The most challenging aspect of the functional build-out of a web site is the need to ensure that the site can be effectively managed and evolved. Digital Wave will work with your staff to develop templated approaches to development that not only fulfill the vision of the strategic architecture and design, but do so in a way that is easy to replicate, maintain and expand without undue reliance on third-party expertise.
Digital Wave provides the level of development support most applicable to your internal capabilities to help build out your site, using cascading style sheets, database integration, back-end tools, content management solutions, graphic templates, and other support to help you launch and maintain a reliable framework for your initiative.
Scope of Services
Prototyping and templating to translate the architecture and design strategies into a functional browser-based framework, using HTML, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, and PHP, among others
Database development and integration, implementation of the defined database schema in the selected database platform. Digital Wave has built applications on top of a variety of database engines, including MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL
Development of custom tools and applications, building out the application according to the approved architecture, employing principles of recursive quality assurance testing
Hosting assessment and planning, addressing all aspects such as existing platform commitments, internal resources/skills, sizing and expansion and guiding you through the process of selecting or migrating to the hosting platform best suited to your requirements and growth
Documentation and staff training, ensuring that your staff will have the knowledge and experience to take your site and/or applications and continue to support it long after Digital Wave has left the picture
Integration of third-party feeds, services and tools based on extensive experience with leading resources, including investor relations feeds, integration with online giving and gift management solutions, and integration of your existing databases and applications
Documentation, standards, template development and service support as needed to augment and supplement your internal resources
Start-up support including technical knowledge transfer, IT support, and content update services as needed to augment and supplement your internal resources
Post-development user discovery and testing to measure effectiveness against baseline standards and begin the process of further optimization
Implementation review and periodic monitoring to confirm the successful implementation of architecture and design protocol by your internal resources, help apply standards to emerging and evolving scope, and empower your staff with direction, protocol, and services to keep them on strategy