- Strategic planning
- Information architecture
- User needs assessment
- Web design
- Project management
- Internet & intranet site development
- Web application development
- Programming and database development
- Web 2.0 service planning
- Content development
- Multimedia, video & audio
- Research & environmental scans
- Search engine optimization & Internet marketing
- Taxonomies, controlled vocabularies
- Library & metadata services
- Human resources & procurement
- Policy & governance
- HTML conversion
- CLF 2.0 implementation
Web design
XIST has a long history designing intelligent user interfaces to web based information. Our design services include graphic design of navigation, banners, buttons, logos, fonts, colour palettes, and other page elements; content layout; Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and adaptation of storyboards to practical templates for web publishing.
Ottawabookkeeping Web Site Development
Project: XIST developed a new web site for an accounting and bookkeeping company. The site has been tremendously successful in generating leads and expanding sales. Services included:
- information architecture design
- CSS controlled user interface design
- content development
- search engine optimization, and
- online marketing
Levator Web Site Development
Project: XIST redesigned a web site for a Canadian builder of world-class rowing shells and single racing sculls. The project included a broad range of integrated services:
- online marketing strategy design
- application development and content management system design
- content development
- user interface design
- multimedia podcast development
- search engine optimization
Web Site Development - Natural Resources Canada
Project: XIST provided a broad range of Internet development skills related to graphic design, HTML development, and JavaScript programming of web page templates for several of the Natural Resources Canada web and Intranet sites, including the Issues and Topics Natural Hazards site, Earth Sciences Sector, and the International Projects site, among others.
Dspace Customization
Project: XIST configured the open source software, DSpace (http://dspace.org), for a university library that required an institutional digital repository.
This open source digital repository solution was customized for the libraries’ purposes, including developing a graphical user interface to reflect the look and feel of the library’s web site UI.
