How We Build Your Website
① Start with a strategy
We align your pipeline, assets, and personnel with your goals to maximize ROI, resulting in a comprehensive strategy. Through system audits, user feedback, capacity assessments, and budget evaluations, we optimize resource allocation.
② Build a beautiful design
We craft custom, mobile-optimized websites that deliver a consistent and engaging user experience across all devices, ensuring your message resonates.
③ Develop with open standards
Futureproof your investment with open technologies. During development, we provide expert vendor research and technology evaluation to align the right solutions with your short- and long-term goals, including optimal combinations of web, database, CRM, and supporting technologies.
④ Migrate and integrate data
We streamline your transition to a new website by handling large content migrations seamlessly. Our automation tools ensure accurate content placement into new templates. We also integrate with numerous third-party software solutions, centralizing your workflows and enhancing service accessibility for your visitors.
⑤ Manage your content
Leverage modern open-source content management systems, such as WordPress and Drupal, for efficient content updates and visually appealing page layouts. We also build custom content management tools tailored to address specific client challenges, ensuring effortless management of text, images, and multimedia, and optimizing staff productivity.
⑥ Training and support
We ensure the long-term integrity of your investment through our comprehensive training and support services, including a robust maintenance infrastructure. This infrastructure features automated security update detection and a detailed deployment workflow, with thorough testing and validation, to deliver rapid and non-disruptive live site updates.
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 Support
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
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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.
Drupal
Venerable open-source CMS for managing large sites efficiently
WordPress
Popular blogging software with a large developer community
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
GTFS
De-facto standard for transit agencies to publish their services
OpenStreetMap
Crowd-sourced geo-database used as data source for countless maps
Cloudflare
Reliable content delivery network with a myriad of features
DigitalOcean
Highly flexible virtual private server provider
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
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
Maputnik
Open-source tool for developing map styles customized for our clients
SimplifyTransit
Publisher of real-time transit data to be consumed across a range of applications
Matomo
Extensible self-hosted web analytics platform
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
Docker
Container management for developing reproducible tech stacks
Megaphone.fm
Podcast production and management tool
EventBrite
Event and ticketing management platform
Granicus
Top-tier solution for public meeting management