is your website misunderstood and lonely?
Does your website have few friends, or alienate the few that come by for a visit?
The fact is, it is far easier to create a pretty website than one that actually does what you intended it to do. If it doesn't play nice with visitors, have something intelligent to say to Google and Yahoo, or is coded as elegantly as it is designed, it will never be more than an expensive business card.
A website is a balance of beauty, functionality, usability, technological compatibility and communication. You don't need to understand these intricacies, but the company building your website had better.
how can we help?
We understand usability, accessibility, web copywriting, code validation, search engine optimization and a myriad other technologies so you don't have to. We talk in real terms, create realistic and creative solutions, and we wear jeans.
If your website is lonely, clumsy or misunderstood, give us a call.
case studies
Rohit Communities
The task: take Rohit's internal business data and put it on the web in a format that visitors to the website could explore and understand.
requirements
- import internal NewStar data into a web-managed interface
- develop a comprehensive project, showhome and available home manager on top of the imported data
- create an interactive project explorer
- extend site registration into memberships and newsletters
Edmonton Public Schools
Edmonton Public Schools, Curriculum, wanted to put hundreds of sessions online, and let people register and pay for them online.
requirements
- redesign multiple websites, with commonality but distinctive looks
- ability to maintain website content without technical (IT) support
- online course/event registrations
- method for collection, organization, and distribution of information
- focus upon ease of managment, reduce training requirements across divisions
Ice on Whyte
The Ice on Whyte ice carving festival wanted to make a splash in the middle of winter, and they wanted us to help.
requirements
- a memorable winter-themed site
- a volunteer registration system and calendar
- a Flash-based image gallery
- the ability to manage the site content themselves
MacEwan College eLearning
We developed several interactive, Macromedia Flash-based eLearning solutions for MacEwan College.
requirements
- create a knowledge reinforcement tool
- flexible enough to be used in a variety of ways (images, lists, flash animations)
- include style layout options (color, size)
- make it possible to insert into ordinary html web pages
from our blog
Google Sitemaps for Mura: the plugin
- June 14, 2009
Google Sitemaps are the single best way for ensuring your website is being properly and fully indexed by Google. We've been playing with the Mura plugin architecture for quite a while now, and our first release is something that has all ready proven popular: automating Google Sitemap creation in Mura.
- By Grant
business solutions
Your business succeeds because it offers something unique to its customers, something that sets it apart from the competition. Whether its customer service, knowledge and experience, or a superior product or skill, you need to translate that ability into your website.
We specialize in capturing business processes and translating them into web functionality. We have the ability to develop and customize event management and scheduling tools, merchant systems, business managment systems, and nearly any other process that you can visualize.
Contact us to discuss how we can help translate your business success onto the web.
what we do
web design
Every website we design incorporates the following:
- professional graphic design
- SEO
- user-friendly designs
- fully validating frameworks (xhtml/css/javascript)
- accessibility enhanced
- comprehensive statistics
- cross-browser compatible
We also offer services in:
- Flash™ animation
- professional copy writing
web development
We specialize in web design and development, offering services such as:
- content management solutions
- eCommerce / storefronts
- event management
- information collection and management, PDF Forms
- eLearning
- Flash™ / AJAX
- Flex™ development
- Google Maps
- project analysis & design
- 'insert your ideas here'
