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SLS Design Productions

SLS Design specializes in deploying and/or customizing E-Commerce Solutions, Content Management Systems, Community Systems, Blog Solutions, Forum Solutions, Website Template Design, Banner Design and Open Source Script. We support and develop the following Open Source applications: Xoops, Joomla, OsCommerce, Wordpress, PHP-BB, Drupal, vTiger, Zen Cart, SugarCRM, Pommo and more.

The list below is a simple website development hierarchy and can be extended to include all client-side and server-side aspects. It is still important to remember that web development is generally split up into client-side coding covering aspects such as the layout and design, then server-side coding, which covers the website's functionality and back-end systems.

Client Side Coding

  • AJAX Provides new methods of using Javascript, PHP and other languages to improve the user experience.
  • Flash Adobe Flash Player is a ubiquitous client-side platform ready for RIAs. Flex 2 is also deployed to the Flash Player (version 9+)
  • Javascript formally called EMCAScript, Javascript is a ubiquitous client-side programming tool.
  • Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft's browser plugin that enables animation, vector graphics and high-definition video playback, programmed using XAML and .NET programming languages.

Server Side Coding

  • ASP (Microsoft proprietary)
  • ColdFusion (Adobe proprietary, formerly Macromedia)
  • CGI and/or Perl (open source)
  • PHP (open source)
  • Python, e.g. Django (web framework) (open source)
  • Ruby, e.g. Ruby on Rails (open source)
  • .NET (Microsoft proprietary)

Database Technology

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

We offer additional services to create aesthetic, functional websites including:

  • Graphic Design / Web Design
  • Information Architecture and Copyediting with web usability, accessibility and search engine optimization in mind
  • Project Management and Quality Assurance