PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT
Jacob Tyler Creative Group is San Diego's premier web development and web design company! Our friendly staff can provide a custom web
design solution no matter how large the project. Much like a software developer or software engineer, our company specializes in
the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol from a web
server to a web browser.
Located in the heart of San Diego, CA, Jacob Tyler's web developers and marketing consultants are also skilled in 2.0 web design, web
content management systems, graphic design and internet advertising.
Due to the increasing complexity of web applications in recent years, our expert web developers often had to specialize in either
frontend or backend work. Frontend developers focus on the user interface and typically work with technologies such as ECMAscript and
its variants (JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript), CSS, and the DOM. Backend developers usually focus on the interaction between
server-side frameworks and databases. Some backend developers maintain databases directly on their web servers, while in other
situations the backend developer calls data, managed by a database administrator, on an external system.
COMMONLY USED TOOLS
Popular development tools:
Visual Studio, Aptana, Dreamweaver, Zend Studio, Quanta Plus, NetBeans
Server-side languages/frameworks:
PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, JavaServer Pages, ColdFusion, Django
Client-side coding:
ECMAscript and its variants (JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript); Markup Languages such as HTML and XHTML, the
Document Object Model, Cascading Style Sheets, XUL
Browser plug-ins:
Firebug, IE Developer Toolbar, Venkman, DOM Inspector, Web Developer Toolbar (Mozilla)
Data storage:
Descriptive text such as XML, JSON, YAML; Database Management Systems including MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle Database
STANDARDS IN WEB DEVELOPMENT
Jacob Tyler adheres to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) which maintains a set of open standards and guidelines that are generally
considered best practices to follow when programming for the web. Often, web developers help contribute to these open standards and
guidelines through their work on open source projects working to help enhance and debug web-based technologies.
However, because of the fairly low barrier to entry -- freely available development environments (web server environments and
development languages), freely available tutorials and information on how to do web development -- novice web developers often do not
adhere to the open standards and guidelines. Additionally, poorly designed or proprietary software tools that don't follow the open
standards and guidelines create ad hoc and de facto standards which must be followed in order to "make things work". This was especially
true during the "Browser Wars" of the 1990s. It is becoming less true as more and better tools enter the marketplace.
For samples of our work, please visit our interactive portfolio
