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BANG! Web Site Design in Phoenix, AZ provides Web development services to companies large and small in Phoenix, Arizona, and across the country.
Is Web Development And Web Design The Same Thing?
Web Designers - Right brain creative types that accel at artistic tasks such as layout, color, and typography choices. Responsible for making sure the site looks good. The right person to ask if your shirt, tie, and pants go together.
Essentially, web designers are digital designers that work on the front end of web pages, the client-side of the website and work to provide a great users experience for a site visitor. Front-end developers may also provide some client-side work, such as adding drop-down menus on websites.
If you are building a site that's simply an image piece showing how cool the company is, you may only need a
Web designer.
Web Developers - Left brain analytical types that handle code writing, database queries, performance optimization, and web applications' functional portion. Also called backend developers, they typically work on the server-side of a project. Tackling tasks like data management and validation, and are likely fluent in multiple web technologies. At a small web development company, they may also be responsible for writing the project description and the scope of work covering program features.
A web developer job can be very similar to software development, except the "software platform" is the Internet. For example, a web developer may be requested to build an online course in experiential learning that would involve user logins, modules that would provide multiple courses of web content, tests that would determine whether or not the user learned the course content as expected. They would also implement the website's flow and usability and thoroughly test website functions before and after the site goes live.
Does Your Project Need A Website Designer Or Website Developer? Or Both?
As an example of choosing one over the other, a prospective client had a great idea for a community directory of like-minded individuals. Sadly he hired a Web designer who helped him buy a pretty WordPress template that was entirely inappropriate for his community. He wasted countless hours over the next several weeks deleting pages and removing features from the template he just bought, trying to rework the site to how it should have been from the beginning. We quickly realized the web designer had led the client in the wrong direction at our free introductory consult. The site needed visitors to perform a search on three entirely different criteria, yet the web designer gave him only one empty text field to search by. I suggested giving users the choice of Category, Location, and Type, via a drop-down menu. Then site visitors can pick from the search results, not make wild guesses only to get to a page with "No Results Found."
Why were we able to clearly see solutions to both design and development challenges, instinctively knowing which approach would work best for his community members? Perhaps because when I take left brain vs. right brain tests, I wind up right down the middle. I can see both designer "artistic" and developer "functional challenges" when discussing a project. After 25+ years of designing and developing websites and experience in the tech industry, we can quickly foresee obstacles in the project, often before we even start on the project, regardless of whether it's a creative or data management challenge.
Why choose a right-brained Web designer or a left-brained Web developer when you can hire the BANG! Team and get the whole brain?
Our full-stack developers can see both sides of almost any web project. Right-brained designers to take care of your artistic needs, left-brained developers who will take care of any web programming challenges, along with an
SEO expert to make sure your finished site ranks well. Need tech support after the sale? We've got that covered as well.
So now, use your whole brain and make the right decision and leave all the challenges in hiring a
Phoenix Web Development Company behind! Call us today at 602-427-5626 or schedule a free 30-minute consult
here.
Frequently Asked Questions About Web Developers
What Does A Web Developer Do?
While every web development agency is going to have a different task list, at BANG! these are typical project management line items assigned to a developer.
- Setup forms as required for site visitors to interact with and provide information to the website owner
- Tests the site for proper function in multiple web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & Microsoft Edge
- Implement websites back-end admin areas which a customer will use to manage the site
- User login systems for password protecting parts of a website
- Implementing site search functions
- Ecommerce functions such as connecting to the Authorize.net API
What Skills Do I Need To Be A Web Developer?
Obviously, a web developer needs to have a web fundamentals course completed, and individual lessons in computer science would be a plus. Educational requirements may not be a huge factor. We look for ability more than certification at BANG! when we hire web developers for our team.
Talent and desire to understand how things work is an excellent trait as there is a fair amount of problem-solving and troubleshooting that takes place during a website development project. A programming background is expected, and fluency in web languages such as .php, .net, and at BANG! we look for experienced
ColdFusion developers, and experience with Lucee, and Java is helpful.
How Much Do Web Developers Charge?
At BANG! our current hourly rate is $125 per hour, which is low for a Phoenix Web Developer. However, be aware that an hourly rate is only part of the equation. You still don't know what your project will cost without knowing how many hours it will take. We'll provide a
free web development quote on most simple projects. Complex websites without a complete scope of work will require some upfront fees to determine precisely what needs to be accomplished during development.
How Do Web Developers Make Websites?
Web developers use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) instead of a visual-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) software program. They are generally poring over lines of code that might be consuming to a web designer.
What Do Beginner Web Developers Need To Know About Web Security?
The biggest thing they need to know is that it is their responsibility! Poorly put-together code can result in significant security compromises on the server, from SQL injection attacks getting data out of a database to DOS (Denial of Service) attacks. We are very proud to say we've had less than a handful of security incidents over the last 25 years.
What Criteria Should I Follow When Hiring A Web Developer?
While most businesses tend to look at the cost as the overriding factor, I encourage them to look long terms and choose a web development company with a proven track record of delivering successful projects. It's much cheaper to do the job right the first time than to burn through multiple freelancers before getting the job done. As one of our clients (who has been with us for eight years, by the way) said after trying two other companies first...
"I started out wanting a strong website and after two failed attempts by other website developers, and you guys delivered." - Patrick Radosevich, Grill Grip.
How Do Professional Web Developers Host Their Client Sites And Is There a Professional Web Standard?
I'm not sure if there is a standard, but at BANG! we host the websites we build. Hosting sites ourselves provides some advantages for the client including...
- A hosting environment without surprises for the development team simplifies the project for everyone. We work with these web and SQL servers every day, and we know how the they have been set up. We spend less time troubleshooting the hosting environment and more time getting the project done.
- Since we control the servers, we can make sure that any one server doesn't get overloaded with too many sites. With shared hosting elsewhere, you have no clue what the server load is like. Need a dedicated server for your site? We can take care of that too.
- We monitor every site by loading the homepage every 5 minutes and make sure it's working. I've yet to find another web developer that cares this much about uptime.
Most importantly, there's never any finger-pointing between the web designer, web developer, and the hosting company. We'll take care of everything for you. If something isn't working right, we know it's our responsibility to fix it and we'll promptly take care of the issue.
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