Expert Craftsman in the Digital World
Get Started with a FREE Consultation! Click Here
Creative Design
Need a content management system? We'll build your website with WordPress, which makes editing your website as easy as editing a Word document. For more complex websites We'll spend a great deal of time crafting the backend experience so even non-technical users can easily manage it.
With many years WordPress experience, We know the right way to implement your desired features. W'll be your technical partner, not simply a coder. I'll provide hosting recommendations to ensure the best performance of your website.
We'll identify all the different ways you want to present content, and build templates to easily create those pages. Even complex landing pages will be easy for you to create and maintain.
Need some help learning your way around WordPress? Each website comes with training we provide as well as a course provided by Coursera or Udemy
Your website should work great on all devices. Responsive web design allows site elements to adjust for mobile and tablet, like rearranging content blocks and mobile-friendly menus.
Your website will only get better with every update to WordPress. We code with WordPress best practices and use high quality plugins, so there will be no issues when it's time to update.
When we take on a project we like to do things thoroughly - this means we follow a set of tasks to make things lovely.
Firstly we really get to know the concept. This means talking to you, asking you difficult questions and throwing out some ideas along the way.
Together we turn the brief into a story that allows us to get started on how the users will interact on the site. This stage includes creating a site map and a set of user journeys to support the next part of the process...
Depending on the project scope we might expand on what we learned during the planning. When we are clear on how things are going to work we can produce wireframes.
Wireframes are simply layouts of pages that show where things will be. They are not styled at this stage but exist to make a solid framework we can design within.
We usually stick to creating just three wireframes of the most important pages on a site but on larger sites we may create a fully working prototype.
Once this is all approved we can look at creating some concepts for you...
Next the design...we might hit the jackpot first time or we may require some iteration to get things just right.
We don't provide multiple concepts from the outset as we believe it dilutes ideas - we prefer to focus on what we feel is the right approach.
We try to make sure everything we design will scale down well to smaller screens like your tablet and phone. We'll make a plan about how your design responds to different screen sizes.
Once you are happy we can pull up our sleeves and get technical...
Here we turn our designs into something that works in the browser and begin to sprinkle some code to power everything.
This is also where we battle with browsers to ensure the site looks good across the board. In terms of testing we make sure to crush any bugs that may be lurking as we go - rather than waiting till the end of a project.
We'll also make sure that the site automatically knows what sort of device you're using and adjusts itself accordingly, to save you and your users from zooming in and out to see all your content.
A little information for the more technically minded (nerds) - we use Angular 4 and node.js to build most of our sites. We also use PHP, MySQL when necessary...the end result gets hosted on Linux servers running either Apache or Nginx web servers.
Whether you are thinking about starting a new business or you want to make changes to an existing one the thought of selling online can be tricky.
We have helped a bunch of clients move from traditional retail to online. We examine what motivates people to buy from you and tailor our work around this.
By working with differing businesses we have a lot of experience with reducing the admin tasks of online retail - our CMS. We are a SagePay partner and this is our preferred platform for payments but we have worked with many others so just ask.
Be warned truly successful e-commerce sites have a lot of time put into them by agency and client alike...so be prepared to work up a sweat.
There are lots of hosting options out there. Some options are even cheaper (you get what you pay for). Wouldn't it be nice to have to call only one person if/when something goes wrong? Mediaguild offers hosting services that you can count on.
We Provide
Founded in the summer of 2008, mediaguild is small web design & development studio based in Smyrna, GA USA. Over the last few years we've made a reputation for building websites and software that look great, function precisely and are easy-to-use. Our studio's goal is to deliver high quality software in the areas of web design, backend software, mobile and carefully crafted games. We're interested in exploring and finding the cutting edge of brave new ideas and emerging industry trends that help keep users engaged.
mediaguild is owned by its employees. We don't have outside investors, so we're free to make decisions based on the long-term interests of the company.
We pay our bills and fund new development with the revenue from our products, and we've been profitable since day one. Profits that aren't reinvested
are distributed to employees.
A key to keeping mediaguild sustainable is making sure the work environment is fantastic. We believe that the way to be most productive is to work
normal 40-hour weeks. We save the "the sky is falling" routine for when it is necessary.