Why choose us?
You don't need to. But you want to make sure that you are getting the best possible service for your money. The list below is the minimum of what we offer.
Front End Features
- Easy to use website interfaces
Easy to use website interfaces
As pretty as a web page must be, nothing is as important as making the page easy for the user to navigate. It wouldn't help things if there were a beautiful font and color scheme used on all the text if the user cannot tell in an instant which text is clickable. We keep the site very clean and understandable thereby making the browsing experience much more inviting.
Take a look at our sites that we have built and see how long it takes you to figure out where the menu is and what the most important feature in the site is. You should have no problem at all navigating the site. - Interactive fluid animations using jQuery
Interactive fluid animations using jQuery
Perhaps you like the way the links on this page jump out slowly when you scroll over them? Perhaps you like this custom dialog box? Perhaps you like neither. But fluid designs is part of what we offer with every website. Having a fluid design makes for a much more organised website and here is why.
Imagine you want a greeting to appear to the user but only after five seconds. A fluid design would wait until it is ready to gradually drop the greeting and then animate it into the page. A second scenario could be to imagine that you have too much information to display on one page and you want to hide the extra content and only display it when the user clicks read more. Well, many browsers have a read more option which when clicked displays the rest. But isn't it cool when the rest of the info gradually animates into existence instead of just appearing suddenly as if it forgot it was supposed to be there.
In summary fluid designs give a very professional look and feel to your site. (Visit our custom made Need An Eitzah for more fluid design examples.) - Friendly website links helping your site's SEO
Friendly website links helping your site's SEO
Having a friendly URL (webpage address) is vital for a website's success. A common scenario for a lot of websites nowadays(, especially ones that have dynamic content and need to point to a specific article ID in order to reference that article) use URLs that look something like this: www.example.com?article_id=2537 This however is unfriendly and terrible for search engine recognition. This is because Google (amongst others) ranks pages heavily based on their URL content. So a page that talks about hunting in Africa will not be given much weight for someone searching for the words 'Hunting In Africa' if the URL doesn't reflect that. True, Google realises that the topic is mentioned in your page, but how should Google know if the searcher is looking for a page that only mentions that topic? We rewrite the URL's to give Google something like this: www.example.com/articles/hunting-in-africa Now when someone searches on Google for 'Hunting In Africa', Google says "I know a page which is just about hunting in Africa, in fact it's URL shows that this is exactly what it is about, this page will definitely please this searcher". And so with our clever URL rewriting, your pages are highly more likely to appear in search results, something that every website strives for. - Each website comes with a beautiful design
Each website comes with a beautiful design
Having a beautiful design is one of the most important features for most sites. Most users tend to judge a business by the appearance of its website. Is it sleek, fast and professional giving off the impression of a company who knows what they are doing or is it that boring old school style and perhaps the user would be wiser to seek help elsewhere.
Our graphic designers are extremely skilled in digital graphics and highly creative. Check out the portfolio to get a glimpse of the creativity and ideas. - Premium graphics & maintainment of corporate identity
Premium graphics & maintainment of corporate identity
What is corporate identity? Its a fancy way saying that your company is themed. For example, if your website was built on a black and cream color, then you would want your Logo and your advertisments looking like that as well.
Of course, this goes beyond colors. When your advertisment conveys for example a happy bright look, then you need to make sure that your website and Logo do too. This ensures that customers remember your company when ever they see your theme. - Pages are cached [saved] and load very quickly
Pages are cached [saved] and load very quickly
Have you ever been on a popular site and it literally takes at least 10 seconds for all of the content and images to load? Unfortunately not enough developers have the technical skill to properly cache pages and images. Caching is the process of telling the user's browser to remember the content served up for next time. Say you had some large images that you did not plan on changing for at least a week. Wouldn't it be good if you could tell a users browser as follows: Do you mind keeping those images for later use so that when I tell you to go and fetch those images next time you will already have them and just display them from your own cache?
Example number two. Have you ever tried hitting 'back' from a link you just clicked on? A lot of the time the page has to requested again and is extremely frustrating for the user. Here at Pixeleague we cache as much as possible. Full pages, images and everything that could be saved by the user is taken advantage of and the results are startlingly clear. Our pages load very quick (the second time you browse). - Websites are built with security in mind
Websites are built with security in mind
Every site occasionally gets hacked. Period. But there are certain measures that can be taken to reduce the amount of times your site is hacked to almost zero and to minimise damage should it occur. Our programmers are security conscientious and spend a lot of time going through the code making sure there no security holes. - Perfection is our motto in design and usability
Perfection is our motto in design and usability
Oh, to be perfect. We wont claim perfection as it is indeed a big word. But you would be hard put trying to find a mistake on one of our websites. Our designers work hard to make sure there is nothing graphically wrong like too things overlapping by mistake, something all to common with some Web Designers. Our programmers too work hard to ensure that all the features work as expected and there are no redundant parts that are broken. - We compress our code in order to load pages faster
We compress our code in order to load pages faster
Every page is made up of several parts. There is the actual HTML and text that appears on every page, of course. But there are a myriad other things that get loaded in the background at the same time as the requested page. Browsers get informed what to go and fetch by commands in the HTML and promptly fetch many more pages that will help this page function well. Some of these things include style sheets, javascript and jquery. The affect of these requests on the browser are significantly large. Sites that have more then a couple of these take their time in loading since the browser has to go and fetch each one of them.
We condense all of our external code into very compressed code in order for the files to be small. Next, using our very own custom made software we append all of the appropriate content for each type into a single page to be loaded by the browser that now has only to fetch that one page. Right click on this page and check the source [view-source] and you will see only one CSS file and only one Javascript file. Then take a look at some other sites you know and see if can see the difference. - Less images yet still proper artwork for page loading
Less images yet still proper artwork for page loading
In short, for large sites that need to gain every second of loading time, we design the site with very few images so as to load the page immediately. Take a look at Need An Eitzah and see that there are very few images there. However we work extra hard to compensate the lack of images and ensure that the site is built with professional standards. - Clear site navigation throughout the site
Clear site navigation throughout the site
Site navigation exists on every site that has more then one page. It is a clear list of links that inform the user (and search engines) how to get around the site. Without it users wouldn't be able to browse around your site. We arrange for the site navigation to remain clear wherever a user is on the site and that the appropriate links that he would expect to see appear before him clearly. - Calls to the database without refreshing the page (AJAX)
Calls to the database without refreshing the page (AJAX)
What is AJAX? AJAX in short is the ability to perform database queries without refreshing the page. For example, say you had a registration form where people could sign up to a feature you offer on your site. The user would then have to fill in a username text field. Then upon submission the user's application might be refused because the username had already been taken.
What we do is as soon as the user finishes typing in his requested username, even before he clicks submit we query the database asking if that username exists already and if it does we display an error immediately. The happy user can then choose another username without submitting the form making the browsing experience altogether much easier.
Back End Features
- Adding more content on your site is a built in feature (CMS)
Adding more content on your site is a built in feature (CMS)
What is a CMS (Content Management System)? A CMS is an in-built application that allows the administrator of a site to perform actions on the site. For example say you had a website where you displayed peoples testimonials of just how great your service is. You then told your web designer to upload them to the Internet. What happens when you want to add some more testimonials to the HTML. Going to the web designer and getting him to edit the HTML is costly and bothersome.
A CMS would offer the logged in admin of a site the option of adding testimonials automatically online, the whole thing taking about 10 seconds. This is incomparably superior to manually updating it every time. - Upgrade your existing website to convert it into a CMS
Upgrade your existing website to convert it into a CMS
Stuck with a website that needs sprucing up? Perhaps you want to change your static site into a CMS where you can edit and add things online to it? We offer upgrade services to almost any existing website. - Automatic email forwarding and management set up for you
Automatic email forwarding and management set up for you
Email has always seemed very easy, hasn't it. You sign up for Gmail and you are up and running. But having a business email address at your website is not at all easy to set up. One thing in particular you might want to avoid is actually using a live email address on your web server just in case you ever switch servers. You wouldn't want to lose all that data just because you or your developer switched servers? We offer full email management utilising complicated features such as Email Forwarding and False Email Addresses to safely create a backed up professional looking email address. - Site maintenance for any problems that come up
Site maintenance for any problems that come up
Every site has its problems that come up. Sometimes the owner wants some tweaks to the interface and sometimes an error occurs. We offer a service to check your site every day to make sure it is up and running and to service it as when needed. - Full site backups (as needed) in case of emergency
Full site backups (as needed) in case of emergency
Backups are essential for any digital data and a website is no exception. Unfortunately there are many hackers out there looking to take down other peoples sites. A person can also make a mistake and change something and wish to revert back to an earlier of a website. We backup when ever necessary and ensure (to the best of our ability) that all of your data is extremely secure. - Skilled at getting websites to succeed on Google (SEO)
Skilled at getting websites to succeed on Google (SEO)
There is no hiding it. We are proud display our skills at ranking high in Google Search Results. Although you might fool yourself and say that Google is not the only search engine, we all know the truth. Google is now the home-page of the Internet. So scoring well on Google is essential to your SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).
Now, why don't you go over to Google and search for the term Need An Eitzah, a website we built with our own custom software? Notice the way Google expands the site into many links making it easy for users to find what they are looking for before they even click on your site. Needless to say, Google only does this with websites that they consider well built and easy for Google to understand. So if you are looking to shine on the Web, you have come to the right place. - We take care of hosting your site and keeping it live
We take care of hosting your site and keeping it live
Someone needs to host all your files and images for your site. We take care of all the hosting so that you should never have to even look at the ugly mess that hosting environments entail. - Accept credit cards and such using an E-commerce store
Accept credit cards and such using an E-commerce store
E-commerce is the temr used to perform financial transactions on the internet. We speacilase in bulding online stores capable of displaying thousands of items. We can also setup these stores to accept Credit Cards during Checkout and all other E-commerce needs. - SSL certificates for sites that to send secure data
SSL certificates for sites that to send secure data
An SSL certificate is a certificate that browser recognise as a true website and not an impersonation. The SSL certificate is used in a secure request which encrypts all the data before being sent over the Internet. These are needed to accept Credit Cards on your site (if you don't want your users to pay on a separate page) and can also be used to secure private data transfer. - Google Analytics set up to review all of your site traffic
Google Analytics set up to review all of your site traffic
Google Analytics is a free application offered by Google for webmasters to take a look at how their site is fairing. It is extremely powerful and can be really useful in showing what about your site makes it successful and what not. We offer Google Analytics already set up for you so that you can just login and see all the information for yourself. We can also instruct you as how to get the most from it. - Customer support offered by email and phone
Customer support offered by email and phone
Everyone needs help sometimes and no doubt you will too. We offer both email and phone support and in case of emergencies are available at almost any time. Rest assured that you are in safe hands should anything go wrong. - 21 days grace period after completion for tweaks to the site
21 days grace period after completion for tweaks to the site
After a site is complete there are always small changes that the client would like. We offer a 21 days free grace period to make small tweaks to the site after completion. - Easy to read professional code useful for switching developers
Easy to read professional code useful for switching developers
There are many ways to program a website just like there many ways to cook an egg. But coding to Standards ensures that should the client want to take his website elsewhere, another Standard complying programmer could easily read and change the old code. We use Object Oriented Programming which makes for updating code a piece of cake. - Advice with payment gateways & merchant accounts
Advice with payment gateways & merchant accounts
Before you can accept Credit Cards on your online store, you need to have a payment gateway and a merchant account. The payment gateway will take money out of your prospective customers and place it into your merchant account until it is released into your business account. We will advise you of the best option for your particular case and explain the application process if needed.
