Web Site Design, Development and Hosting

m_playmakers-homepageWe offer a full suite of services for web design, development and hosting. Starting with our unique marketing-based approach to web development, we take a comprehensive look at your business goals and how your site can help you achieve them in combination with your existing marketing.

Then, we align those goals with the right mix of components, which can include e-commerce, data-driven and service-information sites.

Our blended approach of marketing, digital strategy, design and web development skills are unusual - we're not just techies, we're high-level marketers with the right savvy to help your business target your audience with precision, speak to them with the right message and craft a superior user experience for them on the web.

Because we're a design and marketing firm, we know design is the differentiator for me-too products and services across many industries, and all of our sites are designed to work with your entire corporate identity for maximum effectiveness.

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Six Levels of Site Design and Development
  1. full design development and maintenance (including any programming needed to achieve data-driven site goals)
  2. site design plus content formatting and templates, you do your own maintenance
  3. site design templates only, together with online content management, you place and format content, then maintain your own site
  4. Site design templates only
  5. CMS templates for Joomla CMS, Drupal CMS, you place and format content, then maintain your own site
  6. Web development consulting - you do the work, we design, train and support your efforts
 
Web Design & Web Hosting

Playmakers is a well-known local and regional running and fitness store that is THE destination for runners in the area. They sponsor nearly every major 5k and run events, high school and middle school track and cross country events, as well as serve as a hub for the most high profile charity run series in the region. They have several stores in a three-state area, one of these is the primary branded Playmakers in Okemos, MI. They came to Tria to help them revamp their web site, which was based in old technology and had layout and design challenges.

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Web Development Consulting

Do you have an in-house web team? Are you techically savvy? You may have the skillset or the staff to do much of your own web dev work. Choosing Tria Design for consulting on your web dev project you'll enjoy:

  • A comprehensive review of site structure from a marketing, externally-oriented approach
  • A review of best-practices technology solutions
  • Hands-on help with web site and off-line communications integration
  • Phone, e-mail and web-based training to show you how to use your selected technology - no matter what the platform, we know web dev solutions!
  • World-class graphic design solutions for web sites; custom web template development

Most web development consulting projects achieve a top-tier result for a low cost, because your team is doing the bulk of the work. Development consulting rates are hourly at $125/hr.
 
Content Management Solutions
Dreamweaver Web Publishing System

We use industry-standard for about a small portion of site development projects we undertake. Many clients already are familiar with this solution and wish to standardize with it. Smaller sites maintained by a handful of people are best for this solution.

Joomla Open Source CMS

Joomla is powerful open-source (free) software that enables clients to maintain and edit their sites via web browser. You can see a demo of Joomla, at our test site, by clicking here. Joomla is fully editabl: any feature or customization you require can be installed by us or customized by our programmers. From registration systems to e-commerce, from provider directories to job boards, Joomla extensions allow clients the ability to extend their site for a very reasonable development cost. Joomla stores your site's information in a PHP database, so templates (designs) can be changed quickly, without redoing the site! This includes the navigation buttons and links as well – something not found in 99% of the proprietary CMS solutions available in our area from other providers.

Drupal open source CMS

Another world-class robust CMS, Drupal has a different structure than Joomla, and fewer commercial extensions, but is easier to develop custom solutions for. 

WordPress

WordPress is a blogging platform that can serve as a CMS for clients who's business supports a blog-type format. It's especially good for smaller sites. With a base of more than 10,000 extensions, it offers an affordable path to CMS for many clients.

Simple CMS

Web-based CMS offers a step up into the CMS world. Not as robust as any of the previous CMS platforms, it is the most affordable, easiest-to-use but least extensible CMS option.