Services
We have the skills and experience to take your website or application all the way from a great idea through to a live website. We can thoroughly research your audience and your organisation, handle the design and build, develop the functionality that keeps your users enganged, set up content management systems, and even handle hosting and maintenance.
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Requirements Scoping.
When we start work on a project, we
hold workshops with you to help us understand your organisation,
and how a website or application can deliver you value. We work
with you to understand what your organisation does, your point of
difference, your competitors, and where you're heading in the
future.
Understanding your audience's key needs, and the content and
tasks required to support your organisation's objectives, is the
first step to us understanding your requirements and ensuring both
your business goals and your user's needs are met.
An important first step in ensuring a projects success is defining a structure
for the content and information delivered by the site, and planning
for users to intuitively access content and interact with site
functionality.
Terabyte uses wireframes to identify key content elements and
base structure for each template, speeding up the design process by
establishing what content the user expects to see on a screen and
relative priorities before the full design is completed.
Interface Design.
Where traditional graphic design focuses on aesthetics and
visual look, Interface Design focuses on how a user interacts with
an object or application, and how to make that interaction as
simple and efficient as possible.
Interface design is a huge part of what Terabyte do, and we have
a wide range of experience in designing effective User Interfaces
across various mediums (such as websites, software applications,
and touchscreen
kiosks) that help our client's audiences to achieve their
goals.
Brand Design.
Not just a Web Design company, Terabyte has undertaken many
highly successful Brand and
Identity Design projects, for clients in Industries as diverse
as Network Engineering, Broadcasting, Interior Design, and
Winemaking.
From Logo and Typography design, through to stationery and
signage, and even broadcast design, we can do it all, and do it all
well.
Mobile Websites & Apps.
As more and more of our audience move to using the internet on
their mobiles businesses need to respond with appropriate content
and functionality to enable their users to connect with them when
out and about. Terabyte are providing mobile website
solutions that work on all smartphones, and share critical
content from our client's main websites in a format to suit the
mobile user.
The internet is a fast-changing place; rich content - such as
video, audio, and animation - and highly functional web
applications are now ubiquitous.
In the past we've built award winning online games, complex flash interactives,
clever javascript-enhanced interfaces, and audio/video
applications. We are constantly keeping track of what's
happening on the Internet, and put lots of time into research &
development and training.
Standards compliant HTML & CSS.
The backbone of every website, HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the technologies that render
your site in the browser.
Terabyte takes pride in producing high quality code, following
best practice and web
standards, making sure the markup in your site is as flexible and
interoperable as possible.
Development.
Development is where the beautiful, and beautifully coded,
interfaces we design are given the technical heft to ensure that
your objectives, and your users' requirements, are met.
We were the first company in New Zealand to build a content managed
website, and the first in the country to implement a site on
the Microsoft .NET platform (our development weapon of choice). We
have some of the finest, most capable nerds in the business, and
when experience counts - we have it.
Content Management System (CMS).
Almost all of the digital solutions we develop are fully
integrated with a Content Management System, allowing you to easily
update and modify your website content. We use the powerful
open-source Umbraco
CMS for web site development which is built on Microsoft's
ASP.NET platform.
We have also worked very closely with other development
providers to integrate diverse content management platforms into
our designs, including enterprise level solutions such Microsoft
SharePoint, Kentico and IBM's IWCCM.
Content Development & Management.
A website is only as good as the content that it delivers. CMS integration allows
quick and easy maintenance of content, but Terabyte can also help
with developing that content to have maximum impact.
We have a great deal of experience researching content, sourcing
appropriate imagery, and producing rich audio / visual content. We
know what works on
the web, and can help and advise you on how to deliver what your
audience wants.
Hosting.
Terabyte can provide fast, secure, and cost effective hosting of your site. Our servers are located in high quality data centres, with daily backups, statistics, and analytics all part of the service.
If your organisation has its own in-house hosting service, we are able to work closely with your IT team to ensure a smooth go-live, and make on-going maintenance easy.
SiteCare Service and Support.
Once a website is live it needs looking after. As your
organisation develops, adapts, changes so to will your content and
communication with your audiences.
And with SiteCare our team are right behind your website,
supporting you and the site 24/7 for a known and budgeted monthly
cost.
SiteCare includes:
- Automated website and server monitoring with alerts to our 24/7
call centre
- 24/7 on-call Terabyte support staff for Level 1 critical
issues
- A monthly allowance for ad-hoc changes and fixes