Salamander Interactive offers a wide array of services from website design, development and hosting to corporate identity products and other digital designs such as video production and Flash presentations.

Prices are not included as every project is unique and are dependent on the individual client's specifications and requirements. Please contact S.I. to discuss the possibilities.

• Assess:
  • Determining Expectations: What does the client need, what does the client want, what is the company's marketing strategy.
  • Defining Requirements: Once expectations have been assessed then the various product and service features can be discussed and actual requirements defined.
  • Factoring Budgets: All aspects have costs and most companies have budget limits so prioritizing of products and service features is important.
• Design:
  • Determine a Style: What look suits an adventure tourism company will not be the same as the look that defines an accountancy firm or a photographer, so one needs to create a style based on the particular business and how it translates on/between the internet and other mediums.
  • Conceptualize Interface: Break out the pencil and paper and try out some design and interface layouts to see what works best with the type of business and type of content.
  • Choose Elements: Fonts, colours, icons, shapes, pictures, graphics, titles, subtitles, slogans etc..
  • Storyboard: Rough layout of all of the pages involved in the project.
  • Create Templates: Usually performed in Photoshop, this is the first artwork the client sees. Once the template has been finalized the actual structure is created using the appropriate software and technology.
• Develop:
  • HTMLize: Turn those templates into pristine HTML code that behaves properly in multiple browsers and on various operating systems.
  • Backend Coding: Databasing, CGI scripting and developing all of those pages of unreadable computer code that makes the internet work, but thankfully normal people don't have to know about.
  • Formatting Content: Creating stylesheets, cropping photographs, stylizing data, re-working Word documents and building Flash animations are all part of the process of formatting the content.
• Maintain:
  • Clientside: If your business and budget warrant a database then an online administration will be provided so that content can be easily updated. Going into the HTML code is also feasible, but if you use Frontpage then caveat emptor, we can no longer guarantee the integrity of our work.
  • S.I.side: We will be happy to update your website, this can be done on a per need and per hour basis or a proper cost/time/task maintenance schedule can be arranged.

• Conceptualization
  Brainstorming, storyboarding, market analysis, understanding of the art and technology, determinging the clients expectations, requirements and budget are all part of the strategy for developing a successful website.
• Website Design and Development
  The reason we are here in the first place. S.I. offers high quality, handcrafted websites designed to make your online presence the best in its business category. Each website is unique and customized to meet the particular specifications (expectations, requirements and budget) of your business.
• Website Hosting
  S.I. offers website hosting at very reasonable rates on our fast, secure and technologically up-to-date server with ample bandwidth, hard drive storage and email limits. We invoice biannually and our services and fees can be tailored to meet your requirements.
• Flash Animation
  Flash introductions, animated product demos, animated navigation systems, animated banners and advertisements and other Flash content can greatly enhance a website when used appropriately. High-end websites created completely in Flash can also be very effective depending on the type of product, target audience and marketing objectives.
• Website Promotion
  Does anybody out there still use anything but Google (except maybe Sherlock on the Mac) to search the internet? This is your one-stop-shop for website promotion and most of its services are Free. But if you really want to spend some money on website promotion we can direct you to companies specializing in that. However, the key to search rankings is cross-linking, the more external websites that link to your website the higher your rankings will be, so either do something newsworthy or promote your website by trading links with every other website you can think of, especially your local teenage bloggers.
• Internet Consulting
  We have given away our trade secret in the above paragraph, but there are still other things to discuss, such as marketing strategies, technology options, strengths and weaknesses of website styles and designs, security, budgets and ... let us know if you have a question.
• Copy Writing
  After reading the text on this website how important do you think copy writing is? Formatting is very helpful but conciseness and clarity are the keys to making your website content as professional as possible.
• Video Production
  Storyboarding, production, post-production, editing, compressing, streaming and packaging. With bandwidth today, having a music video, an advertisement or a product demo is not only a feasible option for most websites, but can add a very enticing and persuasive element to a website. Afterall, everybody loves the information available on the internet but at heart we love even more the active passivity and visual action of television.
• Corporate Identity
  Business cards, letterhead, brochures, advertisements, posters and PDF's, it is important to maintain consistency and high quality in your business communication tools, therefore we are concerned with not just websites but the whole gamut of media products.