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Understanding Your Client's Needs

Category: Web Design Tips

Posted: Oct. 7, 2008

All too often what your client wants clashes with what he or she needs. This must be ironed-out during the planning stage of your project way before a single script is written. Never take this issue lightly.

In our experience at Proweaver, there was a project of which we had wasted so many programming hours in following the client's specifications who later realized that it wasn't what he needed. It was a disaster. We assumed full responsibility and did a complete turnaround to finish the project.

So at the initial stages, you need to make certain that both parties understand the ultimate objective of the project. Yes, the customer may be wrong at times but when it's post-planning stage, the customer is always right.

Custom web design is indeed tricky because though we ought to follow our client's specifications, it is extremely important to discuss first with the client the soundness of his or her ideas. Always put the client's best interest forward in your discussion to give you more bargaining power in case you want some changes in the plan.

Basic Page Structure

Category: Web Design Tips

Posted: Sept. 30, 2008

Custom web designing is uniquely challenging because the designer needs to unravel the labyrinth in what the project's stakeholders exactly want. Moreover, what the client wants may not be what the client needs. At Proweaver, our professional designers will not only give their inputs but they will also strongly advise against a design direction which is not in the best interest of our clients.

When we were new in the business, we thought of producing spectacular designs with imposing graphics. Along the way, however, we had an epiphany—a website is no more than a piece of document. It basically serves to provide information to the viewer.

Proweaver's open secret in custom web design is this: follow the flow in how everybody reads a document—TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT. The most important content should be at the top, flowing from left to right. The same goes with the graphics.

Proweaver Updates

Posted: Oct. 7, 2008

Real estate website in 10 seconds! Proweaver has recently completed the massive development of a highly-demanding project called "One-Click". It is a cloud-inspired web application that lets anybody create a website in just one click, all done in 10 seconds or less. One-Click runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) within Amazon's robust and proven network infrastructure and datacenters. With Amazon SimpleDB and Simple Storage Service (S3), data is stored durably with no single points of failure, thus assuring 99.99% availability. The developers at Proweaver employed PHP Zend Framework with Smarty as the main scripting language running its complex algorithms. One-Click will be released (beta) before end of this month. Stay tuned.

Posted: Sept. 30, 2008

Proweaver website redesigned. The web design team at Proweaver has launched the new design of its website. The new look is in line with our thrust towards a simple, direct-to-the-point, and content-rich Proweaver website. The new design is consistent with HTML and CSS standards. The new website runs on an instance of Amazon EC2.

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