Tasen Software - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Who owns the copyright on the graphic design?
Your business owns the copyright for your logo and graphics once payment has been made in full. Upon request you will be provided with a gif, jpg, bmp, or png file containing your graphics. These graphics can also be converted to tif and pdf documents.Who owns the copyright on the website?
Your business owns your website once payment has been made in full. You do not necessarily own the logos used on your website if they are already owned by another company. For example, a small Tasen Software logo will appear at the bottom of every page of your website, and you will not necessarily have permission to reuse this image in all cases.What is the turn around time for my website?
Once the initial 50% deposit has been paid in full, your website will take anywhere from 1 week to a month to be delivered. The deliverable date will depend, at least in part, on the complexity of the requirements.How can I manage my content?
You have four main options.- For a one time fee, we will develop content management components for each page that you would like to update manually.
- We can update your website on demand for an hourly rate, billed in 30 minute increments.
- You can purchase an annual content management package for non-billable on demand content management.
- If your website structure lends itself to open source or commercial content management software such as Joomla or ExpressionEngine, we can discuss those options during the project proposal.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
SEO is the process that web developers go through in order to increase the position of a website in search engine results pages (SERPS). Since the majority of website traffic comes from search engines, we want our web pages to appear somewhere on the first page on SERPS for a certain target keyword or key phrase. In order to do this we implement a few strategies when building web pages.Some SEO strategies include:
- Market research to determine the ideal key phrase to target
- Using terms from the key phrase in the content of each web page
- Manipulating file names and the website directory structure to include key terms
- Populating meta tags correctly using proper descriptions and key terms
- Utilizing alt and title tags when appropriate to reflect key terms
- Generating incoming links from websites with related content
- Submitting the website URL to search engines and directories
- Creating RSS feeds, publishing articles, publishing press releases, and much more
What is software engineering?
Software Engineering (SE) is the 7-step process that should be followed when creating software solutions.The software engineering process consists of:
- Gathering requirements
- Designing an interface & a solution
- Software development
- Testing and debugging
- Quality assurance
- Solution deployment
- Maintenance
During this process, a software engineer applies a knowledge base derived from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, interface design, customer relations, digital asset management and other fields.
The following blurb about software engineering was taken from Wikipedia
The term software engineering was popularized after 1968, during the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference (held in Garmisch, Germany) by its chairman F.L. Bauer, and has been in widespread use since.
The term software engineering has been commonly used with a variety of distinct meanings:
- As the informal contemporary term for the broad range of activities that was formerly called programming and systems analysis.
- As the broad term for all aspects of the practice of computer programming, as opposed to the theory of computer programming, which is called computer science.
- As the term embodying the advocacy of a specific approach to computer programming, one that urges that it be treated as an engineering discipline rather than an art or a craft, and advocates the codification of recommended practices in the form of software engineering methodologies.
- Software engineering is "(1) the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, that is, the application of engineering to software," and "(2) the study of approaches as in (1)." – IEEE Standard 610.12
