Commercial web development has been around for more than 10 years. As an industry, we are still fairly young when you consider others that have been around for centuries. But our relative youth as an industry is no excuse for not doing better. From the number of sites that have been rebuilt for clients, it’s clear that there is still a lot of poor quality work being done and this affects us all. It means clients are more wary and less trustful of web developers. Anything that tarnishes our industry can tarnish all of us individually. This leads to the obvious question – what’s the answer? Having tried, trusted and standard approach would go a long way to helping avoid the mistakes we see over and over again. Ie. a web methodology. However, finding a methodology that works for web development is not easy and making it work is even harder.

Martin Bauer, Bruce Morrison and Jo Lane from designIT are contributing authors to the new eZ Publish book just released by PacktPub

Web development as an industry is barely 10 years old. Thanks to its youth and the dot-com boom, the industry is filled with a wide range of skills and mindsets, ranging from traditional software developers through to people with no development experience.There's also an impression that Web development is different -- less complex -- and therefore the old rules for software development don't apply. The end result is an immature industry with a vast range of approaches, none of which has yet emerged as the industry standard.

designIT from Australia is now an official Premier eZ partner. The company has created several professional sites for the Australian market and has proved that they have the experience it takes to be a Premier partner.

This article looks at the value of requirements and which areas to focus on in order to deliver projects on time and on budget.

When I first learnt about FDD, I was impressed by it's simplicity and clarity. As a development process, it stood well out from the crowd when compared to other far more cumbersome & complex processes that seemed only to make things harder.

After learning more about FDD, my opinion of it as a development process was not in question, I wanted to use it. The issue was whether I could apply it to what I did, ie. web development And if that was possible, how to go about making it happen?

Although a development process, Feature Driven Development also takes into consideration the human side of projects.

A case study of open source content management using eZ publish

In March 2002, we were asked by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia (GCCA) to look at redesigning the gradlink website and implementing a content management system (CMS). This case study covers the rebuild of the gradlink website using the eZ publish open source content management system.

This document is written to give an introduction to using smartys content caching features.
Enabling content caching can significantly improve a sites performance and reduce resource usage.