Full Scale Web Site Development

Hoofprints Consulting is a full service web development agency, providing internet-related assistance to small businesses and non profit organizations. We can help you through the process of putting together a web site for the first time, or redeveloping your site to make your web presence more viable. Here are some of the steps involved in the development process:

1. Domain and web hosting server setup: Whether you are starting out and need assistance with selecting a hosting service, establishing or moving a domain name, or have any questions or concerns about web site hosting and domain name services, we can assist. We will speak to you in plain English about the entire process, and interface for you with all of the outside agencies controlling this part of your web presence.
2. Email and mailing lists configuration: We will assist you in setting up your email accounts both on your servers and on your staff’s computers, and can also help you select the right mailing list software for your needs.
3. Web design: We partner with some of the best designers in the DC area, and can offer you a variety of styles and price ranges to choose from. If you need to coordinate your web site's look with your print materials, these are the folks you want to work with.
4. Coding by web standards: When a serviceman visits your house, you want to make sure that he is performing his work according to a set of professional standards, some of which are set by the county in which you live and some of which are professionally mandated. We abide by the guidelines set forth by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the internationally recognized body for web standards. As we take the design and turn it into code that can be read by a browser, we not only perform regular code validations, but we put the code through a rigorous battery of tests across platforms (PC, Mac) and browsers (IE, Safari, Firefox, etc.).
5. Forms integration: One of the most common requests we get is to set up a form processor – whether to receive contact information, feedback from customers, event registrations, or product orders, forms are a key part of interactivity on the web. We can process form data into an email, a fax, a flat file (that can be imported into Excel), or a database.
6. Installation of third party software: Whether you want to install a blog, host a discussion forum or a bulletin board, accept online payments, or present an interactive calendar, we can implement these tools for you.
7. Database programming: There are several good databases that work well with web sites; our expertise is with MySQL (and PHP as the scripting language). Whether you need a multi-user password protected area of your site, a searchable database of publications, a members directory, or other functions well suited to non-static HTML pages, we can custom-code applications for you or adapt existing open source applications to your needs.
8. Web maintenance: When your site has been launched, and you need to keep it looking fresh, we can offer maintenance services, or train you on software to enable you to perform your own updates.