Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Time for Plan B...

Here at GeekyCreative we take a lot of trouble to plan our developments before we start to build them... we actually covered the process in a recent post which you can read here.

However, sometimes, something happens that means we have to adept our development to fit an unexpected request.

Just recently, we were asked to change a particular piece of functionality within just a few days of it going live. Our client had signed off our brief, been through our wire frames and beta tested their development. However, within days of launching it became apparent that we had all missed something... something which sounded very complex and therefore possibly expensive.

After looking at the new requirements and a few days solid development work we were pleased to be able to release a new 'improved' website for our client.

Today they paid the invoice including the little bit extra for the changes. With their remittance slip was a nice email to say that they were very pleased with the adaptations we had made and that it had given them confidence to 'grow' their website with us.

Looking back at what we changed and how quickly we did it, we noticed that the very way we develop our web sites gives us a greater degree of flexibility when changing and adapting them if needed.

All of our developments look very different and they ALL have unique functionality within them somewhere, some are more distinct developments than others, but they are all built on the same core .NET technologies. C# code, lashings of jQuery for better UI's and robust MySQL databases are our stock tools and to be honest we don't often go beyond these.

Yes, we do lots of API integration and often include XML within our framework but we stick close to our core skills and keep ourselves free to think about providing our clients with the best possible website to fit their needs.

So if you have an existing website that you would like to expand OR you want to develop a new website that is scalable to meet your changing business needs; please contact us, well take your website from A to B and beyond.

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