Thursday, October 27, 2011

Ignore Web Development Mistakes at Your Own Risk

The difference between a successful web development company having a proven track-record of developing effective websites and a company that is not known for the efficiency of its websites is quality. This quality is determined by whether a particular web development company takes time out to right the wrongs made during custom web development or not. The fact of the matter is that that no development company can afford to ignore the mistakes made during the process of development. If it knows that its developers have made a bunch of coding errors and ends up ignoring this fact, they are doing irreparable damage to their reputation.

Apart from their reputation which takes a big hit, so do their clients because they are delivered a substandard product. Here are two negative outcomes of ignoring mistakes.

Failure to Ensure the Requisite Results

A client comes to a web development company with a set of requirements in mind. It is through the satisfactory integration of their requirements in the website/web application that the client can achieve his predetermined goals and objectives. Any mistakes, in the process of web development, can contribute towards the failure of the project and a situation where the end product is unable to achieve the desired results. For many businesses, such a situation results in a loss of revenue as they are unable to optimize the use of the application. The blame for all this can be laid at the door of the 'mistake/s' that were ignored by the company in charge of developing the web application or site.

Delay in Project Delivery

Why is it that some companies choose to ignore the mistakes done at the development stage? One of the reasons for this is that they don't want to miss out on the project delivery date. They think that if they spend time trying to sort out the problem, it will lead to project delays. So, they spend time trying to hide the mistake and trying to work around it. But, instead of helping them save time, such a solution actually ends up taking more time. What's more, such mistakes don't remain hidden for a long time and can rear ugly their ugly heads at a later date during project development. This leads to even more delays. So, ignoring mistakes doesn't pay in the long run. In trying to save time, such companies end up losing more time.

Trying to ignore mistakes is like a disaster that is waiting to happen. This is why it's of paramount importance that, if mistakes do happen during the process of custom website development, they are sorted out at the initial stages itself.

PLAVEB is a leading Custom Application Development and Web Development Company based in Los Angeles, California