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No longer are the days of building a website with a couple of content pages, a contact form and a phone number on top. Websites today include forums, blogs, interactive flash presentations and often, extensive server side programming. What does this mean for your business? There’s an old joke in the programming community that goes something like this - when a client asks you if you know how to do something, first say yes, then learn how. With the amount of competition in web development today, your web programmer should be on the top of his game and be able to implement any solution your company needs.

With that said, here’s the good news. If you can dream it, it can be done. If you want your website to include streaming video, it can be done. If you want an extensive database to track financial statistics in real-time, it can be done. If you need a flying cow dancing across your web viewer’s page, well, yeah, it can be done. The possibilities are endless for your website. Before you start meeting with web developers, have internal meetings with the people that matter at your company to decide what features you want on your final website and then discuss them with your web developer(s). One problem you may encounter is a feature you believe is simple may actually be quite complicated and cost a significant amount of money to develop. This is generally the trade off between “cool features” on your website and the cost to implement them.

Shop around. In reality many web developers have a greater skill set then their competition and can implement a solution with much greater ease then the next guy. Remember, time is money, and thats what you are paying for. Your company doesn’t actually have to absorb the cost of the flying cow, only the time it takes to draw it.