Websites are often likened to field of architecture, whether in describing content organization (i.e. site architecture) or the act of “building a website” akin to that of a structure. Two of America’s greatest architects, Louis Henry Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, opined on the concepts of form and functions. Inquire with either of these masters and they would undoubtedly say you need to understand the purpose, function, and intended audience before you can focus on appearance. So why is this not the norm in website design and development projects? Through years of experience working with clients developing websites to overcome organizational obstacles we have refined a process for gathering critical information. By determining what the website needs to do, we can design a blueprint to build a website with measurable success.
Selecting a web development vendor is not the easiest task. If you are tasked with hiring a web vendor to handle your new website build or redesign project, you may find yourself at a loss for how to proceed. We offer three signs you may be talking to the wrong firm.
Presentation slides from our Accessibility presentation from the Digital Marketing For Business 2015 conference.
This post will answer questions about accessibility and usability with project managers and decision makers in mind.
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner created to implement the many repetitive tasks most developers have to do everyday. This post serves as a brief overview and introduction of Grunt.
Last week we were thrilled to learn that a site we developed, the North Carolina High School Athletic Assocation (NCHSAA) was selected as Best Sports Website in the 2014 Blue Drop Awards. Over the coming weeks we'll write a few posts highlighting some of the features of the site. In this post, I want to focus on some of the performance techniques we used to ensure quick page loads.