Introduction to Slickbyte Media
Slickbyte Media is a design company specializing in Internet, photography and other digital media. The goal of the company is to use knowlege of design trends and technologies to produce electronic media that is powerful and cutting edge as well as maintainable. This is achieved by keeping abreast of design trends and technologies to form design philosophies and methods that can be unique as well as structured.
Paying close attention to the history of digital media and influences from the hardware and software industry, it is possible to form methods for designing media that can be engaging right now and sustainable in the future.
There are many design philosophies that go into making a site engaging. It starts with designing a site from scratch rather than using "out of the box" templates. Although this can be considered a fast and perhaps a less expensive way to build a site, it greatly increases the chance a site will look like a thousand other sites out there.
Another way design is kept unique here at Slickbyte Media is is designing custom graphics rather than purchasing (or as I am sure some do)..."borrowing" from other sites. By creating custom graphics, such as the animated banner on this page, or the custom logo on the "Bevy of Hope" website. The use of custom graphics also allows for the design of other elements of the page such as borders and buttons that follow the theme of the site. This also relieves the client form any licensing or copywrite infringement issues.
There is another pitfall of using ready made scripts and templates. Quite often in an effort to make them universally customaizable there is an endless list of style tags, components and variables that can take time to sort through to make sometimes the simplest changes as well as add a lot of code that may or may not be used but can slow down the the page loading. This slow loading of pages can be the downfall of what could be an otherwise effective site.
One of the most important components of a site to keep it engaging is updated content. Whether it is a special interest site or commercial there is nothing that keeps a person coming back as much as the knowlege there is likely new material on it. This is where some custom design on what is known as the "back end" is important.
Here at Slickbyte Media we pay close attention to client's abilities to update content. If it is written content, images and photographs, product information and specials or availability, we design updating systems designed specifically with the client's type of content and methods of updating. This keeps sites current and dynamic as well as functional. Adding, updating or deleting content efficiently is paramount in keeping a site fresh and inviting and this is what we strive for.
For information on these and other services such as website hosting and domain name setup, graphic design or photographic services please go to the "contact" page from the above menu or click here to send an email to Slickbyte Media and Design.
