HOW TO CHECK THE QUALITY OF THE AGENCY CREATING YOUR WEBSITE?

There can be another reason for errors, the so-called "Masaż," or making as many pages as possible for clients for the least money, even at the expense of code quality, because, as one of the politicians said: "the nation is stupid and will buy everything." But this is also the fault of the customer when he expects a great website for PLN 400. It's as if he wanted to buy a good new car from one of the best brands, with climate, leather seats, etc. for ... PLN 10,000. It is impossible. Even cars from the Far East are much more expensive :).

Don't believe if the creator of your website says that the W3C validators are incorrect or that such high quality code is not achievable. This is bullshit! For example, you can see my hand validację www.gddm.com.pl . As you can see there are no errors.

Website quality and popular CMS and frameworks: Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Bootstrap

Sometimes you have to compromise and accept some mistakes. For example, when we use a CMS, Drupal, Wordpress or Joomla. Unfortunately, quite often there are errors, the improvement of which is associated with "burying" in the CMS source code or waiting for the next version, in which the CMS community will correct the errors. But in this case we are talking about 2, 3 or 4 errors, and believe me I know a lot of so-called interactive agencies, which have several dozen (and sometimes several hundred!) errors in their own website codes, in html and css codes. Unfortunately, the pages made for customers also have a lot of errors.

QUALITY PERFORMANCE OF YOUR WEBSITE AND THE AGREEMENT

Now you know how to check the quality of your website due to the correctness of HTML and CSS codes. If you have carefully read my advice, you will do it yourself and without much problem. But remember also about the contract. The contract you sign with the company that makes your website. If there are no relevant provisions in the contract regarding the quality of your website code, only the request or legal action remains. Therefore, before you sign something, read the contract carefully.

APPEARANCE - WEBSITE DESIGN

Appearance - website design is the feeling of users and website owners regarding the so-called beautiful or extremely ugliness. The site's appearance is connected with very subjective feelings for each of us. Just like in life, some prefer short brunettes, others tall blondes, and others well-built dark-haired atyn. It is similar with the website. It often happens that between the initial appearance proposed by the designer and what the customer finally accepts is the gap. Sometimes it's just not worth fighting with the customer about the appearance of the site. If he has his vision and is the owner of a small or medium company, ruling the company with a strong hand (and this can usually be seen immediately), it is better to immediately submit to his vision than to "fight windmills."

UTILITY - USER EXPERIENCE

Usability - User experience, UX - the whole experience that the user experiences when using your website. Some people think that the website design mentioned above is part of UX. For me it's a matter of "academic considerations." And personally, I prefer to separate the appearance of the site from its usefulness. UX is a very extensive issue and as I mentioned I will describe it in the next article. Here, I will only emphasize that as part of UX one of the most important elements is the matter of adapting the website and its functionality to devices with different screens, i.e. responsiveness, "mobile friendly", etc.