Thoughts and Articles from Blend Interactive

Digital asset management solutions are on the rise. Learn more about how you can benefit from utilizing a DAM solution, and the steps needed for implementation.

Development

This is a deceptively simple step for what amounts to actually building the inner workings of the website. You need to examine site functionality, break it into manageable iterations, and plan how it all will come together.

Development

To take visual design and turn it into a fully functional (and responsive) web design is a mix of programming, math, and human interaction.

Design and Front-End

Unauthorized meddling in your content management system can lead to loss of reputation, loss of income, and even loss of actual assets. Enabling multi-factor authentication protects your site and makes sure only the right people can access it.

Development

In many projects, you will engage with a services firm to install, configure, and customize a CMS to deliver the website you need.

Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Project Management

A website needs to be deployed in a public environment to function correctly. You need to determine the technical, organizational, and financial parameters of this hosting.

Development

Selecting a content management system (CMS) is a combination of research and vendor engagement. You need to identify prospective systems, investigate their capabilities, engage with the vendors for demonstrations or questions, and finally distill and synthesize all that information and come to a decision.

Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

At this stage, you have enough information to draw up requirements for what you need in a content management system (CMS).

Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely  |  Umbraco

So, we need a new website? The easy question is, “Now what?” The harder question is, “How did we get here?” Gain buy-in on the reasons behind a new project, define the problem in a way that gains traction, and avoid some early red flags along the way.

Development

With knowledge of the content and how it’s organized, along with your organization’s marketing assets, you can visually plan the site from wireframes to fully rendered design.

Accessibility  |  Design and Front-End