Front-end Development

The first stage of front-end development is to turn a design or set of designs into HTML and CSS. The majority of web developers will simply use a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver to put your site into HTML. This is little more difficult than using Microsoft Word and results in an unprofessional end product. Web sites that have been constructed in a WYSIWYG editor will suffer from all of the following:

Messy and bulky code, which is difficult to update and maintain
Pages will not be geared for search engine optimisation
Updates to the site will cause degradation to already low quality HTML
HTML will be inflexible and suffer from accessibility issues, reducing your target audience
Contain numerous coding errors, which can cause cross-browser incompatibility and confuse search engines, again reducing your target audience
Only makes use of a fraction of HTML and CSS

At MediaInti every single page is hand-coded using scaleable, semantic, keyword-rich HTML. This means:

Our code is clean & minimal, resulting in pages that are easy to manage and update
HTML is constructed in a way to best inform search engines what that page is about
HTML is scaleable, meaning any content can be changed to fit any requirements and the size of the site can be increased infinitely without degradation (for accessibility & gee wizz purposes)
HTML and CSS is provided free of errors and compatible with major web browsers
Web site will be compatible with all screen resolutions

Just to give you an idea, 1% would be a liberal estimate of the number of sites on the internet that have a solid HTML foundation. In our opinion HTML is the easiest part of making a web site. So if so many development companies can't get that right what else are they going to do half-heartedly?

Once your site has been meticulously put into HTML, the next stage is to add features and facilities to the user interface. This consists of constructing light effects, such as the menu at the top of this page and more advanced facilities like the quoting system or the portfolio.

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