WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

We specialize in building sustainable websites focused on helping nonprofit organizations and small businesses build a stronger and more inclusive community around their work.

Today, building a dynamic website that is visually compelling and well organized is only half the challenge. The other half is insuring that the content is frequently updated and properly distributed. It is our experience that most small businesses and nonprofits, despite often limited resources, can find a way to produce great content. Keeping it up-to-date on their website and advertising it through the proper channels is typically where barriers are encountered. Maybe someone used to know HTML or Dreamweaver at the organization and has since moved on, maybe the website was originally built by a contractor that has disappeared or is too expensive to call for updates, or maybe the website is a complete mystery and nobody even knows where to start in regards to adding or updating content. Whatever the cause, websites that are rarely updated tend to get lost in the dusty attic of the internet.

In the past, it required a large budget to build the complex systems that make updating and managing content on a website as easy as editing a document in Microsoft Word. Today, almost no budget is too small. The key is in not reinventing the wheel, but instead building off of the work of the thousands of like-minded programmers and designers around the world who, like us, would rather focus on installing, customizing and adding on to existing solutions rather than wasting time writing our own from scratch. This is the philosophy of open source software, and the idea behind Drupal. Drupal is what's called a CMS or content management system. It's basically a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website, removing the previously discussed barriers. You can read more about it by clicking here. By integrating Drupal into the websites we develop, we are able to keep our costs affordable while also providing an incredible final product that insures organizations make the most out of their online presence.