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We also offer hourly and per page rates to certain clients. Special rates for charities and nonprofit organizations are also available.
Below are just some of the popular web packages we offer. If you have a complex idea for a site we are always more than happy to provide you with a binding estimate.
Great for that small business that is just getting started.
This is our most popular package. Perfect for developing your brand.
We create a custom shopping application within your website.
Our new client, the South City Group needed a website for Fire & Oak, which is a restaurant with 2 locations, one in Jersey City and one in Montvale NJ. They needed an improvement on their previous website, which while nice, was a flash prebuilt template. The previous designer did a great job filling in this template but like most flash only sites it was mostly style and not substance. Also the website which has ton of inbound links had a very poor search engine presence. This was most likely due to the fact that the site was 100 percent flash.
The client wanted a site that would be good looking but also have lots of information about the restaurants. They needed something more search engine friendly. They also needed something that could be updated quickly by a professional.
We sat down with the client and asked him to pick out a couple of competitor websites. We looked at these sites to get an idea of what pages we wanted on his website. The client also sent over a ton of photos that they had taken of the restaurant interior. They also had a lot of photos of their signature dishes. While interior photos always look good, the food photography they had was amazing really gives the restaurant website a professional look and feel.
The website content was to be HTML so that it would be easy to maintain and update. This would also guarantee superior search engine performance compared to the previous flash version. We made sure to design the website so that making changes to things such as the menu or other content would be very easy. The website also features at least 2 columns on each page so that there is plenty of room to tease upcoming events. We kept the navigation simple. Standard top navigation that is easy to use and straightforward. For pages containing menus and galleries we are utilizing a nifty category specific navigation to the left of the content. The result of all this is that the site is very easy to navigate, update and crawl.
From an application or programming standpoint the site is pretty simple. The flash banner at the top is custom made. We are pretty happy with it. The banner has a sliding menu with links to opentable.com and the photo gallery… The banner also takes input from the page calling it; telling the banner what xml file to use as instructions for choosing photos to display. This makes it easy for us to just edit the html calling the flash to change photos. It also features a custom preload algorithm to only load the "next" photo. We also built a custom simple ajax photo gallery for the site. We wanted something simple and light. A lot of the galleries available on the net have too many options. We built a simple image gallery with jquery and it is lightning fast. Its also xml driven, so again creating new ones or changing old galleries is a breeze.
In the future we would like to integrate some social media stuff somewhere on the site… Probably something like a twitter crawl. We might also build a Facebook wall application for the site. What I really want to do is place open table reservations from the site, but I cant seem to find an open table SDK….
You can see the finished product at www.fireandoak.com
As you can see the below screenshot of the old site showed a nice looking template with little to no useable information. On top of the basic design it was all flash so it did not do well in the search engines and was hard to update.
Our design still has a very nice flash element at the top of it but it has real pages of useful information. It has html text which search engines love (great from an seo standpoint). This template is very easy to update and its unique to the client :)
For java logging - we love LOG4jHere at Web Inspired we right a lot of java. We are not big fans of php (it scares us from a security standpoint). We substitute jsf for php. We feel jsf is superior because the pages are backed by object oriented java code. We use log4 j to handle our logging. We like log4j because it is very easy to set up, it's customizable and it just works. - read article ![]() |
Building a better facebook fan page!We all know that facebook has been a huge internet player as of late. More and more people are setting facebook as their home page, people i know that don't even use email are getting onto facebook. I was looking around for some interesting statistics about facebook and found the following. - read article ![]() |
Glassfish: Context is already activeI am running glassfish Edition 3.1 (build 43) on linux. I was getting an odd, Context is already active error when i would try and run an application that i had running on my windows install of glassfish. The application was built with netbeans 7.0.1. It was running flawlessly on windows/glassfish. I tried everything to get the app to load on linux.. The only solution i found was to remove the beans.xml file... - read article ![]() |
PROJECT OVERVIEW: NyNJLifeInsurance.comWe started with a design revolving around a 960 pixel wide page to ensure the site would look great on all screen resolutions. Working with our client we picked out a warm color scheme and some nice beach imagery. It was agreed that the look of the site should inspire feelings of family and conjure memories of the family summer vacation. We want our visitors to realize how important life insurance is to family. We used all the content that the client provided for the copy and created some awesome pie charts to show some of the interesting life insurance statistics that they had provided. We decided against flash because we wanted the site to perform on the apple mobile platforms (they still can't handle flash). - read article ![]() |