Web Production
Tipit offers custom web production services, allowing your website or software application to be built to your exact specifications. We are trained in agile programming to develop projects around a rough specification, employing an iterative development style.
Our costs vary based on the project details. Development fees range from $65 – $165 per hour depending on details, skills, urgent/after-hours and level of engagement.
DJANGO / Postgres SQL Server Solutions
Touted as “The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines” – this solution immediately stands out as one that is closely aligned with our development philosophy. Django is a very powerful and flexible web framework built around the DRY principal (Don’t Repeat Yourself) aimed at eliminating redundancy to attain the pentacle of efficiency in programming. We love Django for web-based applications or very customized content management tools. There are an endless number of Django and Python modules that can be leveraged when building solutions under this framework. In addition, the python language is aimed at rapid application development, thus minimizing time spent on each task – perfect for an agile development project.
LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
This open source environment was one of the original web programming environments and some of Tipit’s first sites back in 1996 utilized this architecture. Since its inception, it has only gotten better and better. Extraordinarily flexible in its approach, one can build out an extremely tight, efficient and snappy site. The software that drives this is completely free and has a huge community of developers. As such there is no lack for freely available software to kick off your project. If you are looking for the ultimate in flexibility and some serious staying power – this is the choice for you.
Wordpress as a Content Management System
Leveraging the LAMP architecture mentioned above, Wordpress started as a simple blogging tool, but has evolved into an extremely rich application with tons of freely available themes & plugins. One such plugin, flutter, helps turn Wordpress into an even more robust content management system. This allows you to preserve all the intuitive content creation tools bloggers have used for years, while extending the functionality to include advanced meta data and workflow changes to match your business’s unique content publishing needs. In fact, Wordpress is what drives this website. For any small or large business, Wordpress is an unbeatable solution for content publishing. It has the horsepower for some of the largest content publishing sites on the Internet. If you are in need of a great looking & functioning CMS for any need, you will not get more bang for your money than with a Wordpress solution.
Microsoft ASP.NET / SQL Server Solutions
ASP.NET is an excellent choice for your web site / web application. Utilizing all the best that object-oriented programming and pre-compiled code has to offer, ASP.NET applications are fast, robust and reliable. ASP.NET can scale from a basic web application to a full enterprise class solution. If you are looking to start simply and grow big, there is arguably no better platform to be on. Tipit started developing classic ASP sites in 1998 and migrated to dot net C# as soon as the first release candidates were emerging. Our experience with SQL Server goes back just as far.
Pure XHTML / CSS liquid layout, HTML5 & AJAX
Look Ma, no tables! That’s right, one of the corner stones of web design has gone the way of the CD – it’s all about CSS layout these days. Not only is it quick and easy to load, the pages are naturally search engine optimized. Since there is significantly less markup involved, the pages are easily scrapped and indexed by all search engines. As a wise man once said: tables are for tabular data. The web evolved so quickly it has taken this long to catch up and provide the proper tools to dictate the layout for the type of sophisticated user interface that today’s modern web surfer has come to expect.
In addition, the use of AJAX for quick call-backs to the server without refreshing the page creates an almost “desktop” app feel to your web pages. Combined with advanced HTML 5 techniques, fluid web pages with rich media can be deployed. Best of all, by staying away from plugins like Adobe Flash, the website is viewable on a multitude of devices – including the popular iPhone – and won’t slow down your users browsing experience.
Utilizing all these tools there is no shortage of possibilities!
