WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

For most small businesses, the web is the fastest way to grow
and reach the next level. The internet levels the playing field -
you can present your product or service in the same professional,
effective way as Fortune 100 companies. Xpanxion has years of
experience in providing solutions - not just content - for small
businesses looking to achieve rapid growth.

CREATIVE DESIGN
A great web site begins with a concept - and professional creative
design is what sets a site apart from the others. Excellent creative
design can establish immediate rapport with web site visitors -
as the saying goes, you never get a second chance to make a
first impression.

Our team of creative designers spend many hours per site concept
to make sure we meet the needs of your business. We may provide 2, 3, or sometimes even 4 concepts for you to review before ever
entering a line of code.

TRANSFORMING A CONCEPT INTO REALITY
Xpanxion's experience in building web sites goes beyond a standard 4 or 5 page site. We take a design concept and bring it to life with interaction, database management, user-friendly online tools, and animated graphics.

We host our customer's web sites on our web servers to provide the ultimate in reliability and service. We manage email, content, databases, and security ourselves so you don't have to. We can provide a one-stop solution all the way from choosing a domain name to launching your brand new site.

UPGRADES
Whether Xpanxion designed your current web site or not, our team of experts can provide consultation and implementation of newer technologies that will take your current site to the next level. New technologies such as ASP.NET, AJAX, and Flash can provide interaction and animation in ways never before imagined. Please contact us to learn more.

SOME OF OUR TECHNOLOGIES:

ASP.NET
Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 offers a novel programming model and infrastructure that facilitates a powerful new class of applications. Developers can effortlessly access the advantage of these technologies, which consist of a managed Common Language Runtime environment, type safety, inheritance, and so on.

Web Forms permits us to build powerful forms-based Web pages. When building these pages, we can use Web Forms controls to create common UI elements and program them for common tasks. These controls permit us to rapidly build up a Web Form.

Web services enable the exchange of data in client-server or server-server scenarios, using standards like HTTP, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML messaging to move data across firewalls. XML provides meaning to data, and SOAP is the protocol that allows web services to communicate easily with one another. Web services are not tied to a particular component technology or object-calling convention. As a result, programs written in any language, using any component model, and running on any operating system can access Web services.

FLASH
With Adobe Flash, you can add life to static web pages by incorporating animation and sound without significantly increasing download time. Besides enhancing the look and feel of the site, you can use Flash to interface with other web technologies, such as JavaScript or server-side applications.

AJAX
The term Ajax is used to describe a set of technologies that allow browsers to provide users with a more natural browsing experience. Before Ajax, Web sites forced their users into the submit/wait/redisplay paradigm, where the users' actions were always synchronized with the server's "think time." Ajax provides the ability to communicate with the server asynchronously, thereby freeing the user experience from the request/response cycle. With Ajax, when a user clicks a button, you can use JavaScript and DHTML to immediately update the UI, and spawn an asynchronous request to the server to perform an update or query a database. When the request returns, you can then use JavaScript and CSS to update your UI accordingly without refreshing the entire page. Most importantly, users don't even know your code is communicating with the server: the Web site feels like it's instantly responding.

CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a smart way to add styling information to web pages.HTML was originally designed as a simple way of presenting information, with the aesthetics of a web page being far less important than the content (and largely being left up to the web browser). Of course, now that the web has become as popular as it has, the presentation of your content has become almost critical to a site’s success. This, among other things, was why CSS was brought in.