Should I hire development resources or outsource application development?
Ask yourself a few simple questions. Do you know how to hire and manage a team of developers? Do you know how to setup development environments? Do you want to become a software development manager?
If the answer isn’t yes, you will be in for an expensive odyssey if you try to build your own team. If you don’t know how to hire developers and implement processes, you could end up with a collection of people who use clashing techniques. To build an effective team, you often need more roles than just developers and engineers. QA, hosting engineers, architects, UX/UI, are all part of producing quality software.
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A custom eCommerce store could cost anywhere from $12,000/year to millions. Variable factors include the amount of custom features, the complexity of design, setup investments, training, and maintenance. Check out how to determine the cost of a custom eCommerce store.
Many people commonly ask “what is a framework in web development?” Web development frameworks can easily be confused with web development tools, languages, or parts of the web development stack (like .NET, PHP, JavaScript, or Ruby).
What is the best programming language for web development?
If there was one “best” programming language, then everything else would be obsolete. The reality is that there are so many different programming languages because there is no “best” language for any situation.
Web development can vary from a few hundred to millions of dollars depending on what is needed. You may simply need some changes to something that already exists, or you'd like to build a large or complex application.
People often lump web design and development together, so what's the difference? As the Internet has evolved, the skills required to produce a high quality website or web application have changed.
Historically speaking, JavaScript was only commonly but sparingly used in web development. The multiple browsers in use at the time each supported different versions of JavaScript and were slow to render more complex Javascript.
