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Great developers
breathe life into ideas.
Magic? Yep. Sounds right.
The word development comes to us from the Old French for “unwrap” or “expose.” Appropriate enough. It’s through the work of developers that great ideas come to light.
Developers may work on the front end—the visuals and interfaces that users ultimately see in their browsers—or deep in multi-layered back-end code. Either way, their work is crucial.
Our developers are fluent in a variety of the latest languages and frameworks—React, React Native, Node, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python. In addition to building custom full-stack enterprise applications, we also specialize in leveraging WordPress, an intuitive and robust content management system, to empower clients to make ongoing changes to their sites, all while saving them the work of dealing with the dizzying back end.
WordPress
WordPress is at the heart of every content-based site we create, offering custom experiences that are remarkably easy to adapt. As a content management system, or CMS, it’s wonderfully intuitive, enabling clients to modify their own content long after launch. It’s also extremely robust, extensive, and flexible, equipped with enough functionality to handle the most complex projects. We have decades of collective experience with it and know how to use it to its utmost. Read more about our expertise with WordPress.
React.js & React Native
React is a framework that’s built on top of JavaScript, offering developers shared tools to build highly complex, high-performance user interfaces and scalable web applications. React Native uses the React framework but allows for work on mobile apps. The sweetest part of the deal: When you write a single app in React Native, you end up with both an iOS app and an Android app. It’s our native app technology of choice. Read more about our expertise with React and React Native.
Node.js & Ruby on Rails
Node makes code smart. Rather than stitching together each individual plugin, developers can select plugins from Node’s library and use its package manager to install only what’s need. This consolidates code and gets all of the JavaScript into one file. We use Ruby on Rails, a server-side web application framework, primarily because WordPress is PHP-based, and we use PHP as a server-side framework. Rails, as it’s commonly called, offers a robust selection of features and tools for designing the foundations for API-based app development. Read more about our expertise with Node.js & Ruby on Rails.
FLEX Layout System
We devote ourselves to making intuitive experiences for users. Now we’ve created a tool to make back-end work intuitive also. FLEX streamlines the process of building and editing websites, using a row-and-column paradigm and drag-and-drop functionality to clear away clutter and make content more orderly, thus avoiding costly errors. Best of all, every FLEX project starts with the same parent theme, to which we add child themes through WordPress. This allows us to effectively override the parent theme and customize the user’s experience, all without tinkering with original code. Time and money: saved. Learn more about how we’ve supercharged WordPress with FLEX.
Responsive Design
With more than half of the traffic on the internet now generated by mobile browsing, optimizing your site for every device is more important than ever. If you want to be competitive, mobile is no longer a desirable addition. It’s a base requirement. Responsive websites look good and work well in different browsers and on different mobile and tablet devices, regardless of window or screen size. Every website we create makes the grade.
Native Apps
Trying to develop an iOS app or an Android app by itself means doing everything twice. By using React Native, you can get it done in one fell-swoop. That means double the bang for your buck, and that means a lot to clients. See some examples from our native app portfolio.
CMS & Content Migration
Every content management system has its charms. Drupal, Adobe Experience Manager, Joomla, ColdFusion—we’ve migrated content from all of them to WordPress, our CMS of choice, writing custom scrapers to help us get the job done.
E-Commerce
We build killer e-commerce sites that draw users in and boost clients’ sales—all while keeping everyone’s data safe. Shopify is our platform of choice, allowing us to implement custom components as well as advanced analytics and SEO. Encrypted links and properly hashed passwords are only the first steps we take to shore things up, and when a site launches, we give our clients the tools to track its success in real time. Clear metrics, data, and analytics leave no room for doubt, enabling our clients to position themselves strategically and adapt for growth. Read about the nuances of creating an e-commerce website.
Front-End Development
Whereas back-end developers create the architecture upon which sites are built, front-end developers concern themselves what the user actually sees—the HTML, the CSS, the JavaScript or jQuery. In addition to their work in code or WordPress, front-end developers keep everything up front tidy, neat, and bug-free, ensuring that everything displays correctly on a variety of different platforms, browsers, and devices.
Data Visualization
There’s nothing quite like a punchy visual to synthesize complex amounts of data. A chart can encapsulate everything from buying trends to survey results, presenting in one elegant image what would otherwise take reams of words to convey. We’ve done data visualization work for numerous clients, bringing order and clarity to what could otherwise be unwieldy and overwhelming. Great web designers should aim for no less. Learn more about how dataviz might work for your project.
Work
From our blog
Development, Tips & Tricks
In the CSS Lab: *Shiny* Gradient Hover Effect
Sarah Quigley • June 8, 2018
