10 Web Development Concepts a Designer Should Know

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Tuesday, 17 May 2011

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Writing- a -

Brief

1


E x a c t l y

What - are you -

building?


Separate

WHY- from -

HOWTuesday, 17 May 2011

DescribeWhat Users

DO


Be clear - about -

what you will

provide


- consider -programmingconstructs

2


Conditional Logic

if... then... else


Loops


why is that

Thingdifferent?


Storing

Data

3


“ The UI is not just an interface between the browser and a human, it’s an interface between a human and a database.

You can't have an interface unless you can connect to both things. If you don't know how your interface connects to a database, what are you interfacing to?

Ryan Singer - in an interview at Future of Web Apps London 2010


This costs

timemoney

-&-developer

SanityTuesday, 17 May 2011

SourceC o n t r o l

4


- What is -Source Control?


GitSubversionVisual SourceSafe

Mercurial

BazaarTuesday, 17 May 2011

Do you useany kind

- of -

sourcecontrol?


Do you use

SourceControl?

NO37% YES

63%


Do you use

SourceControl?

NO22%

YES78%


Do you use

SourceControl?

NO56%

YES44%


Why bother?


Back

up


-Pick up-a projectanywhere


Rollback - to a -

Previousversion


Bring inanother

teammember


Hostedsource control


beanstalkapp.com


-Professional -DevelopmentEnvironments

5


Developingdirectly

- on the -

live site


5percent


Developing - in a -

subfolderof the live site


Developing

locally- Without a -

web server


Mirror the live environment


Run your own

server


Create proper stagingservers


CodeRe-use

6


Lazy is good


- Code -Snippets


snipplr.comTuesday, 17 May 2011

S t o r e commoninterfaceelements


StandardTest elements


- Form -

Validation

7


- The -forgotten

states


Protect your

design from

Programmers


Considerfront

- & -back endValidation


Don’t make

spam- a -

userproblem


E-commerce- & -

takingpayment

8


Welcome- to a -

whole newWorld

- of -

PainTuesday, 17 May 2011

What do you

reallyNEED?


Don’tforget


SpecialOffers


ShippingOptions


VAT- & -

localtaxes


TakingPayment


Options


Storingcard data to process later

is nOtaN OptioN


Makesomeone elseresponsible


Pci Dss


Pay Pagecan be a

comfortto your users


Pay Page

savesyou

money


Designing forPay Page solutions


Pay PageTuesday, 17 May 2011

Send pageTuesday, 17 May 2011

Hosted PageTuesday, 17 May 2011

hOsting

9


Cheap hosting is

expensive


Don’t be at thebottom of thefoodchain


Types of

hosting


Sharedhosting


VirtualPrivateServers


Dedicated


Cloud services


Should YOU become a host?


Security

10


- Be -Paranoid


S p a mdefacement

- & -

stealingdetails


It’s Not Personal


- The -hiddencost

- of -

FreeTuesday, 17 May 2011

SoftwareUpgrades must be part

of the

SpecTuesday, 17 May 2011

Hack at your

peril


Be extra

paranoid about 3rd party

plugins


Keep server software

up to date


Only store- What you -

really need


Never store

plain textpasswords


Shift

liabilitywhere possible


HALP!!!


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