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Web development process
How to budget for a web development project
Website building involves more than just web development. There are a lot of things to consider when building a website. Most small businesses and non-profits immediately look to the programming and design elements…
Website Hosting Service: Why Knectar Loves Pantheon
At Knectar, we spent many years creating our own development environments from scratch on various hosting platforms, our preferences changing from time to time based on their relative price and performance. So…
4 Questions To Ask Before Starting A Web Development Project
It might seem pretty straightforward to prepare for a web development project. You know what your company sells or promotes. You know that you need a beautiful website to ultimately accomplish those…
Why We Chose Drupal: Insights from a Web Development Company
To build or borrow a CMS Back in the early days of content management system (CMS) development, before there were any clear market leaders, developers had a genuine quandary: build or borrow.…
Web Development: To Spec, or Not to Spec?
When we begin to work on a web development project, whether it’s a site we’re building from scratch or a rebuild of an outdated site, we almost always include some kind of specification…
Custom Website Development: Why you need the Discovery Process
The most frequently-questioned line item in our estimates and proposals is the one labeled “discovery.” And fair enough: when a client has submitted a thorough RFP, what’s the use of this vaguely…
Streamlining Your Beanstalk Deployments
Our original deployment workflow at Knectar involved the following post-deployment script in Drush: # run database upgrades if there are any, (and enable new modules/features drush updb -y # revert all features…
Web Development and Fractal Geometry
What is a fractal? From Wikipedia: “Fractals are typically self-similar patterns, where self-similar means they are “the same from near as from far”.” What aspects of web development and associated project management…