Stratecomm provides professional web design and web develoopment solutions that are tailored to best fit the goals and long-term success of each of our clients. The internet is a complex environment, and having a successful web presence requires the expertise of a team of web professionals.
Our web development portfolio reflects a proven history of delivering successul web-based products and services. Learn how the Stratecomm team can help you plan, create, build, maintain and market your online presence below:
Web Site Development Outsourcing
Web design alone will not help your business so much. With a good looking website you need a good developed website. For this reason we are doing also web site design and development for HTML static pages, PHP and MySQL, ASP.NET. At this moment all websites need php and asp.net content management systems.
We can design and develop ecommerce web sites, online catalogs, real estate websites for agents or real estate agencies, company presentation website, personal websites, and all type of internet applications.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Logo Design
A logo not only establishes your company's or organization's graphic identity, it also determines the color scheme and style elements used throughout your website. The logo ties the website to everything else your company does, through printed materials, signs, and other collateral material.
Quality logo design is deceptively simple. A good logo is easily recognizable, does not lose integrity when faxed or scanned, creates a positive resonance, and stands out from all the rest. It is consistent with your industry but still unique enough to separate you from the pack.
Most importantly, it has to be a design you can commit to. Memory is visual, and a logo is a hook on which everything about your company hangs. Reputation, memories of good service, and understanding of your products are all clustered, in the client’s mind, around your name and logo. If the logo keeps changing, all of the recognition that you’ve taken time to cultivate gets flushed out and must be rebuilt.
Quality logo design is deceptively simple. A good logo is easily recognizable, does not lose integrity when faxed or scanned, creates a positive resonance, and stands out from all the rest. It is consistent with your industry but still unique enough to separate you from the pack.
Most importantly, it has to be a design you can commit to. Memory is visual, and a logo is a hook on which everything about your company hangs. Reputation, memories of good service, and understanding of your products are all clustered, in the client’s mind, around your name and logo. If the logo keeps changing, all of the recognition that you’ve taken time to cultivate gets flushed out and must be rebuilt.
Hosting & Website Maintenance
Finding the right hosting service for your Web site is one of the many important steps that you will need to consider when planning a Web design or Web development project. Stratecomm offers reliable virtual Linux, Zope and Windows Web hosting packages designed especially for small-to-medium sized businesses, non-profits, agencies, and associations who expect a higher level of support and customer satisfaction.
Many of Stratecomm's web hosting clients also require website maintenance services to keep their website up-to-date with fresh content and graphics. Based on the frequency, volume, and regularity, we can suggest a comprehensive and flexible plan that will fit your needs and budget.
Many of Stratecomm's web hosting clients also require website maintenance services to keep their website up-to-date with fresh content and graphics. Based on the frequency, volume, and regularity, we can suggest a comprehensive and flexible plan that will fit your needs and budget.
Custom Web & Graphic Design Services
Top quality professional website design is what sets Stratecomm apart from other web design firms. First impressions are as important online as they are offline. A key element that will let your visitors know that your organization is professional is the design of your site. Custom web design will set your web presence apart from the crowd.
Custom design means that the look and feel of the website is built from the ground up to project the image the client wants. While it is possible to save money using pre-made templates, a serious business is almost always better off with a look that is both unique and tightly tailored to the requirements of the market. Custom website design costs a bit more, but the result is something you’ll be living with for the long term. The design of the website is the first impression many will have of your business or organization, and it’s the way you may be judged.
Web design can be simple or complex, but in either case it can be done well or very, very badly. Simple websites may look easy to do, but keeping something clean and professional requires a solid grounding in graphic design principles, as well as experience in creating websites. Once upon a time, the internet was a place anyone could splash up a bunch of text and a few photos and look like a serious player. Now, users are more sophisticated, expectations have risen, and professional website design has become the minimum standard.
Stratecomm has substantial experience in website design. We have designed sites for clients in real estate, law, banking, and government. We have created websites that appeal to college students, we have designed websites that have reassured high-end financial backers. We have appealed to potential voters, donors, and customers. Our design can make the little person look big, the strait-laced company seem fun, and the struggling group seem confident. More importantly, we have given a sense of place, an atmosphere to businesses that are seen mostly online.
Creating a website for a client from scratch involves a variety of skills and services, all of which we offer. We are at our best when everything is in our hands, but we have worked with clients who only wanted some of these services, using in-house or third-party vendors to accomplish the rest. Services involved in creation of a new website include:
Custom design means that the look and feel of the website is built from the ground up to project the image the client wants. While it is possible to save money using pre-made templates, a serious business is almost always better off with a look that is both unique and tightly tailored to the requirements of the market. Custom website design costs a bit more, but the result is something you’ll be living with for the long term. The design of the website is the first impression many will have of your business or organization, and it’s the way you may be judged.
Web design can be simple or complex, but in either case it can be done well or very, very badly. Simple websites may look easy to do, but keeping something clean and professional requires a solid grounding in graphic design principles, as well as experience in creating websites. Once upon a time, the internet was a place anyone could splash up a bunch of text and a few photos and look like a serious player. Now, users are more sophisticated, expectations have risen, and professional website design has become the minimum standard.
Stratecomm has substantial experience in website design. We have designed sites for clients in real estate, law, banking, and government. We have created websites that appeal to college students, we have designed websites that have reassured high-end financial backers. We have appealed to potential voters, donors, and customers. Our design can make the little person look big, the strait-laced company seem fun, and the struggling group seem confident. More importantly, we have given a sense of place, an atmosphere to businesses that are seen mostly online.
Creating a website for a client from scratch involves a variety of skills and services, all of which we offer. We are at our best when everything is in our hands, but we have worked with clients who only wanted some of these services, using in-house or third-party vendors to accomplish the rest. Services involved in creation of a new website include:
Friday, August 22, 2008
Affective interaction design
Throughout the process of interaction design, designers must be aware of key aspects in their designs that influence emotional responses in target users. The need for products to convey positive emotions and avoid negative ones is critical to product success. These aspects include positive, negative, motivational, learning, creative, social and persuasive influences to name a few. One method that can help convey such aspects is the use of expressive interfaces. In software, for example, the use of dynamic icons, animations and sound can help communicate a state of operation, creating a sense of interactivity and feedback. Interface aspects such as fonts, color pallet, and graphical layouts can also influence an interface's perceived effectiveness. Studies have shown that affective aspects can affect a user's perception of usability.
Emotional and pleasure theories exist to explain peoples responses to the use of interactive products. These includes Don Norman's emotional design model, Patrick Jordan's pleasure model, and McCarthy and Wright's Technology as Experience framework.
Emotional and pleasure theories exist to explain peoples responses to the use of interactive products. These includes Don Norman's emotional design model, Patrick Jordan's pleasure model, and McCarthy and Wright's Technology as Experience framework.
Interaction design
Interaction Design (IxD) is the discipline of defining the behavior of products and systems that a user can interact with. The practice typically centers around complex technology systems such as software, mobile devices, and other electronic devices. However, it can also apply to other types of products and services, and even organizations themselves. Interaction design defines the behavior (the "interaction") of an artifact or system in response to its users.
Certain basic principles of cognitive psychology provide grounding for interaction design. These include mental models, mapping, interface metaphors, and affordances. Many of these are laid out in Donald Norman's influential book The Design of Everyday Things. Academic research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) includes methods for describing and testing the usability of interacting with an interface, such as cognitive dimensions and the cognitive walkthrough.
Interaction designers are typically informed through iterative cycles of user research. They design with an emphasis on user goals and experience, and evaluate designs in terms of usability and affective influence
Certain basic principles of cognitive psychology provide grounding for interaction design. These include mental models, mapping, interface metaphors, and affordances. Many of these are laid out in Donald Norman's influential book The Design of Everyday Things. Academic research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) includes methods for describing and testing the usability of interacting with an interface, such as cognitive dimensions and the cognitive walkthrough.
Interaction designers are typically informed through iterative cycles of user research. They design with an emphasis on user goals and experience, and evaluate designs in terms of usability and affective influence
Standards in web development
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) maintains a set of open standards and guidelines which are generally considered best practices to follow when programming for the web. Often, web developers help contribute to these open standards and guidelines through their work on open source projects working to help enhance and debug web-based technologies.
However, because of the fairly low barrier to entry -- freely available development environments (web server environments and development languages), freely available tutorials and information on how to do web development -- novice web developers often do not adhere to the open standards and guidelines. Additionally, poorly designed or proprietary software tools that don't follow the open standards and guidelines create ad hoc and de facto standards which must be followed in order to "make things work". This was especially true during the "Browser Wars" of the 1990s. It is becoming less true as more and better tools enter the marketplace
However, because of the fairly low barrier to entry -- freely available development environments (web server environments and development languages), freely available tutorials and information on how to do web development -- novice web developers often do not adhere to the open standards and guidelines. Additionally, poorly designed or proprietary software tools that don't follow the open standards and guidelines create ad hoc and de facto standards which must be followed in order to "make things work". This was especially true during the "Browser Wars" of the 1990s. It is becoming less true as more and better tools enter the marketplace
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