Web Development

 

Front End Web Development Services provided by SLC websit developers includes:

  • Responsive, Desktop, and Mobile-specific theme development
  • LESS and SASS based theming
  • jQuery UI development
  • jQuery Mobile development
  • Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility testing
  • User Experience Studies & Implementation

Back End Web Development Services including:

  • Implementation of custom content management dashboards and interfaces
  • Implementation of custom user roles and permissions
  • Integration of 3rd Party Services including, but not limited to:
    • Payment Processing and Shipping Service API calls
    • Comment Moderation Services such as Disqus
    • Social Media publishing and/or commenting integration
    • Social Sharing services such as ShareThis or AddThis
    • Location services such as Google Maps or OpenLayers
  • Scheduling and Prioritization Management of Cron jobs
  • Importing/syncing of feed managed content
  • Applying patches and core updates to modules, plugins, and CMS platforms
  • Backing up of databases and website files

One of the key components to any website build is Search Engine Optimization.  Whether a project’s scope is merely implementing some SEO suggestions to an existing build, or applying them to a fresh build, understanding SEO at its core is critical to making the site visible to and easily-indexed by search engines.

Among the SEO considerations I always bring up at the start of a project and during content deployment:

  • Site hierarchy- what are the deep navigation paths that the site will be built around?
  • Meta tags & attributes- have they been assigned for every page of the site? Is there a fallback for pages where there are no specific meta tags defined? Should site-administrators be able to readily edit meta data?
  • Have file naming conventions been established for Clean URLs and media/file assets?
  • Is there proper use of H1 and other heading tags in the page template/HTML structure?
  • Do graphics have proper alt tags associated with them?

For each platform I have worked with, I’ve honed templating hierarchies and data structures that allow for more efficient SEO modifications to meta data and DOM structures.

In tandem with SEO services, I also am familiar with helping site-owners understand, interpret, and analyze statistics provided by such common tools as:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google WebMaster Tools
  • Bing WebMaster Tools

I can help with keyword analyses, event tracking, user pathing, and more.