We’ve worked on so many projects and have had so much fun through the years. It’s overwhelming to have an endless portfolio, but there are also cases where old examples are good to reference. As you explore Nevis Technology Services, take a look at the below examples, our new portfolio items, and our services overview for more information. Let’s get started!
One of our clients, magician Joshua Lozoff, was recently on a local television show, My Carolina Today, to perform an illusion. We love seeing our clients being successful and seeing a website we created shown on TV.
Anybody can create a website, so what can be so difficult about it? Although it’s true that anyone can create a website, and even for free sometimes, the difficulties come into view when you start wanting things that the free website builder can’t produce. Free (and cheap) website builders also have other issues when you become more particular with what you want; some don’t allow you to use a custom domain without paying (or at all), and quality of the theme is what you’d expect – the quality of a free product, which is just sufficient.
A custom or semi-custom website has endless possibilities, but with those endless possibilities come a lot of questions to answer. From where to host your domain and hosting, to server configuration, the content management system, website features and more. Don’t forget the ad campaigns and Analytics review to optimize your website once it’s live.
Here are a few things to think about when having your website built:
Content Management System (CMS)
When you create a website, you don’t necessarily have to use a CMS, but as the site gets larger and you want to be able to edit it easily, it’s a smart idea to think about this. A solid choice for a CMS is WordPress. Each CMS has a different method of implementing its features, so once you’ve decided, you’ll want to think about design.
Database
Most sites use a MySQL database, but if you’re into big data or wanting to create an admin tool using new technologies, MongoDB might be a good option. Nevis Technology has experience with MySQL, MSSQL and MongoDB databases, from setting them up to administration.
Design
You can find free templates, but the quality imperfections and lack of features may be an issue for you. There are many websites that sell themes, either static HTML or WordPress themes (or any other CMS-based themes) for reasonable prices, typically from $10-$80. Modifying these purchased themes are a great option for a low budget. If you want to implement a fully custom design, you need to basically design it 3 times for mobile, tablet and desktop. Nevis Technology can implement your theme, whether it’s modifying a purchased theme to fit your needs or develop something fully custom with a nice custom administrative back end to match.
Domain
If you don’t currently have a domain, you’ll want to see if the domain you want it available and find a domain registrar to buy it from. Nevis Technology recommends GoDaddy (we are not affiliated with them, we just prefer them due to ease of use), they are affordable and they typically have coupon codes you can use. Nevis Technology can walk you through the process of setting up an account and buying the domain, then configure the domain to point to the hosting provider.
Hosting
There are some cheap solutions out there, but you get what you pay for. Shared hosting is the cheapest option and you’ll see it advertised for extremely low monthly prices, but you may have intermittent speed issues due to the traffic other websites on the server that you’re sharing are experiencing. You also don’t have any control over the server configuration with shared hosting to optimize the speed. Nevis Technology uses Virtual Private Servers (VPS) which shares the resources of a server with others, but it’s vastly different from shared hosting. You have total control over what you do on your server, you’re virtually separated from others, and you’re guaranteed those resources (processing speed and RAM). Cloud technologies take VPS to another level by replicating your site across multiple servers for excellent uptime guarantees. If you choose to host with Nevis Technology, we also do backups of your website and daily backups of your database.
Server Configuration
This is a little technical, but if you find yourself in the situation where you have to configure your server, such as when you purchase a VPS (see Hosting, above), you have to decide to use Apache, Nginx, or some other web server. There are also other packages you’d want to install and configurations you may want to update. If you want to get really fancy and have some instant notifications pop up for users on your site by using NodeJS and websockets, that’s something you’d have to think about too. If you choose to host with Nevis Technology, we configure your server and monitor for potential issues as well as provide support.
There’s a lot to think about whether you’re new to creating a website and just have an idea in your mind or you’re looking to redesign your site. When you work with Nevis Technology, we take care of all of these decisions after hearing what you’d like your site to do. In most cases we use the same proven in-house workflow, but we can adapt to your needs as well.
@TJNevis We’ve released an article with most awesome Udemy courses. You’ve been included into this compilation: https://t.co/dUyrrAzka0
— TemplateMonster (@templatemonster) August 31, 2016
Today we received a Tweet and email from the Nevis Technology site saying that the Hosting WordPress Sites course has been featured in a lineup on the Template Monster site! This is exciting and flattering!
Learning how to set up websites via the command line is not difficult. With some techniques, which you learn in the course, you can become a pro setting up VPSes for yourself and/or your clients. The course also discusses automation, an extremely powerful way to do things. You’ll set up automated daily backups and best of all, included in the course, is a script that automates everything you’ve learned in the course, to set up your WordPress sites for you. Once you’ve learned the techniques and the reasoning behind what you’re doing, why not automate it? But if things go wrong, you’ll be able to diagnose and fix the problem.
Check out the Hosting WordPress Sites course today!
Excited to be guest posting on Divshot about using Divshot to host landing pages. You can view my post in its entirety via the link below.
https://divshot.com/blog/guest/using-divshot-for-landing-pages/
Our client, North Greece Fire Department, wanted a way for people to apply for their volunteer program online. The management said that submissions need to be on their 4-page volunteer application. Instead of abolishing the online submission, we combined the best of both worlds – the ease of submitting an online form, and still following company protocol by having that data populate dynamically into a PDF.
Here is a populated form with demo data:
Update: Just launched today, 6/5/2017: https://northgreecefiredepartmentinc.com/fire-department/apply-to-volunteer/
While working on the JoshuaLozoff.com site, he wanted to have a popup Mailchimp form. There are other ways to do it, like a Gravity Forms form that syncs to Mailchimp, but using the Subscriber Pop-Up form within Mailchimp allowed him to design and maintain the form himself. However, it doesn’t work on a click-basis (at the time of this writing).
We added a menu item, but it could also be an icon in the header, or link within text. However you implement it, this is how you’d make the popup work over and over. Because by default, when you X out of the popup, Mailchimp sets a cookie to not pop up again.
When you create the form and click View Code, you’ll get something like this.
<script type="text/javascript" src="//downloads.mailchimp.com/js/signup-forms/popup/embed.js" data-dojo-config="usePlainJson: true, isDebug: false"></script><script type="text/javascript">require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us2.list-manage.com","uuid":"1042eeab7cdd87c00298","lid":"ef55r43tg7c0"}) })</script>Modify it like this (lines 5 and 6). We’re just adding a click event to the link / icon that we want to use to trigger the popup, and then set the Mailchimp cookie so it expires.
<script type="text/javascript" src="//downloads.mailchimp.com/js/signup-forms/popup/embed.js" data-dojo-config="usePlainJson: true, isDebug: false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('.menu-newsletter').click(function() {
require(['mojo/signup-forms/Loader'], function(L) {
document.cookie = 'MCPopupClosed=;path=/;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC;';
document.cookie = 'MCPopupSubscribed=;path=/;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC;'; // So it'll always work on click
L.start({baseUrl: 'mc.us2.list-manage.com', uuid: '<PROVIDED BY MC>', lid: '<PROVIDED BY MC>'});
});
});
</script>There are a few plugins that allow you to serve images from your blog posts and pages, however, they only work from when you installed and activated the plugin. What do you do for existing media on your site? This is a great post that provides you with a script, a detailed blog post, and a video to follow along with. By the end of this, your site will be updated, serving your media from Amazon S3!
WordPress and Amazon S3 Quick Fix For Existing Media to be Served on Amazon S3
If you need assistance, please contact us. We can help you with this, as well as any other website needs you have.
If you’ve developed a website before or been through the process of having your site redesigned, you most likely have experienced bugs during the testing phase that may show on one browser, but not another. Internet Explorer 8 is an absolute pain and usually needs CSS and JavaScript specific to IE8 for your site to work the same as it does on other browsers.
Usage of IE8 is declining and it’s official – Microsoft no longer supports it either. Over the past 2 years we’ve only fixed IE8 bugs if they were reported, but the sites were not actively tested in IE8. Now, we can go a step further and end our support for IE8 as well.
We recently received a class action lawsuit mailer about records of a cell phone owned by the President of Nevis Technology that had been part of an incorrectly set up survey call. The website is http://sototcpasettlement.com. The website that was created for the class action lawsuit was simple, yet could not work properly. Four images do not display on the homepage, Contact Us just leads to the homepage, there is a sporadic SSL issue, and the form does not work on an iPad – and can captcha finally go away?. Though we haven’t fully tested the site, we believe specializing in Class Action Lawsuit websites is something Nevis Technology would like to pursue. We understand there is a sort of ID match up from mailer and website form, so data from somewhere gets put into a database used for the site.
We don’t know all of the details a site like this would require, but we’d like to work with you if you’re a lawyer looking for a website vendor. Tell us what typically is needed, and we’ll return the favor with a handsomely reduced price to work with us.
Here’s an article written by the Nevis Technology owner that clarifies the importance of having a solid code foundation with a simple analogy.
We get questions about the look of full-width images on pages frequently, so we thought it made sense to create a resource to show clients if questions come up. It’s a widely used design technique, but when you take into account the multitude of device sizes, clients can be confused why the image on the live site might look different than a PSD mockup or what they might have envisioned.
Simply put, it all has to do with ratios. In this article we’ll explain with some visual examples.
Let’s take an object everyone knows, a picture frame. Below are two frames, both landscape, but one wider than the other, but both the same height – these represent different browser widths.
Now we’ll take this image, which we’ll want to display in an area on your website with a fixed height (the 2 different picture frames).
This first example is taking this landscape picture and containing it to a frame that’s not as landscape, a different ratio. This would happen on a tablet-sized screen with the height set the same as it is on a desktop computer. Website visitors who don’t have their browser at the full width of their screen can also see it this way.
As the screen gets wider or the frame is shorter in height, the top and bottom of the photo will start to get cropped, in this case, cutting the text at the bottom.
Here’s the same picture that’s filling the container (the frame), but with a browser that’s wider – whether that’s a visitor to your site that has their browser to the full width of their screen, a large tablet that’s in landscape mode, etc.
Here is a real life example on the North Greece Fire Department website. The header image which we’ve used in the examples above are is shown at different screen widths. You should notice two things. The fireman and the flames can be seen in some fashion at all screen widths. And the text that’s written on top of the image (not the text that’s embedded in the image) can be adjusted to fit the space, whereas the embedded text cannot rearrange.
Now, you might be wondering, why not adjust the height as necessary to keep the ratio? This CAN be done, however, you run into other issues. If you have a carousel / slider of images, to have the slides all take up the same amount of space, each image would have to be the same exact pixel size (height and width), or you’ll notice the slider adjusting height up or down when going to each slide. This isn’t great for user experience, and for an administrator of a website, it’s a pain to ensure all images you’re uploading are exactly the same in pixel size. This is exactly the reason why we at Nevis Technology choose to create a canvas with a set height, and insert the image within that canvas – cropping the width or height of the image as necessary. It’s very lightweight in terms of strain on the browser, which creates a faster and better user experience. It also is good for the administrator because they don’t have to worry about opening Photoshop and making images the same size, or asking a designer or their web developer to do it – this results in a faster turn around to getting the page up.
It’s also a good method to use because you’ll be more in control of where the image is to “the fold” of your site. Though, we really debate if “above the fold” is still a topic because of the wide variety in screen sizes and pixel densities, some clients still talk about it and it’s important to them. If you’ve never heard this expression, it started with newspapers and having a story on the top half of the front page, above the fold of the newspaper, where it’s very visible. In web development, it’s the same idea – keeping the most important information easily viewable for a visitor to your site since it’s been proven people have a short attention span. What we’re debating is, where is the fold? In the old days when everyone was on comparable desktop computers, it was pretty easy to estimate, but with the introduction of smartphones, tablets, phablets (large smartphones) – all of which come in a variety of sizes, how do you determine where the “fold” is without testing and making changes for each device? That would be like developing many sites-worth of work, making device-specific adjustments, and it’s just not reasonable.
Not to say this is the only way to display full-width images or use images in sliders, but this is a pretty standard way that we produce, and you’ll see this method in a majority (if not all) of the major slider/slideshow/carousel plugins.
Takeaways
If this seems confusing or overwhelming, don’t worry! We’re here to help guide our clients through this process, making it as easy as possible.
A situation came up a franchise site that is a WordPress multisite installation, where we wanted to dynamically populate the signup location property for segmentation, set with the website URL.
Following these instructions doesn’t work for this situation, though it is close. https://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/determine-webpage-signup-location.
We also can’t do something like this (it didn’t seem to work):
var mailchimpFormURLUpdated = false;
$('#mc-embedded-subscribe').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
if( !mailchimpFormURLUpdated ) {
var form = $('#mc-embedded-subscribe-form');
form.prop('action', form.prop('action') + '&DOMAIN=' + window.location.host);
}
$('#mc-embedded-subscribe').click(); // Removing mailchimpFormURLUpdated
and just doing form.submit() here caused the form to open in a new window?
});But this DOES work. First, follow the beginning steps of the Mailchimp article, https://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/determine-webpage-signup-location. Go to a list and click Signup Forms, then General Forms, add a hidden field and save. Follow steps 1 – 9.
Go back to Signup Forms, and choose Embedded Forms. Grab the code and paste it in the site you’re working on.
This is where things change.
Add a field, I’m calling mine “DOMAIN”, and I put it above the Subscribe button:
<input type="hidden" name="DOMAIN" id="DOMAIN" />
<div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button"></div>This is the original JavaScript from Mailchimp:
<script type='text/javascript' src='//s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/mc-validate.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
(function($) {
window.fnames = new Array();
window.ftypes = new Array();
fnames[0]='EMAIL';
ftypes[0]='email';
fnames[1]='FNAME';
ftypes[1]='text';
fnames[2]='LNAME';
ftypes[2]='text';
}(jQuery));
var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
</script>We need to modify that slightly:
<script type='text/javascript' src='//s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/mc-validate.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
(function($) {
// ADD
$('#DOMAIN').val( window.location.host );
window.fnames = new Array();
window.ftypes = new Array();
fnames[0]='EMAIL';
ftypes[0]='email';
fnames[1]='FNAME';
ftypes[1]='text';
fnames[2]='LNAME';
ftypes[2]='text';
// ADD
fnames[3] = 'DOMAIN';
ftypes[3] = 'text';
}(jQuery));
var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
</script>That’s it! You can confirm by submitting your email address and look for &DOMAIN= in the POST URL.
And you’ll see the field in the list!
These days, everyone is accessing websites on a countless number of devices, all with different pixel ratios, resolutions and operating systems. This is where responsive web design (RWD) shines. When mobile development first started, the idea was to create a mobile site (sometimes referred to as an ‘m dot’ site) alongside the main website that desktops and laptops would access. This method posed many problems as more phones and tablets with various screen sizes were introduced into the market – as well as duplicating the work when future additions or edits were required. With potentially different methods on the creation of the ‘m dot’ and full website, when companies went in search of another web development firm, these site modifications added to the complexity of your overall web strategy and presence.
Responsive web design is the idea of having one website that is a mix of a fluid layout and CSS media queries. What that basically means is the website forms to the device that is viewing it and you can create different rules for different screen widths and/or pixel densities that allow you to optimize the look of your site on phones, tablets and desktops. You can show and hide elements, change font sizes or the position of images, text and other elements. Mobile devices tend to have slower internet speeds, so optimization is especially important – these optimizations also (partially) help with SEO.
Nevis Technology has been developing responsive websites and microsites for years and this feature is included with any project we work on.
Jack Hubbard, co-creator of HomeMadeGin.com posted that he saw a HomeMade Gin kit in a Sur La Table store in Virginia. It must be a very cool feeling to see something you’ve worked so hard on being sold all over the place.
In 2012, Jack Hubbard and Joe Maiellano came to Nevis Technology to create an ecommerce store for a business they were fiercely working on. It was an instant hit and was even featured on the NYTimes.com website, but also their print paper. It was a cool experience for us to see a site we worked on get so much press and be featured all over the place.
We love seeing our clients achieve their goals!
It’s a great place where you can build a new design, stage blog posts before they are approved and ready to go to the live site, etc. Something you might not think about, though, is how do you get the updates from the staging site to the live site?
Simply stated, it’s a very manual process. There are many ways this can be done, but they are all time intensive and prone to error.
The only situation in which it’s easy is when you can confirm the live site hasn’t had any additional blog posts (including edits), comments, pages (including edits), media assets, users, orders (if you’re site is an e-commerce store), no new forms or form entries, and no changes to your theme or configuration – since you copied the live site to the staging environment. If you can confirm nothing has changed on the live site, then it IS easy. You can simply replace the live site with the staging site – whether you were working on theme updates, blog posts, pages, etc.
In most cases, it isn’t that easy. Most sites will at least have some form entries from calls to action throughout the site. That’s not too hard to merge. If you’re using Gravity Forms, you can export the entries, copy the staging site to the live environment and import the entries back – the new entries will be there.
Most times, clients continue writing blog posts, maybe continue getting comments (though a lot of sites I work on now have comments off because they are mostly spam these days), they may edit content on a page or post. That makes it really hard to notice – because as you’re scanning the pages and posts, you see that title and it can be easy to skip over the Last Modified date.
In some cases, when we’ll build sites with custom fields, there’s not only the page, but also the metadata to that page (the custom field data) that need to make it to the live site.
Here’s a great third-party article on the very manual work that needs to be done to determine what’s changed, what you want to export, and import to the new site: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/moving-wordpress-site/
NOTE: We are not representing or affiliated with any of the links on this page.
You may or may not know, but Nevis Technology is getting into the education space, taking the years of knowledge, and sometimes unique workflows, bringing it available in video courses and eBooks. Take a look at Nevis Technology’s first course, Make Recurring Money by Hosting WordPress Sites.
As soon as this page was put up, we received an email from teachmorestudents@outlook.com. It sounded reasonable for this service to bring users to your course to sign up, even though you were giving a free coupon code. This practice is done a lot, as I’ve seen releasing the eBook version of this course on Kindle. You can run a promotion that allows users to download your eBook for free, and there are hundreds of sites dedicated to free eBooks, whether they are always free or there is a special KDP promotion that allows your book to be free for 5 days. The idea of this is to get people checking out your eBook (or course in the case of Teach More Students) to get feedback and ratings up.
So, after the Teach More Students promotion had run its course, yes, the Udemy course had 1,000 students, but most of them weren’t real people, and then I immediately found the course on the illegal, download for free, sites, just by doing a Google search for my course name. We would appreciate that if you are interested in the course you sign up through Udemy to support the creation of future courses, and to be able to ask questions and get updates.
Teach More Students is a scam and its purpose was to get my Udemy course video files to put up on the illegal download sites. This is what shows up on the website as of today, it looks like it shut down.
Here is the email we received on 4/25/2015:
Hi there,
I’m contacting you from Teach More Students. We’ve helped 100’s of Udemy instructor’s gain 1000’s of students.
The more students you have enrolled, the higher you will rank in Udemy, which increases your chances to gain paid students.
We’d really love it if you could take 30 seconds to see what you think of Teach More Students, and submit a FREE coupon for us to share:
– www.teachmorestudents.com
Thank you for your time.
* FREE Service: As we only share free coupon codes we don’t charge for sharing them to the 1000’s genuine Udemy students we know.
* FREE Coupons: Udemy has 6 million students, by providing free coupons, there are still millions of paying students out there for you.
Nevis Technology can build just about anything. The only limitations are budget and time. There are plenty of custom WordPress themes we’ve developed from scratch for clients, which you can read about on our WordPress page.
However, we can build completely custom frameworks as well! Some projects need something that requires a custom build of every line of code. It takes longer to build and test, but anything you imagine can be built.
To see what we’ve done on a platform that’s built from the ground up, there’s the Financial Symmetry Client Center and the Harris Funeral Home funeral pre-planning questionnaire.
We’ve also built robust custom functionality, such as the Corevist qualifying questionnaire and the Rising Sun Pools pool builder that uses WordPress as their CMS.
Last Updated: 3/21/2018
Working with Nevis Technology has completely changed the way I approach the web for my clients. I’m now able to tell more client’s “yes, we can do that crazy web thing for you” more often. [Nevis Technology’s] ability to accurately estimate the effort helps me price development effectively as well, making for a smooth sales process.
Nevis Technology works quickly to get the job done, which is very helpful – especially when time-sensitive issues come up. They are also very good at explaining complicated things in a way that’s easy-to-understand.
[Nevis Technology] is easy to work with, very responsive, and works quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality. [They have] a wide variety of skills that can be adapted to any situation. Nevis Technology is a great partner for web projects!
Working with NevTec EMS is awesome. All the technology involved is explained well. We have received an extremely high quality product at a very fair rate. Any questions we had were explained right away along with the updates and minor tweaks of the site.
Nevis Technology has been an invaluable partner to us. We truly view [you] as part of our team.
[Nevis Technology is] great at understanding our needs and translating them into functional and beautiful applications.
10/14/2015
Nevis Technology is excited about the Client Center product that we’ve been developing for Financial Symmetry. The project started this summer with some general ideas, so we got started on the design aspect of the site first. Financial Symmetry is a financial advisory firm, so we needed the look to be professional. We also needed the usage of the site to be clean and easy to use, as a lot of their clients are baby boomers. The experience of the Client Center on tablets and mobile devices was a strong requirement – as is for most sites these days – but we needed to ensure spotting the information was easy, uncluttered, and easy to interact with.
We chose some simple conventions that clients would pick up on without instruction, such as red / yellow / green colors. The initial color structure has evolved a few times after receiving feedback to make sure it’s as clear as possible, and then came the even more apparent, stop light indicator.
The initial design of the project lead us to create reusable widgets, colors, and a variation of styles, and charts. We created a style guide to display in one place, the colors, button variations, bullet lists, tables styles, etc.
The Client Center has transformed from a proof of concept to a product almost ready to launch. We’ve been connecting with actual data in their database, as well as pulling data from their website – such as the Your FSI Team section. The images, text, and LinkedIn links of the FSI team are pulling from their WordPress site, so maintenance is not a headache. As pictures or bio’s of the team changes, this site updates automatically.
Stay tuned for our continuing updates on this post!
My wife and I had a great Valentine’s Day. It was relaxing, and we made our own pasta from scratch from simple ingredients – flour, eggs, salt, etc. After the pasta was done, we made our own pasta sauce too.
Well, I thought it would be a good way to explain the different types of websites and how others can use the word “custom” carelessly…it’s a buzz word and it sounds good. It makes money, so why not use it?
What does custom really mean to you? Some website providers / developers / designers will tell you it’s between picking out between these handful of choices. They’ll “custom”ize the colors and add your logo to the many other sites they’ve done that look pretty much exactly the same as yours. For some, that’s the kind of website they want – it’s a quick turn around, less decision making, very affordable, and has all or most of the features you may want. It’s like going to the grocery store, taking 2 packages of Pillsbury cookie dough, mixing it together, baking it, and calling them custom cookies. It’s kind of true, and it took some time and thought to make that batch, but it’s not really “custom” – however, they are providing the service to you – making a website.
Custom web development to Nevis Technology means something different. Yes, it can mean creating something similar, and using some helpful tools to make the administration (the way you maintain the site) and development process faster (using “widgets” that have been created before). But custom isn’t about settling. If you want your site to be able to do something, or look a certain way, or if you need fine tuned adjustments to suit your needs, we can do that. If you need to integrate into 3rd party tools like MailChimp, your CRM, or a legacy back end system used in your business, we can do that.
Custom development can also be coming in on a project and putting in a patch that wouldn’t otherwise be there to fill a client request or enhancement on an existing website.
Whether you’re looking to start from scratch or if you have a custom site now that needs some features added, or a fresh look, Nevis Technology can deliver. Here are some case studies of previous projects.
Just like you can go to a restaurant and buy a pasta dish – you’re limited to their selection and maybe “custom”izing a few things, like “can I add mushrooms?”. A little more custom, you can go to the grocery store, buy a box of pasta, and numerous brands of numerous types of sauce, creating the dish yourself. You can also build the pasta dish from scratch with some simple ingredients and have it exactly the way you want it from the ground up.
Another example, if a car detailer said they would provide you a “custom” detailing on your vehicle, the only way that would be true is if they created their own waxes and cleaners in-house.
TJ’s, the owner of Nevis Technology LLC, grandfather was a welder. He did build custom creations by taking raw materials and putting them together for a custom solution to project specifications. Instead of giving the client only certain options within what could be done easily with a pre-built solution. An example of the pre-built, non-custom solution, would be to trim a wrought iron rail to be shorter, but not building and curling the wrought iron rail itself. The raw materials and some elements, like screws and bolts, are pre-built, but overall, the majority of the project was custom built as needed. The same thing with web development. We reuse code from previous projects to save time, but that’s still considered custom because it was built from the ground up initially, versus us just buying some code and working within the parameters of that plug-in or add-on.
With custom web development, anything can be done it just depends on how much you want to spend and how much time you have versus somebody who calls himself a web developer but gives you a bunch of “no” answers because that doesn’t fit the prebuilt theme. The way Nevis technology works is we give you options between custom development and pre-built solutions depending on your time range and budget will give you options that makes sense for what you’re looking for.
Nevis Technology specializes in fully custom solutions, we dabble in low-cost solutions to fit a client’s need (semi-custom) and eventually we’ll get into the product space to provide even lower cost, but less choice, solutions. That way we can offer the right solution for our clients no matter their budget or expectation.
Sometimes you want a new site without the new site price tag. A lot of clients have come to us this year having an issue with the way they maintain their website, not so much the way it looks on the front end to users visiting the site. The quick build, no coding plugins can only do so well. The larger your site, the harder it is to keep things consistent looking because you’re using those tools page by page.
We’ve taken WordPress based and non-WordPress based sites and converted them to an easy to administer dream. We custom build using well organized code, using newer technologies which makes your site fast and logical in the way the site functions – or if you find yourself searching for files directly on the server (most of our clients leave that work to us!). We create the new, custom theme to look similar to your current site, but making updates where we would suggest to make updates, with spacing, font size, or color consistency throughout the site.
Have a clients page? Are you currently copying and pasting HTML code or shortcode sections in the WordPress admin? We tailor each page to its current needs, so those tricky situations for non-coders are in the past.
Here are some examples of sites we’ve done exactly what we’re describing. If you’d like to know more information, please contact us.
PanHandler Bag has been growing as a business each year since we started working with each other in 2013. It’s so exciting to hear when a client is featured, and for the case of http://PanHandlerBag.com, it was on the DIY Network show, I Want That!
At the time of this post, it’s hard to find a link to a full episode, or even the clip on the show. We’ll update when we have more information. But if you can find Season 6, Episode 8 “Wall Candy”, PanHandler Bag is featured on that episode.
The PanHandler Bag is an insulated tote, designed to hold stackable 9” x 13” baking pans with lids for transport. Removable insert for bottom makes it easy to clean and fold flat, and provides extra stability. It comes in 2 sizes, small and large, allowing you to stack 2 or 4 pans in the respective bag.
