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Working With a Developer

Have you decided to hire a developer to help you with your site? This can be a smart choice, but it's a little more complicated than hiring a plumber or a car mechanic. You can retain tight control as the developer crafts your site -- but only if you educate yourself on some basic concepts. The articles in this section could save you hours of billable time.
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Planning Your Site: Details You'll Need to Give Your Developer
Hiring a developer to build your website? Understand the information you'll have to provide.
Planning Your Site: Let Your Developer Handle These Details
You see websites every day, but building sites is a specialized field. Know when to let your developer make the call.
What Web Designers and Web Developers Hate About Project Managers
Most large Web teams are made up of many people. And in order to keep those teams and projects on schedule and under budget, there is usually a project manager as well. But while a good project manager keeps teams working together smoothly, they can often be annoying to the Web designers and developers working with them.
What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers
Web developers and Web designers both work on websites, often on the same site at the same time. But they don't always work smoothly together. Web developers are the programmers of a website and tend to worry less about how the site looks than how it works.
Perfection is Overrated—Web Design is Not Print Design
Do you work with graphic artists and print designers who are always criticizing your web designs? Well, they need to learn that the web is not a graphic and it's also not print. Flexibility is key to web design.