For the sake of all the other non-IT geeks around, I shall explain a little on what is a Database Driven Website. A lot of websites around in our world are mainly static. This means that the content does not change. However, some websites require their content to be updated constantly. These websites can be selling items online and has a constant need to add/remove items.

Such websites are database driven. This means… that all the products and the relevant information are stored neatly in a database (works on the same principle as an excel sheet). When a particular page is rendered, the information is retrieved from the database and rendered neatly in to a template kind of page before presenting to the customer.
So what is the secret?

Well, in the construction industry, we have the architects who design the house and the civil engineers who see through the construction process. The architects aim is to design something aesthetically pleasing while the civil engineers goal is to build something structurally sound. Both professionals have different goals but collaborate together to construct a building that is both aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound.

To create database driven sites which are professionally designed, we have to work on the same principles. To place of the architects, we have web designers. In place of the civil engineers, we have software developers.

and more importantly……

We let each group of professionals focus fully on doing what they do best! Our database driven projects are always seperated into 2 distinctive phase, a website design phase followed by the application coding phase.

Our designers will focus fully on making your website look great WITHOUT HAVING ANY CONSIDERATIONS on HOW DIFFICULT ITS IMPLEMENTATION WILL BE on the backend.

This is very, very important as a programmer will generally simplify the design in an effort to make the application friendly to code. This greatly compromises on the design quality of the website, i.e. instead of rounded corners, you get rectangular squares as they are easier to code. In 199Web, we mould our codes to achieve the relevant design effects, and not the other way round.

More importantly, by prototyping the entire application before the coding and development phase, we give clients a chance to provide the necessary inputs and feedback to shape the application to their specific needs.

199Web Development Process for Database Driven Sites