Tips on rapid web development

• Requirements and design need to be known in advance.
• Separate content and presentation through appropriate technology, such as Ruby on Rails, or CSS and XHTML.
• Separate functionality and presentation using internationalization guidelines.
• Implement a modular design.
• Identify in advance the areas where data is going to be presented to the user. Plan in advance for the possibility that users from different locales will be using your site.
• Identify the target audience for your site or application. This may include the requirement to localize it.
• Use template pages to ensure a consistent look and feel across the site or application. This recommendation also extends to style sheets.
• We treat our requests for rapid web development in the same manner as software projects, so we use automated processes wherever possible to either build or perform validation before deployment.
• Test your application across multiple browsers. It is our experience that many sites and web applications look and feel different, also and more importantly, function differently across differentlbrowsers.