Services

Strategy

Ever thought your website doesn't convey what you or or company actually does? You're not alone. Website planning and organization is difficult for many people, but that's why professionals like us have jobs. We're here to help. You may have in house developers and designers, but you might just need some guidance to put it all together. We can create site maps, flow diagrams, and wireframes and take the lead in project management.

We can help build a website that is right for your company that will grow as you grow.

If you are unfamiliar with any of the terminology below, that's okay. Feel free to contact us and we would be happy to explain what these things mean for you in detail and how it will help create a better website.

Design

User Interface

A site that is unsuable or not functional can harm your company more than it can help it. A clean user interface and clear concise navigation can make a huge difference in a site. People like websites that are easy to use. It helps them find what they need in an efficient manner. We have clients that say I like the way my site looks, it's just hard to find where things are in the site. We can provide consulting and implementation to make your site better.

Graphics

Whether you need small icons to a full site design no project is too small or too large for us. We can design a fun new Web 2.0 design or a more corporate look and feel. Maybe you are considering rebranding your company. Your logo is important and brand recognization is what your customers remember.

Development

XHTML

XHTML is a successor to HTML. The purpose of XHTML is it’s XML based standards. XHTML has emerging support in all the modern browsers on desktop computers and is supported in other devices such as mobile phones. Another reason for using valid XHTML is to provide programmatically correct documents. Code that is well formed and easier to read is not only easier on a programmer to use, but it’s easier for a computer to read and understand as well. This means the page can load as fast as possible in the browser and the search engine can easily read the document.

CSS

CSS is a programming language used to layout and style an XHTML page. This includes fonts, colors, layout, and any other presentational aspects of the document. Many of the images can be loaded as background images in the CSS adding focus to the content in the XHTML page that the spider uses. The CSS is stored in external files and will not be parsed by a search engine. This is beneficial because it is crucial that the search engine finds the content in the XHTML in the most efficient manner possible.

By converting a table based layout to XHTML/CSS, it eliminates any extra code found in many layouts by keeping data elements in the XHTML file and layout elements in the CSS file.  This makes the code easier to read for both the developer and the search engine spider.  A developer can also use XHTML to define importance of certain aspects of the site and relay that to the spider.

JavaScript

Advanced JavaScript can make your website more interactive with the user as opposed to your traditional point to point to point style web architecture. JavaScript has to be functional or it's not something we would recommend otherwise. It has to have a purpose and increase the usability of the site without hindering the user experience. We are proficient in advanced object oriented JavaScript using the latest JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype, Mootools, Scriptaculous, etc. If there is another library you are interested in or have special JavaScript needs, please let us know.

PHP

We are proficient in writing object oriented PHP code that will help integrate the front-end to the back-end of your site. From templating logic to integration with backend data mechanisms such as SOAP/WSDL, JSON, XML/RSS, databases, etc, we can create PHP code to integrate with your existing data infrastructure.

We are familiar with a handful of content management systems (CMS) written in PHP such as ModXCMS and Drupal as well as templating languages such as Smarty.

If you have PHP questions let us know. We can point you in the right direction.

MySQL

MySQL is the database of choice for the majority of our projects. For the most part the style of sites that we create that need a database backend can be handled effectively with MySQL. We have some experience with other SQL based databases as well. Let us know if you have something else in mind.