How to find, hire, and work with highly productive software development teams and get a software project done at a fraction of the cost.

1 Million Project for 50k

Do less work – do it efficiently.
You start with a million budget but then recall the 80-20 rule (or Pareto Principle)  which states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. If you apply it successfully you will need only 1/5th of the budget. That’s 200k.
Then there are numerous studies that have demonstrated that productivity of developers and teams vary by at least factor of 10. So if you find and hire the most effective team, you will cut your cost again. OK, maybe it is exceptionally difficult to find such a team, and when you found it you will find out that it is busy with other work. And 20k sounds unrealistic, as they are an overhead of ceremonies: communications, documentation etc. But 50k is very realistic (in practice meaning a small team working on a project for 3 to 6 months).
All sounds good, but difficult in practice! That’s what we are set to explore in this blog: how to put 1m for 50k theory in practice:
How to find, hire and work with highly productive software development teams.
How to improve your work with your software developer and get the best value out of them.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a term describing a stylesheet language used to control the presentation of a page written in HTML or other markup language.

 

Like other web-related standards and languages, CSS was introduced and is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

 

Benefits of Bespoke Software

If you run a business and you take advantage of IT technologies, then you are running software; but what sort of software are you running? And is it actually helping you run your business?

 

Software usually falls into two categories: packaged (or proprietary), i.e. bought or downloaded ‘off-the-shelf’ or bespoke, that's to say, custom-made.

 

Controling the scope of a project in web development

When you work on a large development project, controlling the scope and changes is a very important task. Otherwise, the project could end up becoming unprofitable.

Video on Demand

Introduction

 

Video on demand is one of the popular web technologies playing an important role in Web 2.0 and modern Internet marketing. Usually referred to as "VOD", it can either stream the video content or allow to download it and watch it later.

The Importance of Clean Email Lists

If you run an email marketing campaign and don't ever want to be marked as a spammer, it is very important to comply with the highest industry standards. Keeping your mailing lists clean, by regularly removing invalid email addresses, is one of the most important tasks for any email marketer. 

 

Why is it so important?  

 

Search Engine Optimisation - What Is It?

When building and maintaining websites, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is about making sites ‘friendly’ to the search engines and helping the sites achieve high rankings in the search results for important keywords relevant to the topic of the website. It is also a service which we, at Magic Web Solutions, can offer separately or as part of a full-scale web development project. For more information about the service, please visit http://www.spiderfriendly.co.uk/.
 

Ajax versus Flash

Ajax & Flex Technologies

 

We can all see the changes happening on the web nowadays, in the web 2.0 era - sites  load faster, they are more interactive and often contain audio/video information; sections on a page are updated independently according to user actions, thus the web application is more responsive and generates less traffic; the user interface has become almost as convenient as using a desktop application.

 

Ajax

 

The Importance of Valid HTML Code

Why is it important to make your HTML code compliant with the accepted standards? There are several reasons to that.

How to: Write a Design Brief for a Web Site

Why do I need to write a design brief?

 

You have an idea for a web site (or, for that matter, a product) and you have ideas about how it should look; but how do you get these across to a designer?

 

With a design brief.

 

In a design brief you will set out the goals, objectives and key stages of your project and hand this to a design agency (or web developer).

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