How We Build Your Website

① Strategy

We help you audit your pipeline, assets, and personnel capacities against your goals to target your best return on investment. Using system audits, user feedback reviews, capacity assessments, and budget evaluations, we help you allocate resources aligned with your goals.

② Design

Our top-notch creative team crafts unique, smart logos and themes to best showcase your services and communicate your message. We design mobile-first, using templates that seamlessly adjust to different screen sizes appealing to users no matter the devices they use.

③ Development

Futureproof your investment using open technologies. We are leaders in vendor research and technology evaluation, helping you match the right combinations of technology to meet your short- and longer-term goals. Find the best fit combination of web, database, CRM, and supporting technologies to best support your mission.

④ Migration & Integration

We remove the headaches of large content migrations to new websites. Our automation tools are crafted to move content from the old website to the right templates on the new website. We integrate with many 3rd-party software to help centralize and streamline your work, and make your services available to visitors.

⑤ Content Management

Easy updates with beautiful page layouts using modern open-source content management systems including WordPress and Drupal. Save significant staff time with effortless tools for managing text, images, multimedia and more.

⑥ Training & Support

Maintain your investment for the long term. We provide a robust maintenance framework that detects reported security updates, and a comprehensive workflow to roll out updates for testing, and after review to the live site quickly without impacting visitors.


Things You'll Get

Responsive Design

Adaptive coding means no need for expensive iPhone/Android apps — and that your site looks great across mobile devices.

Retina Ready

High-density displays are not only beautiful, they are becoming the norm. We build websites that look great by default on Retina displays.

Simple Page Editing

Graphical editing, drag-and-drop menu, image handling, tagging, and more help to make life easy for your website team.

Publication Workflow

Publish drafts of content only when ready, use revision controls to compare past versions and to quickly correct publishing mistakes.

Web Accessibility

Providing proven Section 508 audits and compliance services trusted by government departments, universities, and federally funded nonprofits.

SEO & Analytics

Rank higher in search engines and measure your reach through optimized content, keyword, and meta-tag systems, Google Analytics, and AdWords campaigns.

Multilingual

Translate and publish your content to multiple languages with ease through a combination of translation networks and publication-management tools.

Multimedia

FivePaths offers award-winning video and interactive development combining text, images, video, and data to deliver your message powerfully.

Migrations

Free up your team to use data — not move it. Automatically migrate mountains of complex data from your legacy software to improved systems.

Cloud Hosting

Secure, on-demand access to all your hosting and content-administration tools through the browser, working with a wide range of hosting providers including Amazon, Rackspace, ServInt, and Electric Embers.

CRM Integration

Automatically collect and display important information online by combining your website with Salesforce CRM.

Social Media

Build your social media presence using popular services such as X, Facebook, Intstagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and others. Integrate your network with web and database systems - grow powerful networks fast


Examples of our work

See examples of our work here. Screenshots will scale according to your screen size.

 

www.sfmta.com
SFMTA Homepage on Desktop
www.caltrain.com
Caltrain homepage on desktop
www.climateone.org
ClimateOne homepage on desktop
www.sfport.com
SFPort homepage on desktop

Tools We Love

While we can work with almost any tech stack, we favor these. Over the past 20 years, they have served our clients’ needs in a variety of applications and scales.

 

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Drupal

Venerable open-source CMS for managing large sites efficiently

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WordPress

Popular blogging software with a large developer community

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Pantheon

Seasoned host with a variety of developer-friendly features

PHPStorm

Indispensable development environment for all our web projects

Salesforce

Industry-standard CRM with powerful extensibility features

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GTFS

De-facto standard for transit agencies to publish their services

OpenStreetMap

Crowd-sourced geo-database used as data source for countless maps

DigitalOcean

Highly flexible virtual private server provider

Cloudflare

Reliable content delivery network with a myriad of features

AWS

Highly flexible cloud services provider

YouTube

World's largest video hosting provider that can be embedded and integrated

Gitlab

Powerful self-hosted code version control software with workflow integration

QuickBooks

Online accounting tool with expressive and powerful API

Mailchimp

High-volume newsletter and bulk email sending service

Bootstrap

Ubiquitous and extensible styling framework that accelerates site design

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ArcGIS

Industry-standard GIS software

MapLibre

Highly performant open source map rendering library

Umo (NextBus)

Real-time transit data provider with powerful API

FontAwesome

Expressive library of icons for representing common tasks and objects

Swift.ly

Realtime transit data solution with expressive API

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Maputnik

Open-source tool for developing map styles customized for our clients

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SimplifyTransit

Publisher of real-time transit data to be consumed across a range of applications

Matomo

Extensible self-hosted web analytics platform

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Vimeo

Versatile video host that can be used to embed a library of content

PayPal

Global payment processor used to accept money on a variety of channels

Google Cloud

Popular cloud services solution with extensive integration

Stripe

Payment processor with flexible integrations

Acquia

Tightly integrated Drupal hosting solution

Granicus

Top-tier solution for public meeting management

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Megaphone.fm

Podcast production and management tool

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EventBrite

Event and ticketing management platform