Website Development (CMS)

A Content Management System (CMS) is another optional add-on for our web design services. Whether you’re an ecommerce website or informational website, a CMS offers immense value. It can help your business manage and streamline your content, which can improve the efficiency of your content marketing strategy.

In most cases, our team recommends a CMS as a part of our web design services. We offer three CMS tiers — standard, advanced, and enterprise. Depending on your company and its size, a standard CMS often works.

Web development governs all the code that makes a website tick. It can be split into two categories—front-end and back-end. The front-end or client-side of an application is the code responsible for determining how the website will actually display the designs mocked up by a designer. The back-end or server-side of an application is responsible for managing data within the database and serving that data to the front-end to be displayed. As you may have guessed, it’s the front-end developer’s job that tends to share the most overlap with the web designer. Some common skills and tools traditionally viewed as unique to the front-end developer are listed below:

HTML/CSS/JavaScript
CSS preprocessors (i.e., LESS or Sass)
Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, ReactJS, Ember)
Libraries (i.e., jQuery)
Git and GitHub

Front-end web developers don’t usually create mock-ups, select typography, or pick color palettes—these are usually provided by the designer. It’s the developer’s job to bring those mock-ups to life. That said, understanding what the designer wants requires some knowledge of best practices in UI/UX design, so that the developer is able to choose the right technology to deliver the desired look and feel and experience in the final product.

DATABASE INTEGRATION

Many company websites feature a database, such as for processing multiple database. We provide full support for database integration, which we separate into three tiers — basic, advanced, and full development. As a part of our database integration services, our team of designers and developers work with your company one-on-one to ensure we develop and launch the exact database your company needs and wants.