planning your web design” by Carlo) you need to think about how the web pages (with text, image, video, input forms, etc. content) will be structured.
Good starting point would be to first try to think of what message [...]

What is the goal of the website?
Of course you have to start from here. Is the goal to get the visitor to click “buy now” or “order now” button on e-commerce website and reach the “Thank you! Payment successful” page or just fill a form and end up “Thank you! Information submitted!” page so you [...]

Simple - if you order from X web development company or even worse outsource your CMS and shopping cart for example from freelancer in India who will use his Z content management system then what will happen if that X web design company or freelances one day disappears? Unfortunately that happens to really often. Now [...]

Customers often want us develop new website to their domain name customer.com but until the new website is finalized, tested and the content added, the old website should still be live.
I’m going to explain the easiest way to do so without extra time (=cost for customer) spent on transferring new website to another hosting server and also [...]

If you are working in the web development field you have probably come across the situation when you have created a nice new web page – it has the looks, it has the functionality, it has everything you’d wish for and most importantly everything the customer wished for but yet the customer rates it 3 [...]

MODx won in Packt Open Source CMS Award 2007 first place at most promising CMS as it was still quite in a baby stage but seen that something good will come out of it. In August MODx Evolution 1.0 released and before the end of 2009 MODx Revolution 2.0 will release so let’s help MODx [...]

Detailed planning is most important. Every singe functionality that you want to see in website should be defined beforehand as the cost of developing it is cheapest before development starts and the price increases when development has begun as it was not planned by programmers when they decided how to build database, what frameworks / [...]

There are thousands of open source different content management systems around the web, I have used more than ten different CMS systems mainly Drupal, Wordpress (great for blogging but can be also used for CMS) and Joomla but sice I found MODx two years ago I never use any other CMS if customer doesn’t want [...]