What makes a good web development company

What makes a good web development company?

The world of web development is still very misunderstood. So when you need help turning your ideas and designs into a high-quality website or web application, how do you know who you can trust to achieve this?
Below are the key areas that we are going to consider and what you should look for in a web development company.

• He knows how to do both front end and back end.
• Don't specialize in one back end technology.
• Must follow best practices.
• Understanding the marketing strategies surrounding projects.
• Invests time in research and development.
• Has a rigorous testing process, including automated tests.
• Change flexibly.
• Use source control.

He knows how to do both front end and back end:

We don't agree with the ideas of the developers who are engaged in front-end development and the developers who are engaged in background development. This is equivalent to having plumbing that is only suitable for pipes and leaves suitable baths, showers, sinks, and toilets to someone else. We agree that there is a separation between web developers and web designers, there is a completely different process of thinking, but the separation between the interface and the background is simply wrong. To be a good web developer, you need to understand the full development cycle and be able to participate in the project from start to finish. Working with different technologies, you can learn a lot, but we will return to it.

Don't specialize in one back end technology:

There are a number of good server technologies suitable for web development, including Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net, and PHP (and others). They all have their strengths and weaknesses, and no one is perfect. A good web development company needs to be flexible in what technologies they use to make the most of their customers' needs. The main reason we spent time researching a number of technologies is so that we can choose the pieces we need. Over the years, the developers participating in the League have been able to explore all aspects of each technology, formulate a range of best practices and use them on all platforms.

Must follow best practices:

The key to becoming a good web developer is not the technology you use, but the best practices you follow. As technology comes and goes in our fast-growing industry, these best practices will remain, or at least will evolve. As a developer, if you have a good base, then you can quite easily keep up with the times and technology. So what are these best practices we're talking about? Below are some of the key we follow:

• Writing semantic HTML
• Follow web standards for all interfaces
• Automatic testing of both external and internal code
• Using MVC infrastructure

Understanding the marketing strategies surrounding projects:

We have heard many times this complaint that web developers do not think about the marketing strategy of the project. This is usually because developers don't care. Well, they should. How can they advise customers and think about helping customers find the right solution if they don't think of the "bigger picture". If the developer does the job blindly, he does not offer the client a service, he is just a meat puppet. The most important question a developer can ask is, "Why?" Take the time to fully understand the customer's requirements and advise them, because the client does not understand all the intricacies of web development, like you. Make the development cycle a two-way conversation.

Invests time in research and development:

As everyone knows, the web industry is a very fast-growing industry. Things come and go in the blink of an eye. A good web development company gives developers the time they need to learn about new trends and technologies. Admittedly, some of these trends and technologies have stalled, but you won't know if you don't look at them.

If you want to know if a web development company knows there, just ask them what their developers have recently studied. You don't need to understand everything you're told, write them down and browse the web to see if companies are looking at new trends or not.

R&D is probably the most important time for a developer every week. If developers don't evolve, the solutions they create will become too stagnant and obsolete. As a customer, do you want an outdated solution before you even start?

Has a rigorous testing process, including automated tests:

Too often we have seen that the client is a tester of the project. If this happens, let's face it, the development company doesn't understand your project well enough, they just kick out the code.

A good web development company should write automatic tests (integration tests, unit tests, etc.) for all its code, both external and internal. On a simple level, the tests help developers focus on the code they are writing at the time, and they also help developers write more concise code. A more concise code means that the codebase is easier to understand and cheaper to maintain.

The main advantage of a test set for the client is that when you make changes to the code in the project, you can have much more confidence that the change or new code has not broken anything else.

We're not saying that automated testing is a silver bullet of web development, and tests are only effective if they're written well, but they certainly should be part of any set of web development tools.

Automated tests are not the only important aspect of testing. The web development company should also have a level of human testing, and this is certainly what customers should be involved in. User stories are the key to this process. As part of the development process, customers must work with a web development company to collect user stories so that all parties involved understand how users will interact with the site or app, and the results of these Interactions.

Flexible to change:

We've all heard developers complain about how their clients changed the requirements of the project halfway to the project. Developers need to stop complaining about this, it's happening to all of us and it's never going to change. A good web development company needs to have processes to cope with the changes. If you're a customer, ask how the change requests will be handled.

Web developers should work with short release cycles, preferably 1-2 weeks. The worst thing that can happen to a project is that the developers get a summary, start work, and then after 2 months announce that it is finished, only for the client to say, "This is not what I asked for!" By working with short release cycles, customers can be involved at all stages. At the end of each release, the client must check the project and submit any change requests.

Use source control:

Our latest recommendation to most people is pretty obvious and simple, but we still reach out to developers who don't use any form of version control. This seems more common among freelancers since they don't see the need as they are the only ones working on the code. If that's how they see it, then they're missing the point.


There are many reasons why all code should be controlled by source code. We'll only point out a few key points here. First, it's a great way to keep a log of changes made to the code. (As long as the developers put the comment in the commit). Secondly, and most importantly, it allows developers to change the code without fear of losing the work already done. This is especially useful when looking for other possible solutions to the coding problem.