How Can We Help You?
We’ve worked with single-person companies, corner shops, international organizations, global industries, and renowned educational institutions. No matter the size of the project or the scope of its goals, we’ve helped our clients create a memorable, successful web presence. And we can do the same for you. Here’s how.
Web Application Development
Application development can be a daunting task. From understanding database structures, language techniques, designing interaction, testing structures, and more, there’s a lot to know. We’ve been in charge of developing small, single purpose applications, and full scale multi-site content management systems. Each of these received custom, professional attention. Doesn’t your web application deserve the same?
Interface Design
Designing a web site is very different than designing a web application interface. Maximize the effectiveness of your application by having a custom, professionally designed interface. Design can go a long way to making an application extremely usable and efficient. We’ve designed application interfaces for large university management systems, popular blogging software, and more, each maximizing the usability of the application.
Web Design
Designing a website isn’t just about making it look pretty. It’s about connecting with your audience, and communicating your message. Put knowledge of your website’s goals together with proven design techniques and skill, and you have a recipe for success. We can help you design your website so it looks great, and performs at its best.
Template Development
Having a great design is important, but applying that design to your site with clean, effective markup and styles is equally important. Your website should be built with cutting edge, industry standard ingredients that work in any modern browser. We’ve developed markup and styles for nearly every website we’ve ever worked on. Steve is even published on the subject.
Information Architecture
Knowing what content should go where can be difficult, especially if you’re on the inside of an established organization. Putting yourself in the mind of a user can be a difficult thing. Bringing in outside help for your information architecture can make a real difference in making your site easy to browse for your visitors. We’ve helped large university sections and complicated corporate structures make their information easy to navigate and understand.
Interested?
If you’d like to find out more about working together, please contact us. We’ll have a conversation and see if we are the right people for your project, and if you’re the right kind of client for us. We hope to hear from you soon.
From Our Clients:
Determined to hold out for a world-class designer, I found that and more in Steve Smith. Steve did everything on our project from brainstorming the app to designing a stunning user interface to debugging our Rails code on occasion. When we needed some heavy lifting development help, John Nunemaker did an incredible job on key features including a cutting-edge AJAX calendar. He treated our project like it was his own and spared no attention to detail. One thing I love about these guys is how opinionated they are. They are not afraid to disagree, constructively, with their client or even each other, making the whole team and the product better.
Edward Brown
Dealerflow
Having been our sole source of design for the last 7 projects, you have consistently produced high quality work that has met, or far exceeded our expectations. Realizing that we have given you some tough objectives with sometimes less than clear direction, you have still managed to deliver designs that fit our needs perfectly. Quite frankly, I do not know how you do it. Kind of like the back of Joe's napkin for input, yet we get the Mona Lisa for output.
Michael Roberts, President
Fixed Element Inc.
Steve is the on the front lines of an increasingly more visible group of web developers that will strongly influence the next generation of the internet. As the web moves from the old model of online store fronts and static information to an exciting new realm of standardized development allowing for unprecedented new means of content delivery, developers like Steve will become increasingly more valuable and visible as they rethink old models and innovate new ones.
TIm O'Connor, Graphic Designer
University of Notre Dame
I want to thank you for the work you did on redesigning my consulting web site. As a web strategist, it’s important that my site “walks the talk” and you helped me get there. The look and feel are much more up-to-date now without being over the top. You also did a great job integrating the template into my existing site, making it very easy for me to get up and running.
C. David Gammel, President
High Context Consulting