Blue State Digital’s web development team has built hundreds of powerful, user-friendly sites that engage audiences and drive measurable, meaningful results. Every site we build is deeply informed by the latest industry standards and our own internal best practices, which we’ve developed and refined over many years of doing this kind of work.
Because our developers are always included in project planning from the very beginning, they can help drive innovation and ensure that the system we build for you is aligned with all your strategic goals. We put an enormous priority on smooth action paths, elegant interactions, attractive presentation of content, and a good user experience throughout — including for the people on your staff who spend their days working within the site’s content management system.
Post-launch, we constantly test and optimize our sites to guarantee the best results possible. The best way to do this is to listen to the data. No matter how attractive your site is, if it loads slowly, users will go elsewhere. We’re constantly on the hunt to save fractions of seconds — brief windows of time that can have a huge impact on the effectiveness of your entire online program.
Our Approach
Whether we’re building and launching a rapid-response hub in 24 hours or developing a complicated client site over the course of many months, we can bend our various technologies to fit your needs. We utilize a wide range of different technologies depending on the tasks at hand, but most of our engagements run on a foundation of one or both of the following robust systems:
- ExpressionEngine, our preferred content management system. We love ExpressionEngine for a lot of reasons, but especially because it’s rock-solid reliable, extremely powerful, and highly configurable, allowing us to customize our installations to fit the detailed needs of every client. Visit the ExpressionEngine website »
- The BSD Tools, our proprietary software platform. No one has more experience with our powerful suite of tools than we do. Our tools can be seamlessly integrated with the rest of a site, ensuring that your signup forms, donation processing, and other action pages fit right in. Our team can harness every ounce of functionality in the BSD Tools. Learn more about the BSD Tools »
In addition to these foundational technologies, our developers also rely on the power of top-tier third-party platforms such as Disqus, for blog comments; Google, for site search; Flickr, for images; YouTube, for video; and Twitter, Facebook, and similar services for leveraging the power of social media. When there isn’t a third-party service doing what we want to do, we draft our front-end custom developers to solve the problem.
Many of our engagements involve only parts of this process. Contact us now to find out how our production team can build or refine your online engagement machine.