Internet Development:

>> Professional development for e-businesses

Your web site projects the image of your business on the Internet, so it is imperative that both its content and function are carefully designed. The Web Design Department will study your project in detail to ensure that your business is ideally situated on the web to obtain optimum results.

To accomplish this, we will complete a preliminary study of your business and its corresponding sector on the Internet. Using this information, we will be able to design a current and competitive site. The process involves seven stages of development:

• 1. Study of your products and services.
  
• 2. Study of your Internet competition.
  
• 3. Conception and planning of your web site.
  
• 4. Layout and design of your web site.
  
• 5. Creation of web tools and content manager.
  
• 6. Incorporation of multilingual software (when necessary).
  
• 7. Local and international positioning of your web site on the Internet.
  

>> Types of development

Many possibilities, many solutions

At Connecting Works we develop all types of web sites, each designed to meet the needs of the client and incorporating an accessible content manager that enables an easy and complete administraiton of the site.

We have created web sites for clients as varied as language academies, travel agencies, real estate developers, human resources agencies, restaurants, marketing firms, automobile dealerships, ...

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>> Technology

The best ideas combined with the lastest advances

In order to develop our projects we use the latest, most advanced technologies, both for programming and the creation of the databases and the design and layout of our web pages.

Of all of the technologies used for web development, we find that the free distribution Software or Open Source, PHP, perfectly compatible with databases MySQL or Postgree, using the Linux operating system for our servers Apache.

We also have Microsoft servers for the development of projects based on ASP technology, which has largely been replaced by the technologies aforementioned.

For the development of graphics, we have all of the necessary web design software, including the most recent web tools. We always try to design web pages in compliance with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the world's leading web organization, providing the specifications, guidelines and tools to assist the web in achieving its maximum potential.

The W3C has managed to prevent the fragementation of the World Wide Web. At Connecting Works we are always aware of its recommendations, which we observe so that our web projects will be compatible with all hardware and software variations used to access the Internet.

In addition to these considerations, we also incorporate in our projects current multimedia technologies such as Flash of Macromedia.

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>> Accessibility

Improve your position on the world wide web and increase your number of visitors

Why do I need my web page to be accessible? An accessible web page has many advantages for those who have mobility issues, or those who use web-ready devices (PDAs, mobile phones etc...) different from the navigators of many personal computers.

If your site is accessible, users with impaired vision can use a screen dictation device which synthesizes a voiced translation of your page's content. As long as it is validated in XHTML the content can be interpretated, regardless of the hardware used for its visualization (PDAs, mobile phones, WebTV, including those with slow connections, etc...). And thanks to the cascade style sheets (CSS), users with specific visual necessities can magnify or reduce the size of the text to suit their needs. The Internet SHOULD BE MAINTAINED a medium of communication and commerce ACCESSIBLE to ALL.

Another of the important benefits of having a standardized and accessible site is that search engines such as Google and Yahoo do not look for the style or design of your site, but rather that its content structurally coherent. A standardized and accessible web page allows an improvement in your web sites positioning and an increased number of visits.

At Connecting Works we consider accessibility an integral part of the design and creation of our web pages. To test the accessibility of your site, we use TAW, the abbreviation for test for accessbility to the web. This is an on-line tool used to analyse and provide information about the degree of accessibility of a given web site, developed by CTIC, (Technological Centre for Informationand Communication), a foundation supported by the Spanish branch of W3C, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The TAW is currently the tool for rating Internet accessibilty most employed in the Spanish language, making it the principal reference both in Spain and Latin America.

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>> How we do it

To reach your destination, you must first know the road ahead

Each project undergoes a detailed revision procedure that ensures the page's success:

• 1. Study and analysis of the client's necessities.
  
• 2. Stage of preproduction and functional analysis of the project.
  
• 3. Development and approval of preliminary schemes.
  
• 4. Development stage (creation of web tools and web control areas).
  
• 5. Testing stage.
  
• 6. Maintenance
  

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>> Content Manager

Administer your own site

All of our projects are delivered to the client complete with the systems necessary for them to manage and maintain their site without having specific programming knowledge.

All web sites have a Control Panel wherein the client can manage all the selections and content presented on their site:

• 1. Registration and user permission
  
• 2. Updates of banners and new web formats
  
• 3. Control
  
• 4. Modification of the database content
  
• 5.
  
• 6. Control panel for translators (for web sites with multilingual capacity)
  

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>> Tools

For each necessity there is a solution

The different necessities of our clients compels us to develop different tools to control more efficiently their web site:

• Email Marketing: special tool for the selective sending of emails.
  
• Content Manager: which permits the client to add or change 100% the content of their web site.
  
• Generation of Boletins: automatic sending of boletins.
  

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