Custom Solutions

We will guide you through the many steps involved with developing or enhancing your online presence and make recommendations for the best solution to fit your needs and your budget.

There are many different solutions for developing a web presence. From one individual in need of a website, custom blog, or eBay store, to the corporate or ecommerce company seeking a global audience, we wear the many hats necessary to accomplish a wide range of projects. Below are brief descriptions of many of the services that we offer. Please call us for detailed information on how we can assist in achieving your online goals.

Complete web design and development

Fully Custom Websites

Custom websites require that initial spark to get things rolling. Perhaps you have nothing but a good idea &mdash we will begin with working with you to develop your idea into a brand and a logo. If you do have a logo already, this is a good place to start the design process adhering to your brands message. From there, we work with you to get a sense of likes and dislikes, along the way always considering the end user, usability, and the effectiveness of delivery the brands message or sale of the product.

Logos

We can assist with creating a brand that will become the cornerstone of your business and your website.

Design

From elegant to edgy, we will ensure that your website is uniquely your own with eye catching design. We believe with website design form and function goes hand in hand. Throughout the design process, we adhere to the importance of usability for your visitors to best showcase your message or product.

Flash

Elements of animation within a website can be an effective way of communication. We can assist with creating animations befitting for your requirements. For mainly search ability reasons, we do not recommend complete Flash website for most applications.

Examples are:
Header and page area introductions and callouts
Graphical informational display
Banner ads

Template based with varying degrees of modification

Website technologies have changed quite a lot over the last few years that allow the launching of an attractive and well functioning website without having to design and develop the whole thing from scratch. A number of these technologies are free open source template based solutions that we can assist in setting up. These solutions offer many attractive design templates that can help save the costs of custom designing and the basic code structure is already in place. We can modify these options to varying degrees of designing and coding to accomplish your goals.

Information Architecture

We take the time and research necessary to give your visitors or customers the best possible experience and make navigating your website as easy and intuitive as possible.

Content Management Solutions

There a few quality open source options such as Drupal and Joomla that makes for a quality code base to develop a website that you can update content yourself.

Blog Solutions

We can assist with setting up blogs for personal use, or as a promotional tool for your website to help drive traffic. Wordpress is our preferred solution, but we have experience in the most popular ones if modifications are required.

Domain name and hosting options

We provide all of the necessary assistance to register domain names and choose the right web hosting options for your needs.

Website Renovation

We're not afraid of 'getting our hands dirty', so to speak. We do not mind delving into another developers work to make any type of renovation, from small fixes to complete re-designs. We will also take your provided design mockups and turn them into fully functioning websites.

We will work with you to determine if your renovation requires an all at once approach, or can be split up into phases.

E-commerce

E-commerce is one of the cornerstones of the Internet. There are many possible solutions to display your product and allow customers to purchase them. Based on your requirements we will determine which of these solutions will work best for your business. There are customizable open source CMS solutions like OS commerce or Ubercart which give you the ability to upload all product and descriptions yourself and have all of inventory, shipping and invoicing tools available. One of our clients, Violin.org is an example of customizing OScommerce.

There are all inclusive out of box shopping carts like Clear Cart or Stock Box Photo in which you pay a monthly fee but the whole website and shopping cart is self contained on their servers. These offer varying degrees of modification in which we can assist in setting up and making the look and feel of a chosen design template more to your liking.

A couple of our client us this method with good results. Happydogsplay.com utilizes Clear Cart shopping cart software and mypixrock.com utilizes StockboxPhoto.com which is a specialty all in one shopping cart for photography.

There are other simple solutions such as eBay or Yahoo stores in which we can assist with setup and Modification.

We also assist with setting up merchant accounts to accept credit cards online as well as PayPal options.

Website Maintenance

So often we get a call from a prospective client that they require some updates for their website but the original developer is no longer available. Many designers and developers have a bad habit of building a site and then not providing follow up assistance. Again, building lasting relationships is at the core of our business and we pride ourselves on the fact that for nearly a decade we have been there for our clients when it is time to update their site - even if it is only a few times a year.

Example: cchphmo.com

Marketing

The age old statement of "build it and they will come" does not remotely apply to the launching of a new website. As with any other type of business, marketing is essential in order for your endeavor to be successful. We can assist with setting up a number of the internet's tools to cultivate the process of driving traffic to your website.

Here are some of the tools available:
E-newsletters
Banner advertisements
Search Engine Optimization
Social Media, setup and modifications
Blogs
Analytics
Google Adwords
Print media - Business cards, postcards, flyers, etc.

International Websites

We have experience with implementing translations of many languages - Chinese, Spanish, French, etc into multi-cultural websites. We also offer translating and QA assistance from a native Korean speaker.

Our client www.cchphmo.com is an example of providing maintenance for their English as well as Chinese Mirror website.

Multimedia/Graphic Design

We can assist with other forms of brand building such as video editing or graphic design services including business cards, letter heads, promotional flyers, postcards, CD/DVD box covers and the like.

Please visit our media site jibmixer.com for more details.