What We Do

webdevelopment



web development


For more than a decade, Guidance has created significant, mission critical applications that lie at the heart of the client’s business. You want to:

  • Automate business processes
  • Collaborate internally and externally
  • Connect your internal systems to each other and to your customers, suppliers and partners
  • Get information to the people who need it
  • Manage large volumes of information
  • Understand your data

Guidance creates and deploys business solutions that leverage web technologies to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

services

Strategy

Your concept may still be a high-level business plan or sketched out on a couple of pages. When you bring your project to us, we will help you define it, create a roadmap for implementation, including phasing your requirements into manageable chunks. We will help you see what else you need to take care of to bring this off. We make your business vision our own, in order to make sure that you set off in the right direction.

Information Architecture

The success of your website and applications depends on intuitive user experiences. During our Information Architecture phase we define user profiles, survey the competition, uncover the required features and functionalities, create a logical architecture to support use flows and build wireframes to document layout and business rules.

Visual Design

Now you can focus on the actual look. Starting with the home pages and a couple of interior pages, we design a look for your site or application that is consistent with you brand, your audiences and your preferences. Through several rounds of revision, we hone your visuals to a refined approach that will do justice to your application. We also storyboard your flash or video components prior to development.

Technical Design

The Technical Design phase is the starting point for the documentation of Use Cases – understanding every action that a uses might take and in what sequence. This drives application development. In parallel, we design your physical infrastructure from the ground up – hardware, software, security model, applications, databases, integration considerations, configurations and customizations. On completion, you have an entire blueprint for your website/application.

Development

Now the build begins. Bringing together the visual and technical design, results in a completed application. This stage includes custom coding, integration, database build, import and data migrations. After thorough testing, we provide training and access to the application for you to conduct your own user acceptance testing and enter any content. Meanwhile, we prepare for launch.

Support Services

Whether in your data center, ours, or a third party’s, we can offer you support during launch and for ongoing hosting, monitoring, maintenance and enhancements. Further, we can continue to make recommendations on how to enhance your application and improve its usability and results.

Project Management

Whether you’re developing a website, eCommerce destination or business application, there’s a lot of detail. Our project managers support our team and yours in managing all that detail. Planning, budgeting, managing scope and changes, monitoring progress, status reports, communication combined with business and strategic advice, make our project management a major component of why we success for you.

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