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All about Standards, Usability, and Aesthetics

In today's business environment, a website is a crucial component that lends visibility and credibility to businesses regardless of size or status.

A well designed website goes beyond exhibiting a company's style or character. Besides enhancing your corporate image, it allows for potential clients to know more about your company, gather information about your services, see product samples, and provide an effective communication channel.

Therefore, it is very important that your website be designed for accessibility, speed, and visual quality. These concepts drive Visualis' design principles.

We follow open standards to make websites W3C and CSS compliant, which allow us to create sites optimized for accessibility across all devices, including cellphones and assistive devices, with exceptional performance and without compromising on aesthetic impact.

W3C Global Web Standards

eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language

XHTML refers to the underlying code that renders a web page to your browser. XHTML allows us to create clean, well structured code that adheres to W3C standards. What this means to our clients is a consistent, fast, and reliable site that is at the same time search engine friendly.

Cascading Style Sheets

This is a method of building pages where the presentation code is kept separate from the content of the actual web page. Cascading style sheets are used to define how your page is going to be rendered or "stylized", It defines elements such as colors, fonts, and layout. By seperating this code from your content we keep your pages trim and bloat free, making search engines happy.

World Wide Web Consortium

This organization is the main entity responsible for establishing international standards for the World Wide Web. The consortium was established to ensure that vendors, programmers, and designers agree on a set of core principles and components that could be widely supported to ensure the quality of sites. Visualis Web Design strides to ensure that your web site is validated to the consortium's standards.

We design...

Informational Sites
The Web's most popular type of site, intended to provide corporate information, project a professional image, and showcase the company's products and services. We can build a site tailor made to suit your custom requirements and vision.
Content Management Systems
Our content management system allows you to directly update your site and quickly post new information without changing the look and feel of your site. This system allows your company to interact more directly with your clients and associates by allowing them to read the latest updates, post comments, and share documents.
Blogs
Blogs are more than just online journals- they're also a great way to keep clients, colleagues, or even family and friends up-to-date. Some practical uses may be to allow clients to keep track of a project's progress, create an online knowledge base for your employees or customers, post a newsletter, or even a personal journal for friends or relatives.
eCommerce
If you would like to have an online store, we can build a solution with a comprehensive feature set that includes secure processing of credit card and personal information. We can design a secure system that does not compromise on looks or speed.
Site Overhaul
Has your website become outdated? Is your business in 2009, but your site reflects 1999? We can overhaul your web presence while maintaining your image and vision.
Hosting
We have great hosting packages loaded with features to fit every budget.

A word about Flash

We avoid it like the plague.

Flash based sites, or sites laden with Flash objects, have become too prevalent on the net solely because of their entertainment value, adding nothing to site performance or contextual significance.

Your site has only about 10 seconds to effectively engage a user's attention and guide them towards the important content of your site. Therefore, pointless animated elements simply rob valuable time and annoy your visitors.

Here's further reasons why Flash-based sites are a bad idea:

  • Pages load much slower
  • Sites cannot be Search Engine optimized
  • Splash screens without content annoy users
  • A browser's stop button or Esc key do not stop animations
  • Navigation visited and unvisited link colors are not displayed
  • Intra-page search does not work
  • Printing Flash pages does not work
  • Bookmarking pages is nearly impossible
  • The browser's Back button and address bar are rendered useless
  • 90% of the time, they are just audio/visual nuisances
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