Common Mistakes in Web Programming

“To err is human”. But this statement doesn’t help when you have cut-throat competition to stand against. Today, every business has its own online platform. While it has helped reach out to a global audience, it also opened up fierce competition. Mistakes in web design and development are not just met with criticism but you stand to lose out on customers and more importantly revenues and profits.

However, the world has become more complicated for the web programmer. The demands of end users are drastically changing and websites are required to be more information oriented, user friendly, attractive and complete with the latest tools for the industry. There are more chances of error when you are trying to focus on so many things. Here are some common mistakes that every programmer needs to recheck and address.

Mistake of Web Programming

1.    Missing out on opening/closing parenthesis
2.    Declaring classes/functions more than once
3.    Misspelled variables
4.    Redirecting users after sending output to browsers
5.    Using access modifier to define class
6.    Not using “Strip Slashes” for special character removal
7.    Cross site scripts
8.    Avoiding minified J-Query
9.    Improper comments and poor formatting
10.    Unexpected T_String
11.    User authorization error
12.    Failure to preserve OS command structure / Web Page query / SQL Query
13.    Coding complexity

Web development today is in the fast-forward era and programmers don’t have the chance of making any errors. Websites directly relate to the revenue generation for the client and being the face of the business, programming can be referred as the barometer of website success.