the raven group :: DESIGN & INTERACTIVE AGENCY for COMMUNICATION

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Epicurean Catering
Brass Bed of Denver
Dennis Lane Photography
JacobsChase Law Firm
Lawrence Covell: Clothing boutique
The Mercantile Square Lofts
Middle Creek at Vail
Raven Airlines
Spa Univesaire: Flash site with PHP/MYSQL proving database-driven content and client-accessible updating capabilities for all text photo admin by client for a top-class Aveda Spa.
Thomas White Foto: A Flash-based website with extraordinary administrative capabilities for Germany-based travel photographer Thomas White.

Our approach to creating the perfect website

creating a user experience
We are obsessive about the user experience on websites. Clear, clean, consistent architecture is the foundation to all sites, overleaid with good design. This is why you will hear company founder Dan harping on about the "information architecture" phase.

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web standards & accessibility
Our sites are designed to be accessible to as many users as reasonably possible, allowing for rapid changes in technology. We are working tirelessly to standardise code and make the web a better place to be. In geek-speak, we are focused on meaningful semantic mark-up, well-structured HTML, machine readable links and valid CSS with graceful degradation from user-enhancing javaScript to standard HTML.

search engine optimization (seo)
First, we have a 'white hat' approach to SEO: no sneaky tricks, no behind-the-scenes hacks. The way to achieve a great position in a search engine result is by producing and refining good, meaningful content, supported by standards-compliant code, and following up with approproate social marketing, map links and submissions to relevant directories.

open source technologies
We believe in open source technologies - no tying our clients to some proprietary code that a company may abandon. We create all of our sites with the best available technologies, and build to W3C web standards with clean HTML styled with CSS, although we do develop dynamic Flash applications using ActionScript 3 (AS3). Tables are only used for the original function - tabular data! We also build and integrate our e-commerce systems on top of Magento.

Epicurean Catering

Brass Bed of Denver

Dennis Lane Photography

JacobsChase Law Firm

Lawrence Covell: Clothing boutique

The Mercantile Square Lofts

Middle Creek at Vail

Raven Airlines

Spa Univesaire: Flash site with PHP/MYSQL proving database-driven content and client-accessible updating capabilities for all text photo admin by client for a top-class Aveda Spa.

Thomas White Foto: A Flash-based website with extraordinary administrative capabilities for Germany-based travel photographer Thomas White.