Crystal Works: Web Development Studio

Weather you have a thoroughly crafted set of project specifications, or just an idea about your product's functionality, we can help you bring it to life. You don't even have to provide us with all the functional or technical details, because what really matters is that we perfectly understand your needs and vision. From this point forward we can take care of every aspect starting from project planning, to graphical design, the technological solution and final implementation.

Because your web site's appearance is among the first qualities noticed by your customers, we take extensive care of the development's graphical design aspect. If you can provide us with professionally designed mock-ups, we'll make sure the code we create resembles exactly your designer's concept during the integration phase, otherwise we can take care of this step, as well, and provide you with beautifully crafted concepts perfectly matching your project's goals.

We are obsessed with standards compliance. What this means is that we take extreme care of how we built the frontend code for your web site. It's not enough that the rendering looks just like the designer provided mock-ups, because they also have to be correctly written in order to ensure best browser compliance. We also struggle to write all our markup in a semantically correct way. For this reason all the XHTML we provide deals with content only, leaving the presentation to the CSS side, and providing you with light and meaningful code, easy to maintain and search engines friendly. Despite some others' opinions, we think table-based layouts and transparent GIFs are long gone now.

We don't provide just answers to your implementation needs, but advanced technical solutions. Best about this mission of ours is that this doesn't translate into increased costs, but on the contrary. Our history in web applications development has taken us through numerous languages, frameworks and coding practices and we learned to stick to and master the best out there. Another advantage is that all of them are free, open-source projects with active developer communities. This doesn't just help us provide you with the best results in the shortest amount of time possible with reasonable costs, but also help you find any additional support you may need in the future among the extensive professionals network. Weather you want a PHP5 application powered by the elegant symfony framework, or a Django web site taking the most out of Python language's power, we have all the know-how you need.

The days when rich interfaces were possible only for desktop applications or Flash and Java based websites, are pretty far away. Powerful JavaScript frameworks such as prototype.js, script.aculo.us and jQuery have become de-facto standards allowing unimaginable visual and interactive experience to web applications, in a mobile and platform independent way. Draggable products-based shopping carts, rich and interactive tables, natural navigation menus, slideshows and more, are made available to your customers via seamless integration with your application, while providing them with a pleasant and unique experience.

We know what any web application's performance bottlenecks might be. This allows us to consider optimization techniques at every step in the development process. Starting from reducing the client-side code size & resources, to implementing various caching techniques and optimizing database queries on the back-end, we make sure our applications perform best at every layer. We can even assist every step in your deployment to production process and make sure your web site can handle the bitter-sweet effects of being dugg or slashdotted.

We don't provide links building, keywords optimization or web marketing services, however we do provide you with all the means for obtaining high search engine rankings through the quality of our markup. By writing all our XHTML in a semantic, search engines friendly way, using descriptive URLs in our products and implementing several well-known and proven markup generation techniques, we provide your web site's content meaning to Google, Yahoo! or MSN.