The intrabest team began building corporate intranets/extranets in 1995 and while we became very specialized, we realized the best value to our clients was in mastering integrated communications – understanding how to use the Web in context of all the other communication mediums like radio, TV, print, and emerging social media.
We began to build our team based upon specialists in various areas of communication and with managers who can tie everything together to maximize a client’s investment and leverage it over any medium. This ensures that a client’s brand is maintained. Couple that with our unique business model and we can provide top talent at competitive rates.
Our philosophy
We view our clients as partners and we are successful only when they are successful. We strive to manage all projects efficiently to reduce waste so our client partners can minimize their investment while maximizing their return. We are fortunate to work with people we like both professionally and personally.
Web development qualifications
intrabest™ provides enterprise management solutions that empower organizations to automate their IT and align it to the needs of their business. We build content managed websites for organizations that desire to control their own websites and ecommerce catalogs. We work with clients of all sizes and in many markets, but we begin each project by articulating a short and long term web technology strategy.
Our key Web personnel have a combined experience of over 40 years in software and web development, user-interface design, and multimedia. The name intrabest comes from “intranet” and “best” practices.
intrabest™ is a DotNetNuke community sponsor and an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau. We are a registered Microsoft partner and small business specialist.
Our web development philosophy
Our web development philosophy is based on a few simple principles aimed at providing maximum value for our customers.
We believe in web accessibility and design with web standards
Accessibility is a broad term that essentially means websites should support multiple browsers, multiple platforms, and be friendly to those with disabilities who may be using devices like screen readers. Nothing is worse than a website that can only be viewed in Internet Explorer on Windows. This is dismissive to a large portion of your audience, especially as Internet Explorer loses ground to other web browsers everyday.
We design using World Wide Web Consortium standards and while it’s still not possible to have a website behave exactly the same way on every browser, we work to ensure that the user experience is as fluid as possible.
We are advocates of open source software
Open source software eliminates hefty licensing fees and allows the client to put more money into developing the website and messaging that meets their needs. While the open source software may be free, we sell our expertise in its customization, design, and development of effective content.
We do not employee proprietary content management systems
No matter how you “pitch it” proprietary content management systems “marry” a client to a vendor and make them unnecessarily vulnerable to other market forces. What if that vendor goes out of business or raises its rates astronomically?
The content managements systems we deploy are widely supported so our clients will always have hosting, maintenance, and development options.
We do not require exclusive hosting contracts
We also do not require our clients to host exclusively with us. We will work with our client’s preferred host but are careful to advise them when they may be exceeding a host’s capabilities.
We use the right designer for the job
We have web designers designing for the Web NOT print designers designing for the Web. Print and web are entirely different mediums. Designing for the web, especially a content management driven website, involves a different mindset and an understanding of the underlying code’s capabilities. Likewise great print designers know how to use a single page, different papers, inks, and varnishes as parts of their craft. That’s why we have specialists in each medium.
More information on project development approach
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