There is something about web design that I often find surprises me. Now I understand the complicit contradiction I just made. If it happens often, how am I surprised? Well, like most everybody I still assume that when I start a project, design comes 1st, then development and finally testing. However, every time I develop a new application I have always found at the end wondering why the design just does not look that good. Not only does the and design composition not work as well as the psd, but the little knick knack things are not quite right. Colors…

If Web 1.0 is described as the read write Web,  Web 2.0 is described as the age of mashability, information sharing and social media than it is probably safe to assume at this point that web 3.o will be all about mobile apps. If we have learned anything from those businesses that were successful in Web 1.0 is that transitioning to the new version is a bit like brain cancer . It’s a story heard over and over again, failure to adapt. The death of giants. It’s hard to believe that the mobile app movement is only 2 years old….

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  I love this. It challenges out whole way of thinking about managing people. How do you behave when you are managing your team? How are developers and designers motivated? Will this work with them? Or does this very notion offend?     

Project tools are great. The do make sure projects go quickly and keep cost down. But not every tool has it right. Sometimes they just ask for too much administration. Participation usually wains and it cause serious break downs in the system. One of the things I have always liked about Weblance is their ability to keep project management simple and easy. The number 1 way they do it is the project wall. Just like facebook, just about everything pops up there. Communications, comments, file attachments and various other tasking items. It means that it is not necessary to hit the project page those times you…

Testing and data can be time-consuming and often add unexpected costs to a project. The more complex an app is created, the longer testing and beta usually takes. Getting through testing and beta quickly is a high priority for web creators and appreneurs. There are several very popular ticketing systems out there, however most of them are designed strictly for support. The needs for ticketing during an app build project are quite different. The trick to having a ticketing system be successful for building apps is that it is simple enough to encourage participation, does not ask users to go…

Cutting edge languages produce better apps, or do they? So let’s be honest for a moment. Most people in this business, reading this article or using Weblance will be technology enthusiasts. Whether you’re a provider or a client, technology seems to have some magical power over us that is akin to the proverbial kid in the candy store. It does not matter if it is programming languages or big screen TV’s. Many of us will walk into some big box retailer and naturally gravitate over towards the large screen TVs with our eyes glazed over and nerves jumping in our bellies. It’s…

Simply Awesome. I am licking the crumbs of the future of the plate. You can never watch enough things about the future of the world. Appreneurs range from snow boarders to doctors. The ways apps can improve out lives is endless. So the problem of the future might not be online privacy so mush as addiction. Addiction to our apps. After looking how google is planning to deliver these apps to us, http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12321 and learning how we live out lives, you could really learn allot about to be the next apreneur crossing the billion dollar mark.       

The challenges in app development are never unique. They’re always the same challenges whether you’re building a little website or the next eBay. The best ways to overcome these challenges are to use project planning tools, best practices and solid project planning methodology. The team at Weblance has spent about a year analyzing these issues and developed a series of project planning tools to deliver these best practices and project planning methodologies to the marketplace. I have not listed them all but here are my favorites. Set expectations based on solid project planning Project planning is an important part to…