Website Design Overview
We design websites that are usable, accessible, and built to web standards. They look good, are relevant, optimized for search engines, and utilize our custom content management system (CMS).
We have considerable expertise in building comprehensive web solutions to solve our client's online needs. Our specifically designed methodology allows us to deliver beyond our clients' expectations on even the most challenging projects. The most important step in our process is to invest the time and resources to fully understand what our clients' needs might be. Our confidence in our ability is built by our successful track record with previous clients.
Web site design is a critical selection criterion for a client, but it is also subjective. One client may prefer one style while the next client desires something quite different. To best serve our clients, 316 Design stays in touch with the markets we serve, the design community and abreast of all the latest design styles and trends. This allows us to offer our clients the widest range of options and determine what design is best for their unique needs. Our CSS driven, flexible design will simplify your work and maintain consistency throughout.
Part of our mission is to build websites that meet web-compliant standards as designated by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and bring this technology to the markets we serve. Web Standards allows for consistent presentation across the site. One of the benefits of web standards is cross-browser compatibility, with newer browsers getting the full experience, while the site degrades gracefully for older or less able (phone/PDA) browsers.
Web Standards reduces the cost to maintain a website. Web Standards-based pages are little more than a collection of semantically rich tags, with a pointer to a powerful CSS file. This clean separation makes it much easier for you to develop and maintain your pages. Future redesigns can be done rapidly and at a greatly reduced cost because css files generate the design.
Web standards-based designs allow usability to people with disabilities, including vision-impaired visitors. Sites can be created to adhere to Section 508 Web Accessibility.
A quote from The Web Standards Project -
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call "web standards," are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.
Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market."
We utilize the same design process for web sites as stated in "Our Design Process"
Site Architecture
316 Design's flexible Web 2.0 architecture separates the content (HTML & data) from the design (CSS) of the web site. Most Content Management systems (CMS) lock the design selections into a rigid table-based template. Because 316 Design builds sites based on Web Standards, future re-designs may only require you to change one CSS page. Future redesigns can be done rapidly and at a greatly reduced cost.
Our web sites are built using web-compliant standards as designated by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), including XHMTL and CSS. One of the benefits of web standards is cross-browser compatibility, with newer browsers getting the full experience, while the site degrades gracefully for older or less able (phone/PDA) browsers. Web standard based designs provide better usability to people with disabilities, including vision impaired visitors. Additionally, CSS-based page design allows for consistent presentation across the site and is optimized for search engines.
Content Management System (CMS)
We utilize our custom Content Management System (CMS) to manage your website where people can log-in and contribute. Additional benefits of a web-based system are that no additional commercial software needs to be installed on your computer. Our CMS will manage pages, products, articles, news, and events. The system can be customized around your business process and will use a non-technical interface. Want to read more about our Content Management System?
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