Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Outsourcing of web development task across the world

Outsourcing of web development task to India has been considered as one of the most beneficial methods of web building. It has several advantages like cost effectiveness, quality services, good technical support and complete web solution etc. most people don’t know that it has some disadvantages too.

Now let’s look at disadvantages of outsourcing web building projects to India:

1. In India you can come across thousands of new development firms which have fresh web developers in their staff-lists. These new companies and their developers often don’t have the required experience and understanding of the market. So they sometimes fail to produce satisfactory results despite having good technical support.

2. Another difficulty with new offshore firms is their lack of understanding about the outsourcing process. Many prospective firms fail to survive here just because of this particular reason.

3. If you take the opinion of US clients, you can find that they feel that the color scheme and coordination offered by each Indian web development company is quite unimpressive.

4. Stability of the Indian web building industry has been always questioned despite incredible growth in the recent past. Political and religious turmoil is very common in India and its socio-economic structure is such that industries are bound to get slightest problem here and there. Naturally, people hesitate to outsource here.

However, it must be mentioned that hard work and competency of each Indian web developer has turned the country in to an outsourcing hotspot.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Web Developers gives their additional time for cross browser compatibility

Ensuring cross web browser compatibility is a must thing to do for all successful web developers. In fact, this aspect has become priority to many. Cross browser compatibility deals with ensuring that a website appears with identical looks in all major browsers like the Opera, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer etc.

You can often find that each professional web developer gives additional time for checking level of cross browser compatibility. A number of websites are available to help them out. They take sample shots of your site and show you that how it would actually look on the screen. You can easily get access to such compatibility checking sites through Google.

Now let me give you some useful tips for serving customers in a better way in terms of browser compatibility:

• Good web development professionals generally download a few of the leading browsers and check how their site is appearing on them.

• If there is any issue in terms of compatibility then take experts’ opinion.

• Specially check it in critical web languages like the HTML v1-5.

• Go for competent and experienced development firms or freelancers.

Well, I accept that sometimes problems arise because different browsers use separate coding languages and different scriptings. But the challenge for a quality web development company is to secure maximum compatibility despite that.