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.
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
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
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
Granicus
Top-tier solution for public meeting management
Megaphone.fm
Podcast production and management tool
EventBrite
Event and ticketing management platform