MarkWorks Services

Our staff and contractors can do pretty much anything you want to establish and/or improve a persuasive web presence. We are happy to advise on, source and provide the following:

  1. Design
    • site design and construction, including HTML, XHTML etc; database-driven and dynamically-generated pages
    • origination, sourcing, processing and optimization of web graphics
    • implementation of Flash, ShockWave, IPIX and similar image technologies
    • digital photography and brand (logo) origination; adaptation of print material to the web
    • streaming audio and video in a variety of formats
    • conversion of legacy file formats to files suitable for web publication (PDF, downloadable 'Office' files etc.)
  2. Content
    • origination of text and pages, including copyediting and proofing
    • training to maintain and upload your own new and edited content
    • database-driven sites; dynamically-generated content
    • translation and internationalization/localization of your material
  3. Technical
    • fully-managed hosting of all or part of your site; co-location; connectivity handling
    • server installation, customization and maintenance
    • server/site security (firewalls, Acceptable Use Policies, passwording etc.)
    • programming (CGI, Perl, Java, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL etc.)
    • online chat services, 'Bulletin Board'-style forums and news etc.
    • mailing lists (listservs), live event webcasting
  4. Analysis
    • visitor analysis; market research and site tuning in accordance with the way your site is actually being used
    • usability, testing and optimal site architecture
    • training, classes in HTML, the popular site-construction tools and usability engineering etc.
  5. Commercial
    • advice and services related to the law (copyright, intellectual property), e-commerce
    • effective meta-tagging and search engine submittals
    • site promotion (banner ads, placing etc.)
Experience has taught us that the most reliable, robust and flexible systems on which to build and run websites are Unix or Linux-based — and those leveraging Open Source tools. For that reason we don't recommend NT, asp and the like. Though, if needed, we can find subcontractors who work in these areas.

This is why most of our development is done on Apple systems using the latest versions of best-of-breed authoring tools and – in all cases – state of the art graphics utilities.

For the same reasons we have settled on only a handful of extremely reliable hosts who are ultra-conscious of the need for total security, for full site-integrity and for the safety of email, who are pro-active in dealing with SPAM (unsolicited commercial email) and viruses etc. Our chosen hosts guarantee (and in practice significantly exceed) 99.5% uptime.

As a MarkWorks client you can rest assured that your online presence is safe and secure, that our staff are up-to-date with current threats and that we are fully familiar with all the appropriate technology to counter them.