Web development is greater than html

Programming, Design, and Hosting

Few programming languages from the 80s made it unscathed past Y2K except HTML: a web page drawn in the 90s looks much the same now as it did then. On the contrary there are gigs of files that were backed up via SCSI on DAT tape using proprietary software that didn’t make the same successful transition into continued relevance. It’s obvious that open-source software, like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, will dominate application development in the near future by virtue of the simplicity of delivering content via a web browser.

It’s a beautiful thing that html can deliver content on any desktop, tablet or mobile with one responsive website. This simple idea allows you to develop the content once and modify it’s presentation to fit the device. So your customer arrives at your website to find it displays like a boss on their tablet or iPhone.

In the case of an existing website, responsive web development can mean the difference between creating a mobile app, or not.

greaterthanhtml accomplishes web development with open-source software including html5, css3, jQuery, Zope, and Plone. We have also developed with php-based WordPress and codeIgniter, but at the time of writing prefer Python for creating dynamic web applications.

As with every project, the first order of business is a design brief which greaterthanhtml prepares to outline the objectives, functionality, features, budget, and critical path.

Once the design brief is agreed, concepts are prepared for approval and production begins.

Typically a wireframe is developed which outlines the information architecture.

While it might be necessary to develop a stand-alone application, that is a bigger commitment than publishing a web page using a markup language like HTML. As technology advances an application advances with the technology. At some point on that timeline backward compatibility becomes an issue. There is nothing worse than an extinct program.

greaterthanhtml looks forward to hearing from you. You can contact us by phone at 780 722 8763 or email

Web design and development samples from the greaterthanhtml archives

Rogue Agent

Creative boutique offers design and publicity for independent musicians and bands.

rogueagent.ca is targeted at independent musicians looking to promote their recordings.

roguegent.ca offers branding, advertising, publicity and video development creative and production.

Indy band performance videos delivered using html5
Social networking presence

The Brand Asset Net

Brand consulting, design, and management.

The Brand Asset Net offers digital asset management using Zope/Plone.

Plone is a mature open-source project that enables web application development to support digital asset versioning, user-generated content, membership and strong security.

The Halcyon Core

The Halcyon Core is a metal duo currently performing in the Vancouver, B.C. area.

Audio and video files delivered using jPlayer by happyworm.com
html5 animation

Alberta Pharmacists

Public opinion campaign used newsprint and web in tandem to sway public support for Pharmacists in their government negotiations.

Responsive design accommodates screen aspect ratios from the BlackBerry to the Cinema Display
QR code in newspaper advertising campaign links to website
Family resemblance followed across media from print to electronic following a provided logo
News releases carry over from print to the website

aboriginalday.com

Pro-bono website to promote events planned for National Aboriginal Day.

The photography and graphics promote June 21. Some of the graphic design is a modification of the date in typographic form and symbolically with the delta-shaped arrangement of 3-d dots in a rows of 6, 2 and 1 dot.

aboriginalday.com

Pro-bono website to promote events planned for National Aboriginal Day.

Archive and user-submitted portraits of Canadian Aboriginal persons to communicate the idea that the disenfranchised Indians of Canada are human beings by focusing on their faces in order to illustrate their humanity.

Some of the portraits show happiness, other dignity and still others great sorrow.

Aboriginal Times

Plone portal and workflow programming for bi-monthly publication

Unfortunately, this portal was never deployed in the manner in which it was designed, for stringers to be able to submit articles to the publication from remote locations and have them developed wiki-style on the web.

The text of the articles once approved for publishing, would also be easy to use in the publication's camera-ready art which at the time was produced in Quark XPress.

Anderson’s Restaurants

Web brochure

Creeative Custom Woodworking

Web brochure.

e4edmonton

Webportal to promote economic development in Edmonton.

Why use html and css? Accessibility. User controlled experience. This site is displayed in the same size window with the type at various sizes. This is one of the main benefits of css, the user can control how the web page displays.

This user-based control of how the design plays is more important than having the type at a certain size or other design considerations that cripple a web user experience, for example when the text is too small for legibility, the window does not fit in the users' browser configuration, or the user has to scroll to get the message.

woodland.com

Web brochure.

Ten Platers

The Plone Content Management System allows greaterthanhmtl to program rich interactive websites that feature security, membership, user-created content, search, internationalization, integrated calendar, news and event, workflow and automated messaging for portal members.

tenplaters.com promotes a recording by Ten Platers, and features streaming mp3 files of the band’s latest record, “Agent Orange.” This allows users to hear the music but not save the files. Purchase is through Paypal and iTunes.

bernardcallebaut.net

e-commerce site for on-line chocolate store.