Elegant Design. Standards Compliance. Usability.

campfiresites.com builds clean, user-centric, standards-compliant websites that combine proven design patterns and cutting-edge technology with a focus on branding and identity. We achieve this result using several fundamental principals we have identified for effective web design:

Elegance

The mark of a good website is a clean, compelling, content-focused and identity-branded design. Providing an effective, cohesive web interface is crucial to the success of every company doing business on the web.

Usability

In addition to being attractive, an effective website must also be easy to use by its intended audience. For this reason, audience-analysis is an integral part of our design process. Your site’s visitors expect familiarity and versatility. We build sites that are easily navigated by novices and responsive to expert users.

Standards Compliance

In the past, web designers were forced to build several versions of the same site — one for each web browser and operating system. Today, thanks to the development and acceptance of web standards, we have consistent technologies with which to deploy and interpret web content.

The sites we build use these standards to your advantage by speeding up the design process, reducing bandwidth usage, and simplifying continued maintenance and development. This decreases overall costs while increasing your site’s potential audience and ease of use.

Accessibility

Using technologies that allow for the separation of content from presentation, it is possible to develop websites that adhere to accessibility guidelines, making websites we build available to the largest possible audience.

For more information, please contact us.

Open Standards. Cross Platform. Cross Discipline.

Automating the web is our specialty. We create custom database-driven web applications using open, industry standards. We code in languages like Java, PHP, and ColdFusion using databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server on UNIX, Linux, and Windows.

Cross Discipline

We specialize in developing applications using the following technologies:

• HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS
• PHP 4
• ColdFusion
• JavaScript & DHTML

Cross Database

All of our applications are built to work with any database that supports ANSI SQL, such as:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle
• Sybase
• Microsoft SQL Server

Cross Platform

We believe that every platform has its advantages. When we build applications, we tend to favor technologies that are cross-platform such as Java, PHP, and ColdFusion (which work equally well on Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms).

Our web deployment platforms of choice include:

• Apache, Apache Tomcat, JBoss
• Microsoft IIS
• Websphere

Upon requested, we can develop for the platform of your choice, using operating system-specific langugues.

For more information, please contact us.