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“We’re proud of our Firestorm Site. Your team was so easy to work with and our new site is easy to maintain and simple to use. Thanks for the great work!”
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What We Do
Web Site Design & Content Management
We put the tools in your hands to publish and edit content on your site - no more waiting for updates. More Info »
Ecommerce
Selling your products online doesn’t have to be hard. We have an Ecommerce package that’s perfect for you. More Info »
Enterprise Hosting
Our servers are equpped with Tier One connectivity under very tight control. No need to worry about the neighbors! Packages start under $15/month. More Info »
Mobile Web Sites
Deliver content directly to your consumers wherever they are. Our mobile websites are designed specifically for mobile phones and PDAs. More Info »
Internet Marketing
Hear hello more often! We help you discover where your audience is hanging out on the Interweb. Pakcages as low as $100/month. More Info »
Custom Web Apps
Firestorm Creative Studios knows what it takes to create meaningful and impacting brands. We create relevant and visually appealing brand solutions. More Info »
A Simpler Interweb
At Firestorm, we have one goal: make the web simple so you can get on with your business. So we’ve collected all of our talents into simple services groups enabling you to find exactly what you need and understand what you’re getting. Select one of the service groups above or click here to see a list of everything we do
Web Design & Development
Firestorm uses standards-based code when designing and building all of our websites. We always produce solutions with best practices in mind to ensure reliability and quality and our interfaces are crafted with usability and communication at their core. We are experts in the field of web design and development, and have over 30 years combined experience.
Some of the web design and development services we offer include:
- Web design & Development
- Mobile Website Design & Development
- Information architecture
- CMS development
- Standards-compliant XHTML / CSS
- Flash Development & integration
- Custom Web Applications and Tools
- E-commerce
Design
We produce stunning designs for our clients that get noticed – it’s kind of our thing. Powerful, engaging and emotion evoking design doesn’t have to be complicated – actually, if you think about it some of the simplest designs are the most beautiful and effective. Simple is hard sometimes. Taking a very complex idea or process and breaking it down into visually cohesive and identifiable pieces that convey the emotional tone, message and aesthetic you desire is no easy task; but hey it’s what gets us up in the morning. Well, that and coffee.
Some of the design services we offer are:
- Print (business cards, brochures, direct mail, business collateral)
- Advertising (billboard/environmental, magazine/periodical, banner advertisement)
- Product Packaging
- Branding/Identity (logos)
- Website Design
- Blog Design
- Email Newsletter Design
Blogging/Content Publishing
A good majority of Firestorm’s websites and blogs are running on ExpressionEngine or Wordpress; both are fanatically supported publishing systems with an incredible track records for stability, performance and flexibility. Think WordPress isn’t good enough for your site? You may be surprised to know that our site is built on WordPress! aYears of experience developing blogs and content managed websites on these platforms has made us experts; and we can say with confidence, that we are the best choice for your web development partner.
These incredibly robust publishing platforms feature dynamic content creation such as blogs, newsletters, forums, wiki’s, contact forms and much more. If you need a custom feature on your website or blog, it’s likely that Firestorm has already developed it or can easily create it.
Search Engine Optimization
Not to toot our proverbial horn, but we are SEO gurus. We are completely comfortable in getting our customers sites to the top of search engines and helping them stay there. We are huge proponents of, and hold to the “content is king” approach to SEO, and do most of our search engine optimization via simple, organic techniques. All of our sites are built with Google, Yahoo!, MSN and all of the other major search engines in mind to ensure that each of them index your site in the most efficient manner possible.
What differentiates Firestorm is our knowledge of the ways search engines work – we know what’s important, what’s not, and what will make your site rank as highly as possible.
Social marketing
Facebook. MySpace. YouTube. We are social and we know social networking and marketing;and Firestorm can help you to properly utilize their marketing power. Social media can be an integral part of your website content plan and lead generation strategy, as well as a means of fostering those relationships you’ve made already.
Flash
With Flash in your web arsenal, the possibilities are endless. It delivers rich, interactive applications that just wouldn’t be possible without it. Firestorm has very experienced Flash and ActionScript developers, and have created a wide range of Flash applications from simple dynamic sideshows to full blown applications and websites.
Online Advertising
We can help you develop your online advertising strategy as well and complete the copy and creative for your ads if you’d like; and Firestorm can be involved from concept to placement, or alternatively as a production house for agencies.
BackDraft™ Email Marketing
Firestorm gives you the tools to create and manage email marketing campaigns that reach your customers and engage them. Our email management, analytics and reporting tool called BackDraft™ provides a constant stream of relevant, useful feedback, which allow you to target your email campaigns for maximum results. Combined with our knowledge of the plethora of email clients and their quirks, as well as our years of experience designing email communications, Firestorm has the know-how to increase your subscriber counts and reduce those unwanted unsubscribes.
