Web re/design
consultation and collaboration
Ready to create or reinvent your web presence? We work in partnership with you through all stages of the web development process -- from planning and organization, to design and building, to long-term maintenance. We'll begin by establishing clear goals about what kind of visitors you want to attract with your site, what you want them to find there, and how the site will further the needs of your business. Then we can evolve a structure that best presents your information while serving those needs, and finally we can determine how you want the site to look. All of our code keeps the content (words, images) separate from its presentation (layout, fonts, colors), in accordance with web standards and best practices, so you can easily maintain your site or update its styling later without a major overhaul.
Services
We offer a wide range of services around creating and managing your web site:
- Site evaluation
- Information architecture consultation
- Site design or redesign
- Search engine optimization
- Content creation assistance with writing and editing
- Domain registration and hosting
- Site maintenance
We are happy to set you up to maintain your site yourself if you wish, and can provide training in plain English, although many clients find it is actually more cost-effective to have us handle their occasional updates.
Technologies
Following are some of the tools we can help you employ on behalf of your business, once we determine together which tools will fit best with your web strategy:
- Simple web pages
- Photo galleries
- Embedded calendars, maps, or videos
- Databases
- Content-management systems including Wordpress and Drupal
- Dynamic sites with back-end programming in Perl or PHP
- Mailing lists
- Blogs
- Wikis
Philosophy
Our aesthetic is clean and minimalist, friendly and functional. Our priorities and expertise lie in helping you craft a positive experience for your web users, using simple, engaging design and clear organization to make your site easy to navigate. If you dream of splashy Flash-y intro screens that "entertain" your site's new visitors while delaying their gratification of reaching your actual site content, we are probably not the best match for you -- although we would be happy to explain what we can do for you instead.
All of our sites comply fully with web standards (we use validated XHTML markup and CSS stylesheets) for maximum usability across all the different computers and software your customers may be using, and for improved findability by search engines.