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Search engine friendly websites is one of those often heard phrases, both from web site development companies and from their clients. Everyone knows that this is important to have, and yet it is one of the things that is actually often overlooked.

Search engine optimisation companies actually spend a lot of their time analysing a website and removing barriers to the search engines ranking a site highly. At the web development level, it is possible to build a site that is perfectly search engine friendly. One of the hardest types of site to get right though are database driven websites . Listed below are ten of the most common issues that are created, often unknowingly, in the development process of a dynamically generated web site.

New Bamboo, the Web Development Specialist warns against limiting web changes during development.  By taking a rigid and inflexible approach to web projects, businesses inadvertently risk delivering online products or services that do not fully meet stakeholder requirements.

In an independent survey of 100 senior IT managers and directors, 59% of respondents believed that by minimising the number of changes during web development they could avoid web project failures and reduce costs.  Furthermore, 45% of respondents felt that a greater focus on scoping requirements at the start would help the process.

“Changes are an inevitable part of the web development process. Those managing web projects are often under the impression that by limiting changes you can save money and time.  This is a false economy as the resulting software is often a poor fit for what is actually required. People also fail to think about the real cost of a badly produced web product.  This could potentially result in reduced sales or poor customer service,” argues Damien Tanner, Co-Founder and Director of New Bamboo.

Web Directions South ‘08 once again features a two day conference of leading international and local experts in web design and development, two days of in depth workshops, parties, receptions and other networking events. Featured speakers this year include

Speakers include Jeffrey Veen, Derek Featherstone, Daniel Burka, Douglas Crockford, Jeff Croft, and Lynne D Johnson, who will cover front and back end web development, web app security, web design, interaction design, and much more.

Queensland integrator, Ordyss, has acquired boutique web development company, Logisto, and bolstered its management team and staff numbers.

Managing director, Keith Lavelle, said the acquisition of Logisto offered another business line for Ordyss to take to the market. Logisto develops its own content management system, which allows them to reach deeply into an organisations content system using both internal and external web technology.

Lavelle said the new management appointments were made on the back of winning a major facilities maintenance contract with Gallagher Bassett Services and experiencing strong growth on the services side of the business. Ordyss assumed responsibility for all of Gallagher’s IT&T services including hardware and software procurement, desktop management, helpdesk, project delivery and services.

Jones will be responsible for the professional services arm of the business, which encompasses its software development and facilities management arm. He previously ran his own freelance consultancy company before joining Ordyss.

Hutchinson will look after the managed services business that entails its outsourced helpdesk and network monitoring function. He was previously the CIO of the Coffee Club. Prior to joining the integrator, Mair worked at venture capitol company, Pioneer Development Fund. Salvo has previously worked for Assured IT.

Software company Engine Yard said Monday that it has closed on a $15 million Series B round of financing from New Enterprise Associates and Amazon.com. Its previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated in the round.

Engine Yard, a 2-year-old company based in San Francisco, handles deployment and operations for developers that work in the Web development environment of Ruby on Rails, an open-source software framework. It helps developers serve applications through so-called cloud computing, or via third-party data centers. Despite Amazon’s investment, Engine Yard does not use the online retailer’s Web services offering at this time. It plans to in the future, however.

Engine Yard, which had raised about $3.5 million in January, said it will use the money for research and development of its upcoming cloud computing platform, among other projects. As part of the funding announcement, Peter Sonsini, a partner at NEA, will join Engine Yard’s board of directors.

Link Development’s work received two awards, one Gold and one Silver, beating many other web development companies across the region in the categories of ‘Best ICT company’ website and ‘Best Airline’ website. The awards were received for the development of Mobinil and Egypt Air’s online sites.

These latest wins come on top of the great success achieved by the company in the Egypt round of the competition earlier in the year, where Link Development had received ten awards and special recognition with a Diamond Award for developing the ‘Best Site in Egypt’ for Mobinil.

During its ten years of operation in the Middle East, Link Development has played an important role in the adoption of the Internet into the private and public sector, having developed numerous corporate websites and e-government portals.

One of the company’s strengths lays in the unique combination of software development and creative design skills, thus enabling the company to deliver complete e-business solutions. The company is also one of very few Middle Eastern software development houses to serve the European market, with an office recently opened in Italy to add to its regional network.

The Pan Arab Web Awards take place across the Middle East every year. Winners are elected for awards in various categories by experts from within the industry. The Awards aim to promote creativity in web design, to encourage professional work and international standards, to develop an interactive community and to serve as a platform for web designers to showcase work and attain market recognition.

This year marks Link Development’s third during which its work has been honoured by the organisation, having previously received awards in the UAE and Egypt rounds and later in the final Pan Arab round of the annual competition.

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All these languages and their associated tools and frameworks are fine and respectable tools. However, for this article, I’d like to focus on Adobe ColdFusion, an alternative language that actually predates most other web development languages. And, though ColdFusion predates many languages, it is far from being a lumbering dinosaur. In fact, ColdFusion has been whipped mercilessly by the forces of technological change and has evolved into a scrappy and tenacious survivor of a language.

ColdFusion has always focused on making complex and difficult tasks easy. The classic example of this is the ease of querying databases. In most languages you need to have several lines of code to establish a connection to a database server, several lines to build your SQL statement, a couple lines to send the request, more to close the connection and then several more lines of code just to output data from the query into an HTML list However, early versions of ColdFusion consolidated most of this tedious process into one tag that wraps the SQL statement you’re running and one tag that iterates over results.

The future of application development might be becoming a little more social. Sun certainly hopes so, and has launched zembly, a new collaboration platform for writing small, and lightweight web applications. It’s a promising start, squarely aimed at small, long-tail developers, and a new approach to collaborative development over the web. Challenges remain, such as the long-term reliability of third-party application hosting and the findability of small long-tail applications on large platforms.
 
I was able to demo zembly, which attempts to lower the barrier of entry to writing applications for social platforms such as Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial and the iPhone by sharing services and widgets and came away impressed with its focus on ease of use and belief in a new development process.  zembly is working to create a social setting for developers to share components between applications a “wiki for live, editable code that is more than just about trivial widgets, but rather about full-fledged social applications that can tap into the social graph and reach millions of users”.
 
Applications are written in javascript, rely on a widget / web service development model, and have an extensive architecture for securely managing developer credentials so that you can share outbound service calls without sharing your credentials.  These widgets and services can be shared, or cloned (forked) from other developers and carry a full change log with them, so you can freeze your dependencies to a given version.  The system makes source control and component sharing simpler for the uninitiated than tools like Git and Subversion that can be difficult to learn.
 
zembly hopes that network effects will kick in, as the service will be most successful if users trust others on the system, and share components freely - something that has been hard to accomplish even in large corporate development teams.  If successful, it will be this feature that distinguishes zembly from Google App Engine and other competitors.

Despite these concerns, as someone who sometimes needs a little peer pressure and social support to get started on development projects, I’ll be following zembly as they build out their community-oriented features and work to deliver on their promise to wiki-fy web development, and I’ll be looking forward to sharing code with friends online.

The recent years India has emerged as the outsourcing destination of choice for many of the global online businesses. With English speaking, talented and dedicated workforce, Indian IT companies are the top choice for clients who are looking for affordable outsourcing to India. Offshoreweboutsourcing is one of the leading IT companies in India who provide web development outsourcing services to online business houses. The company provides offshore outsourcing services ranging from web design, internet marketing, graphic design, multimedia services and web development.

Outsourcing development services to India is cheaper as compared to other countries as the client doesn’t have to take any hassles of hiring new employees, setting up infrastructure and bearing the cost of equipment. Offshoreweboutsourcing has world class infrastructure and equipment in a work friendly environment where the employees can work towards completing the client projects. By outsourcing the work to companies like Offshoreweboutsourcing, clients can rest assured of a timely delivery of their project and a high standard of output. The clients have the full control of the project at any given time in the duration of the project and offshore web development in India gives the clients dedicated resources for a long term basis till the completion of the project.

The offshore outsourcing services provided by Offshoreweboutsourcing are ideal for small, medium and large businesses. The company boasts of a portfolio that features some of the best online business firms from the fields of academics, fashion, entertainment, technology and many more. The highly experienced team of web designers, programmers, graphic designers and web content experts at Offshoreweboutsourcing are well versed in the demands and requirements of the clients and the every member of the team has extensive experience to handle any kind of project. The company believes in providing first class offshore development services that are customized according to the client’s requirements.

The clients are provided a team of skilled professionals to work with and the work hours of the teams can be adjusted to suit the client’s time zone. The client can also consult with the project managers at any given time to assess the progress of assigned projects. Offshoreweboutsourcing provides clients the best of offshore web development in India at most affordable prices and the wide array of services is available at an affordable fixed monthly price.