Website Development

Building your application

Consider having our development team work with you to plan, specify, research, build and launch a highly interactive new Web site for your company based on your changing needs. Let us be your consultant and we will help you get the Web site you want. We build full featured websites using the latest in web standards and technologies. Nu-Designs is a strong advocate of leveraging existing open source libraries such as the Drupal framework. We are proud to introduce the power of Drupal to our clients. Learn more about Drupal.

E-commerce solutions using Übercart

The Nu-Designs team is experienced with a number of eCommerce systems and have tailored many open-source systems to fit the varying needs of our clients. We have significant expertise in x-cart, Lite Commerce and OS Commerce and Übercart. However, all Websites with e-Commerce developed by our team is done using Drupal and Übercart. There are several ecommerce Drupal modules, but the most full featured is Übercart that automatically creates Search Engine friendly "clean" URL’s at the product level. The Übercart module is fully intergrated with the Drupal platform, meaning your store will intergrate with the rest of your web site and your customers never have to leave your site. Übercart can be used to sell shippable goods, e-products, recurring memberships, events, and enable complex interactions with Drupal through hundreds of various other ad-on modules such as multi-seller stores, discount coupons, affiliate programs, software license codes, or customizable goods.

Blogs, forums

Blogs (web logs) and Forums are great tools for you to post relavent content or to interact with a community of users on your Web site. We have installed and custom tailored software such as WordPress, MoveableType, PhpBB, which all have various functionality and features you might require. However, when we build a new website in Drupal, your Blog or Forum will be intregrated into your website — this means your posts will count as content within your site which is ultimately better for search engine placement. The Blog and Forum Modules are easily configured and easy for a site editor to use. The modules automatically produce friendly URL’s (vital for SEO) and work with various other modules such as user comments, ratings, and social network sharing.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

CMS is a content management tool that runs the gamut from a simple page-by-page text editor to a full site control system. We have developed and installed highly-customized content systems that manage pages, templates, style sheets, and images. Today all CMS’ we build are in the Drupal platform. Drupal is a full featured modular CMS that provides the stable foundation and the flexibility to grow with your online needs. Drupal offers a free open source library of functionality that is complemented with almost 5,000 modules. With a Drupal Website, you will be able to add content, edit existing content, create new pages, blog posts, images, video, or forms at anytime. It is almost as easy as sending an email.  It’s that simple.

Contact forms

Contact forms can take on many shapes and purposes. If your site is membership-based and you need a simple way for people to sign-up, consider a contact form as a quick way to collect a specific set of data from your site visitors. Do you have a brochure that you want to send to people interested in your products? Use a simple contact form and mail out that expensive glossy in exchange for your customer’s mailing address. Oh, and you can use a contact form like we do: to have visitors like you let us know how we can help. The team at Nu-Designs includes a standard contact form with a spam deterrent captcha in all Drupal-based websites we build. Let us know if you want something more unique! We can also install modules that allow you to create and customize your own forms for any other purpose.

Secure donation and payment forms

One step beyond the contact form approach is to consider putting your form on a secure server, enabling you to ask for donations, deposits, reservations, etc., by capturing credit card information securely on our server. You can log in securely to access your client data, clear authorizations, and use the capabilities of the Web to help your business or organization grow.

Custom applications

If you can envision it, we can build it for you. Our development team specializes in gathering detailed project requirements and feature-sets, development of visual wireframing and site walk-through screens, in advance of directing any programmer time in software development to be sure we are building the right system for you. We recognize that industry-wide a high percentage of software projects fail, and because there is always a project risk with any development effort. We are committed to following the latest industry standards to ensure your project’s success. We rely on the contributed knowledge base and technology from within the Drupal Community to help ensure your project will be a success.  By doing so we are never recreating the wheel.  This is the true benefit of working with Drupal.

Web hosting

Nu-Designs offers a complete range of services for hosting your business on the Internet. If you are looking for a complete software and hardware solution, we can provide advanced and reliable hardware at an exceptional value.

If your plans are to build a new Web site or expand your current online business we can offer everything from our own shared server environment with redundant backbone connectivity, amazingly fast network, advanced security features—or assist you in the process of identifying, sizing, acquiring and configuring dedicated servers—whatever it takes to fit your site’s growing needs. Learn more about our hosting.