HTML is the standardized web site
design language. However, rapid technological development has
made the language to take back stage as more focus is placed on web portal development
with extensive use of sophisticated web development tools. As a web designer,
you must conduct technological analysis before developing a website. This exercise is conducted to determine the most relevant
and appropriate technology for the web.Technological analysis is very
important for web design for following reasons;
1.
It allows you to determine the personnel that
will give you the intended input in the development.
2.
It allows you to determine development budget as
it will influence the hosting plan and other costs.
3.
The exercise allows your choices to be based on
factual reasons
4.
Relevant softwares and implementation platforms
can be factored at the development initiation and secured for the actual
development.
Conducting this analysis in
practical terms involve objective analysis of the functionalities desired in
the website coupled with possible technologies that can be deployed for
achieving them. You have to conduct an head-to-head analysis in various aspects
like servers (wamp, apache, IIS and so on, programming languages (JSP, ASP.net,
PHP and so on), image formats (PNG, GIF, JPEG and so on), database engines (MySQL,
SQLserver and so on) and development environment (Visual studio, Dreamweaver, FrontPage
and so on).
Having done this numerous times,
I can boldly claim that the effort is worthwhile as the end result always bring
the most appropriate technologies that will seamlessly integrate for optimum
web functionality. However, conducting a technological analysis must be
conducted without any form of sentiments or else the aim of conducting will be
defeated. Also, interaction with other technologies must be considered while
selecting the appropriate technologies.
I will be discussing Content
layout and interface design in the next lesson. Please don’t miss it.
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