Design
About our Process
We build fully custom websites for each of our clients from the ground up, a process that requires time to research, generate, and test ideas that deliver results. From initial concepts to the finished product, we depend on our client’s direct input. This is especially true on projects that have many stakeholders and serve a large, diverse audience who have different levels of access to and experience with the web.
After discussing a general direction during the kickoff meeting, we develop static mockups that set the overall visual tone, layout, and navigation of the sites. We’ll meet to explain how these designs address the needs of your audience or solve any outstanding problems. Then, we give you some time to
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• Open source and freely available (no per-user costs).
• Built-in W3C compliance to promote access across browsers
• Mobile applications to support publishing from smartphones and tablets
• Plugins that help simplify form building, social media integration, and adding metadata for SEO.
STATEMENT OF WORK
Web Functionality
Accessibility
We aim to make the websites we build accessible to as many people as possible. In addition to responsive web design, which improves the site experience across devices, we take the following steps to ensure our websites are accessible:
• Use descriptive (-- removed HTML --) tags and descriptions where appropriate for images, audio, and video files;
• Ensure text is machine-readable (e.g., not part of an image);
• Create links for any embedded videos;
• Provide users with control over animated objects (e.g., pause controls for image sliders/carousels).
Finally, our in-house writer is available to help ensure content is written in plain language, easy to scan, and optimized for the web.
URL Rewriting
We will create 301 redirects to ensure people’s bookmarks will continue to function and that search engines understand where changes have been made.
Other Features
Your site will feature:
• Editable page content
• Special content areas for events and news
• A separate, backend interface for administering the site
• Social media integration (e.g., an embedded button linking to Facebook and any other chosen social media
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