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New Website Launch: Dupree Dance

By admin on January 15, 2013
This entry is filed under Interaria Portfolio - Featured Work, Web Design & Development and tagged Web Application, web design.

Dupree Dance conducts high caliber dance conventions and competitions in cities throughout the United States.

Interaria is excited to announce the launch of an extensive web application driven website for Dupree Dance, www.dupreedance.com, that features an online registration and check-out process for dance studios and dancers attending Dupree Dance’s dance conventions. Prior the new website, Dupree Dance had relied on paper based registration process that due to extensive data collection and variables required a lot of management and processing time. The new database driven online registration system, designed and developed by the Interaria web development team, provides a system for the Dupree Dance administrators to keep track of all data and run custom reports – ultimately making processing times faster.

The site features several custom web applications such as studio profile account creation, dance routines listings, loyalty program discount calculations, special teacher offers processing, total fees processing, and My Account functionalities.

The website’s database and web applications were coded with PHP/MySQL by Interaria’s web developers. The step-by-step registration process utilizes AJAX technology. The site’s identity and graphics were custom designed by the Interaria team. For more information about our web design and web application development services, please call 214-909-3900.

New Winds For Cross-Device Compatible Interactivity

By admin on September 13, 2012
This entry is filed under Adobe, Android, Apple, Google, Industry News, Mobile Media, Web Design & Development and tagged Animation, HTML5, web design, Web Development.

Mobile and tablet devices not supporting the Flash player plugin have contributed to the overall decline of development of interactive web animations during the past few years.

Up until very recently, Web designers and developers have had very limited options to create cross-device compatible interactivity, typically relying on AJAX based components. Today we are closing the gap as new emerging technology and web programs are opening doors for new types of ‘Flash free’ interactive ‘animations’.

Adobe has brought in two new software products to the market, Adobe Edge, and CreateJS Toolkit built for Adobe Flash Pro CS6, that both offer promising steps towards more quickly produced code based HTML5 interactivity. Google has also developed a program called Google Swiffy which will convert Flash animations to HTML5.

Adobe Edge, currently in beta/preview mode, uses CSS to draw objects, javascript to animate objects, and HTML div’s to place these objects on the page. This is an intriguing solution for making web pages more interactive but is visually somewhat limited due to CSS code not being able to render complex vector drawings such as hexagons.

Complex vector graphic animations can be created using Flash Pro CS6 which can then be exported as web friendly SVG’s (scalable vector graphics), and animated on HTML5 canvas using either the new built-in CreateJS Toolkit or by using the Google .swf to HTML5 conversion tool Swiffy.

Adobe’s CreateJS Toolkit allows a developer to export Flash animations to HTML5 format so where one can then program the further interactivity of the vector graphics with javascript. Google Swiffy on the other hand allows the developer to program the interactivity of scalable vector graphics in Flash, and then converts the rendered .swf file to HTML5.

With the new interactive tools available, there are now ways for web designers and web developers to increase cross-device compatible interactive creativity both economically and efficiently. A designer/developer can now put together an interactive experience where the exported code renders on all modern browsers and devices without the use of the Flash Player Plugin.

Contact Interaria at 214-909-3900 to discuss your company’s cross-platform compatible HTML5 animation needs.

New Website Launch: DQ Estimating

By admin on August 28, 2012
This entry is filed under Interaria Portfolio - Featured Work, Web Design & Development and tagged Content Management CMS, Content Publishing, web design, Web Development.

DQ Estimating is an Austin, Texas based development company of a professional estimating software system DQ2000.

Interaria’s web design and development team created a custom web identity design, layout and code for DQ Estimating. Our full solution includes a PHP/MYSQL content management system that allows fast and convenient web updates by the DQ Estimating staff. The website is at http://www.dqestimating.com

Scalability Design Maximizes Website’s Long-Term Usability

By admin on April 27, 2012
This entry is filed under Web Design & Development and tagged Content Management CMS, scalability design, usability design, web design, Web Development.Comments Off

Your website may have very different content and structure needs 12 months from now. Scalability design creates elegant solutions for new page, content, data and growth.

The website scalability design process approaches a website as a dynamic platform that accommodates and adjusts to new brand messaging, new content and revised navigation structures. While some decisions may need to made in the context of the website’s layout style, page layout styles, and integration of identity elements, the website’s content – and the navigation that controls it – at least in most parts should be regarded as fluid as possible.

Core to scalability design is a strong commitment to functionalism: the design’s positive attributes and identity should not pose significant compromises to the website’s usability, content growth, content reduction, and changes in the navigation structure.

Website Scalability Design increases the website’s usability by planning out…

design and code for new pages so that they can be seamlessly created and integrated to the site’s navigation structure
design and code for sub-menu designs that can be expanded without breaking any existing design or page layout
content structure design that can be expanded without breaking any existing design or page layout
design and code for AJAX animations that allow content increase and content deduction
design and code for online store management that allows catalog growth, new product categories, and cross-referencing new products
design and code for member activity management that takes into account a growing member base on the site and how an increased interaction displays and functions on the site
CMS code that allows managing new content types
CMS usability and user-flow design that functions optimally even if the amount go content and pages to be managed grows significantly
documenting any restrictions in content growth, such as number of allowed characters in dynamic form fields

Your website may have very different content and structure needs 12 months from now. Scalability planning and testing make sure that each website and web application can elegantly handle an increased number of web pages, increased text and digital content and increased data input by a growing number of site’s users.

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