Welcome to my new web design and development Blog. The purpose of this blog is to share with fellow web designers and developers my experiences whilst building and supporting web sites and web-based applications.
I will also be sharing useful code snippets via this blog.
Having worked with the internet for 12 years, I have seen many changes in the industry. I remember working with early versions of Dreamweaver and ASP v1.0 when it was first released by Microsoft and thinking it was cutting edge.
Websites today have come along way, the advancement of technologies, ASP.NET, JAVA, PHP and AJAX to name just a few, gives web developers power to their arm to develop much more than just static, brochure websites.
Of all of the websites I work on - either working direct for clients or on sub-contract work, almost all now require dynamic functionality such as shopping carts, content management systems, blogs or calculators. With all of this extra functionality coming on board, we are increasingly demanding more powerful servers, more bandwidth and general computing power. Search engine optimisation is also becoming more and more difficult with more businesses than ever competing for that first-page placement on search engines.
What the future will hold for the internet is still to be seen, there is talk of The Grid as a possible replacement, we shall see!
I will also be sharing useful code snippets via this blog.
Having worked with the internet for 12 years, I have seen many changes in the industry. I remember working with early versions of Dreamweaver and ASP v1.0 when it was first released by Microsoft and thinking it was cutting edge.
Websites today have come along way, the advancement of technologies, ASP.NET, JAVA, PHP and AJAX to name just a few, gives web developers power to their arm to develop much more than just static, brochure websites.
Of all of the websites I work on - either working direct for clients or on sub-contract work, almost all now require dynamic functionality such as shopping carts, content management systems, blogs or calculators. With all of this extra functionality coming on board, we are increasingly demanding more powerful servers, more bandwidth and general computing power. Search engine optimisation is also becoming more and more difficult with more businesses than ever competing for that first-page placement on search engines.
What the future will hold for the internet is still to be seen, there is talk of The Grid as a possible replacement, we shall see!
