WolfSmith Media's Web Design Services
WolfSmith Media offers a wide variety of web design services. The base of our work revolves around the following coding languages & programs: PHP, MySql, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash and SQL. Most of WolfSmith's dynamic websites are built with the PHP/MySql combination. Actual web pages are displayed using creative HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and Flash. Below is a list of our most utilized services when it comes to creating unique and highly-functional websites.
Web Design Layout/Graphical User Interface
Working closely with its clients to delivery unique and high quality website designs, WolfSmith Media takes pride in our ability to integrate complex functionality into a clean, easy-to-use web interface. Our website developers have the creative know-how needed to address these complexities resulting in a finished product that is straight-forward, easy to navigate website, and that fits the design specifications of the client.
Web Design & User Interface Examples:
W. Gerome Temple
SnowBomb Rideshare
REO Networks
Content Management Systems
Content Management Systems allow any web user with a basic understanding of computers to create, modify, and maintain the content throughout a website. Through a web-interface, administrators can access these features from anywhere that has an internet connection. Though WolfSmith works with the major open-source content management systems that are available, we believe that for most, simpler is better. That's why we have created our own CMS that allows our clients to maintain their site without having to worry about breaking it. Our CMS also provides more flexibility when working with the design of a website.
CMS Examples:
Sierra Business Council
Tahoe Ticker
Truckee Donner Public Utility District
Flash Design & ActionScript Programming
Adobe Flash is a complex design and coding program that allows developers to create animations, movies, and pretty much any other type of movement you may see on the internet. WolfSmith has utilized Flash for shopping carts, movies, photo galleries, animation, among others. Sometimes, designers will use flash to create pages that can't be implemented via traditional web design practices. We'll be honest with you up front - Flash often ads considerable costs to development. WolfSmith will consult with clients on the benefits and detractions of using flash.
Flash Development Examples:
Zirbel Architects
Sales Center Design
Faulkner Architects
E-commerce
There are many e-commerce products offered out there. Often you'll see the same template from one store to the next. WolfSmith has implemented many e-commerce stores - all with unique designs. This is important for many of our clients as it is essential to match their stores graphics and marketing with their online presence. Often clients require additional custom development of their online stores in order to meet their specific business function.
E-commerce Examples:
High Camp Home
Paco's Bike and Ski
Specialty Beads
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is become a hotly discussed topic among website owners in recent years. With the boom of Google, clients want to know "How do I get to be number one?" Unfortunately, Google won't tell you how to do this. Otherwise, everyone would be #1. Though search algorithms are constantly changing, there are many standards which should be followed in order to ensure that the search engines are cataloging your website correctly. WolfSmith builds every website to meet these SEO standards. WolfSmith also consults with our clients on the importance of content placement and relevance. Through these consultations, we are able to show our clients the importance that each piece content holds for search engines.
Mobile Website Development
Smart phones and mobile devices are representing a growing number of website visitors. Access to your businesses website is no longer limited to a personal computer or laptop. You want to be sure that your visitors are enjoying the best possible experience while browsing your website. Consideration for a mobile specific website is recommended.
Web page size may affect the speed in which a mobile web page user can access the page contents. Mobile sites often represent a stripped down, essentials-only type of experience. Though mobile sites are essentially stand-alone, mobile websites can use the same database content delivered by a content management system to your traditional website. This helps ensure mobile device and smart phone users see the same necessary content that your typical web browser would.
Payment Gateway Processing
Simply put, payment gateways bridge the gap between your website and your bank account. Many of WolfSmith's clients prefer to use payment gateways because it reinforces a positive experience for the user. Instead of being sent to another site like Pay Pal, the user stays on the site and completes the easy to use payment form. There are many payment gateway options out there and your bank often can get a better percentage rate with these processors. Popular processors that WolfSmith has implemented include: Authorize.net, Chase Paymentech and Jet Pay.
Shopping Cart
Not every website requires a full blown e-commerce system. Budget and product offerings often only necessitate a simple shopping cart solution. WolfSmith consults with each client in order to recommend on what approach should be taken. Should you need to expand from a simple shopping cart to a complete e-commerce system, WolfSmith builds all of its databases with expansion in mind. This makes migration to a larger scale online store significantly easier.
Shopping Cart Examples:
Tahoe Women's Services
Makboard
Sierra Business Council
Cross-Browser Compatibility
There are many different web browsers available in today's online market. Unfortunately for us web designers, not all browsers render your website in the same way. At WolfSmith, we try to avoid known browser issues by being smart with our website layouts. Even still, browser "hacks" are sometimes unavoidable when trying to achieve the desired effect.
In an ideal world, all website visitors would keep their web browsers up to date. However, a large enough percentage of web users are still using older browsers that lack web standards compliancy. When necessary, WolfSmith takes the time to ensure that your website content is delivered the same across all web browsers on both the Mac and PC platforms.
AJAX/JSON
You may not have heard of AJAX or JSON, but you have undoubtedly seen examples of its use in your web browsing. AJAX & JSON aren't new program languages, they are methods of implementing many languages together to create web pages that reflect live data as opposed to loading another page. They combine HTML, CSS, Server Side Scripting (PHP, ASP, CFM), and Client Side Scripting (often Javascript). Using these methods, WolfSmith is able to create fluid web pages that are referred to as Web 2.0.
AJAX/JSON Examples:
Tahoe Ticker
High Camp Home
Sierra Business Council