| web services | home |

web application, flash animation, web design,
information architecture and streaming media.

Solid Dreams builds lasting relationships between clients and their customers by developing a total interactive experience. Through an in-depth analysis of our client's existing business goals, a survey of their brand, and an analysis of their customers' attitudes and beliefs, we design an interactive experience that establishes their company and gets the results they desire. Our unique client-focused design process ensures a superior level of customer participation and interaction while helping the project to develop on time and within budget.

No one was more excited about the advent of the web than the visionaries at Solid Dreams. They knew that the world of design would change forever and where it was changing most rapidly was where they would be, directing the shots.

WEB>We work collaboratively with clients developing the perfect strategy to bring their brands to life in the experience of their customers. Through back end and information architecture, navigation, design, testing, and launch, we stay close to your branding and business objectives. For your site, this means highly interactive and effective interfaces with tight HTML, JavaScript, and CGI coding. With the latest software for Quicktime conversions and streaming, Solid Dreams is also well equipped to offer a broadband experience in design, giving breadth, depth, sensibility, and space to your web site.

Flash>Macromedia's Flash is quickly becoming the standard design tool for animation and interaction on the web. Allowing innovative and complex ideas to break from the restrictions of HTML, the interactive capabilities of Flash bring a new sense of space and time to the traditionally static two-dimensional web. We offer Flash services from interactive mailers to integrated site design and navigation tools allowing clients to take advantage of this highly visual interactive form.

Research
In order to build a site that achieves goals, we must first work with you to clarify your goals and objectives, assess your audience needs, position your brand for the online environment and formulate technical requirements. In addition we ensure the project is on track by reporting on industry trends, examining competitor sites, conducting user testing if there is a current site and assessing current platforms and systems.

Analysis
After we have gathered all of the information needed during discovery, we review and analyze our findings in order to recommend the best site design strategy, including high-level site architecture, creative, branding, production and technical considerations and recommendations. These assessments and recommendations are delivered in a documented Strategic Brief foundation of the site.

Design
In this phase we work to establish the framework for the site from a functional, creative and technical perspective. This framework will serve as the roadmap for all design, technical and production efforts during the development phase.
During the design phase, BlackArt produces preliminary designs that specify all content, functionality, navigation and overall look/feel.

Development
This is when it all comes together. When documents are translated into actual live pages. All functionality is built and tested. All pages are designed and produced. During development process, you can watch the site come alive and grow. It's amazing to watch!

Testing
During the testing phase, our Quality Assurance department confirms that the site conforms to agreed-upon standards. BlackArt measures quality in two ways: 1) product reliability and 2) happy customers and/or clients. A site that has undergone a thorough QA test cycle will have fewer bugs, dead links, typos and errors than a site without appropriate QA.

Launch
This is not a phase, but it sure feels good to say. (Especially when you know that our Managed Services group is supporting all systems).

In a nutshell, we work with our sleeves rolled up, our minds open and our eyes on the ball.

put your
mark
on the
world

| web services | home |

© Copyright 1995 ~ 2020, Solid Dreams, all rights reserved. www.SolidDreams.co.uk