Hire PHP Developers has obvious cost benefits but it is not an easy task to decide on which company to go with for your web development work.
You can make a wise decision if you get satisfying answers to most of the questions raised below:
You can make a wise decision if you get satisfying answers to most of the questions raised below:
- How much experience does the web development company have developing PHP based web applications? A decent experience of over 4-5 years should be acceptable
- What enterprise and medium size PHP web applications have been developed by the company? Ask for live sites. Make sure they do not have just a few web apps under their belt
- Client Testimonials and References. Do they have those, talk to the clients mentioned
- What tools do they use in their development environment? See if they use industry standard tools or not. Licenced tools is a good indication sof company investing in right tools for the business
- Are PHP programmers at the company involved with any open source project? This would give a strong indication of company's commitment to PHP
- What revision control and testing tools are being used by the company
- Which version of PHP are they more comfortable with? Adept at both 4.x and 5.x is a good indication of experience and remaining in touch with the latest stuff
- Any frameworks they use for rapid development? If they name a few like CapePHP etc., then that means there is an approach towards minimizing mistakes and switching to standard way of development
- Have they developed N-Tier applications and if yes what did they use as a template engine. Smarty of other names mentioned would give you a good indication of if they ha really worked on this
- What are the work timings
- How will the web web designer or the team communicate with you? If there is a single point of contact in the form of a project manager then it is really good