Services
Web Development
We make websites for clients that we would be proud to call our own, and treat each and every product as if it were ours. This means devotion to web standards, user experience, and quality. These may sound like bold words, but we believe our web development services have distinct value.
Our skill sets are varied and unique. We use XHTML & CSS to develop standards based content and presentation that shines in cutting-edge browsers while at the same time degrades for usability in older technologies. We are experts in programming PHP, Ruby on Rails, RSS, AJAX, javascript, and a variety of bleeding-edge technologies. More importantly however, we know how to choose the right tool for the job, and do not use excessive and unproven techniques. The designs we create exist to enhance content and the user experience. We use subtle modern styles to create sites that present content and community in a clear and concise fashion.
Redesigns
marginLeft has a proven track record for both original website development, as well as redesigns. Using standards based design and thoughtful information architecture we can develop an aesthetic and usable website that will increase traffic, boost conversion rates, and make future revisions cheaper and easier.
Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails is a cutting edge web development framework that allows us to quickly develop robust and fast enterprise class web applications. Interested in creating a Ruby on Rails Site? Stuck with a ruby site and need help extending it? Marginleft can help. We have worked extensively with both small and large RoR applications, developing custom apps as well as plugins for current popular applications such as the Radiant Content Management System.
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Mobile Development
The mobile internet is a new and powerful medium for reaching your customers. Mobile handset proliferation is expected to increase to over 3 billion subscribers worldwide by 2009, and web usage on mobile devices is steadily increasing. Accompanying that is the rapidly evolving technology for developing mobile websites and downloadable applications.
Apple iPhone Native Applications
The Apple iPhone is now the fastest and largest selling mobile phone in history, boasting over 10 Million subscribers. Apple's iPhone Application store provides a direct link to your customers, placing your product in the hands of every customer. To date, over 300 Million iPhone applications have been downloaded.
marginLeft can work with your company to build custom iPhone applications, or to supplement your existing application with an iPhone version.
Google Android
The Google Android open source operating system is poised to provide some fantastic opportunities for mobile development. With one phone already a market success, and more on the way, the Android platform provides a great deal more freedom for application development than the iphone. As with the iPhone, our team can assist your company in building and selling applications for this exciting new technology.
Blackberry
The Blackberry has been the industry standard smart phone for many years. With a target demographic of primarily business oriented customers, the blackberry provides an excellent platform for developing mobile extensions for your already successful software.
The Mobile Web
With the staggering increase in mobile browsing trends, more and more websites are going to be prepared for mobile users viewing their sites. With the small screens and cell phone form factor, few existing websites are easily navigable. Our team can provide your website with either the capacity to visually degrade for cell phone browsers, or to serve a custom mobile-phone version to the user's browser.
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Accessibility & Section 508
What Is Web Accessibility?
In a nutshell, web accessibility is the insurance that every person regardless of physical, cognitive, or technological disability can view the content of a website without hindrance. This means that a blind person using a screen-reader should have just as easy a time reading your blog or purchasing your t-shirts as your average mac-nerd using an iMac and firefox. From a technical standpoint this means developing strict standards based websites using intuitive designs and well-thought out content. It means thinking about your user from the first second.
Section 508
Accessibility is not just a usability issue, but is also a legal one. Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation act states that all federal and federally funded institutions must have electronic information equally accessible to all individuals regardless of disability. In recent years civil cases have been brought against not just federal institutions but private entities as well. A Section 508 compliant website will help ensure that your company is protected against lawsuits while at the same time providing 100% of your potential customers with a pleasant browsing experience.
What We Do
Our team has a great deal of experience working with educational and governmental institutions to provide fully accessible and legally compliant websites. If you have a website that you would like to see become accessible, or are concerned that this might be an issue, we can provide an accessibility consultation. By looking at not just the underlying code and structure of your site but the graphical usability and ease of navigation we can give you a clear estimate and plan on how to bring your site into compliance.
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Managed Hosting
We provide our clients reliable website hosting and webmaster services through either our data center or with one of our affiliate hosting companies. When taking on a project, we work with the client to determine what option best suites their website, skill-set, and budget.
Please contact us for more detailed information on our hosting costs and policies.
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E-Commerce
Our team has a great deal of experience building, running, and profiting from e-commerce websites. The landscape of e-commerce engines and software platforms has grown exponentially over the past few years. With so many options out there, it can be hard to find the right solution for your business. marginLeft works with you to find an solution that fits your budget and your business style. Whether your selling e-books or electronics, we can integrate a perfectly tailored e-commerce solution into your website.
This is a short list of some of the e-commerce engines we are experts in:
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Community Building
Social Networks are quickly becoming the dominant force on the web, and for good reason. The robust connectivity platform they offer allow like-minded individuals to meet, share ideas, and spread information. In the upcoming years the most successful web companies will be the ones that can take advantage of all the benefits that social networking has to offer, and are able to build a community around their product and service.
Our team can help your company establish a dominant viral marketing force through the use of social news sites, blogs, and the big social network names: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. By giving you the tools and setting your company down the right path, we can ensure that you will be able to easily communicate with your community of customers. Allowing you to quickly respond to feedback and create an open and positive culture with your stakeholders.
