In this issue
Designers, agencies, let's be heroes together!
Symetris is an super development partner for creatives
Does your creative team love to design websites but is not familiar with advanced programming? Would you refuse a web project opportunity because it's too complex to build in-house?
If you answered yes, teaming up with Symetris would be a super idea! Together, we can win projects that neither of us could have on our own!
In the past few years we have been focusing on building collaborative alliances with design firms, ad agencies and public relations specialists. It works so well because it’s mutually beneficial: the communications companies focus on what they do best, being creative, while we concentrate our talents on developing dynamic websites.
Our growing team has been dedicated to building quality websites since 2004. So next time an interesting web project comes your way, but seems to complex to handle in-house, think about teaming up with Symetris!
 What we’ve been up to in the past months
Recent projects we launched with “open-source CMS”
We’ve launched quite a few sites since our last newsletter (complete list on our online portfolio). Many of them were built with open-source content management systems – mainly Drupal and WordPress.
Here’s a quick list:
Why use open-source CMS platforms, you ask? They are stable, secure, updated regularly, easy to build upon and also, since many developers use them, clients can switch web supplier knowing that someone else will be able to work on the project without having to “start from scratch”.
Not yet convinced about their value? Here is a list of a respected websites that use Drupal or WordPress as their platform (name-dropping alert!):
Mobile devices gaining ground online
Websites aren’t just for computers anymore
Smartphone, iPhone, BlackBerry – more and more people are accessing websites with mobile devices. Many of the sites visited with these devices are not optimized for display on the small screens and the slower connection speeds they use.
A lot of websites work just fine on smartphones, especially ones where you simply need to find quick information. A few of them, however, especially ones where you need to input information or use specific dynamic features, are quite difficult to use. These would definitely benefit from being “optimised” for mobile devices.
The difficulty with optimizing websites for small screens is that there still is no consensus among hardware developers as to a standard display. A site that looks fine on iPhone, for example, might look weird on a BlackBerry (and there are also differences between models of a same type of phone).
Until a standard emerges, it might not be necessary for “smaller” websites to be optimized for mobile use. However, owners of feature-intensive, user-driven portals should make a decision weighing the pros & cons of investing in mobile device optimization.
Here are some great examples of mobile websites to explore: www.mobileawesomeness.com
PS: No need to panic! As of June 10, 2010, only 3% of visitors used a smartphone to navigate the web. We are at the very start of this trend.
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