Best Practice

As a young discipline (as all internet related disciplines are!) web development has, until recently, been relatively unregulated and anarchic. Organic Development adhere to best practice guidance in the development of its websites and web products wherever possible. We have strict quality control procedures in place in order to ensure that all website are user friendly, well coded and functional.

The most important aspect of best practice in web design and development is to not over design your site. Creative can make a good site great, but it can also make a website fail.

Design should enhance usability and not inhibit it. If many websites are familiar or seem to have a similar structure, it is because the are tools and are designed to be easy and familiar to use. Imagine a keyboard that wasn’t laid out as a qwerty design, or a wheel that wasn't round!

All the biggest, most successful internet business have focused on functionality over design.

The fundamental rule with the design of your website is as follows: You can build an attractive website that works for half the price of a design rich website that might not work!

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Other elements of best practice.

• Well structured, organised and annotated code
• Small file sizes and removal of unnecessary code
• W3C validation
• Usability