Capabilities

Studio’s HTML/CSS developers adhere to strict W3C compliant and Section 508 Accessibility guidelines and strive for progressive enhancement or graceful degradation (depending on the situation) when developing front-end templates. This ensures that the site’s information is organized in such a way that is both hierarchal and relevant to its markup. Progressive enhancement and graceful degradation allow for the use of the latest CSS3/HTML5/JavaScript techniques to reward users with progressive browsers without sacrificing functionality and experience for users with legacy browsers. We never use tables for layouts except when displaying tabular information. All Flash and Image content contains alternate backup content. Sites are optimized for accessibility by screen readers so the visually-impaired may use them. All of the HTML/CSS is thoroughly commented and properly formatted for ease of change for future developers.

Mobile competencies include development for iOS and Android smartphones and tablet devices using native SDKs (Objective-C/Java) as well as third-party frameworks (Corona/cocos2d/Appcelerator/Adobe AIR). The types of applications developed have included: streaming video/audio, motion detection, P2P communication, 2D games with particle effects and physics, and voice recognition.

Studio's development team has plenty of experience using the Facebook and Twitter APIs. From something as simple as a "like" button or aggregated Twitter feed, to full-scale Facebook Apps, to more complex social features like integrating Facebook as a login/authentication solution, Studio's development team has done it. We don't believe that Facebook application development should be a mechanical effort left strictly to shops that call themselves "Facebook application developers". Our extended expertise in core web technologies like PHP, ASP.NET, Actionscript (Flash and Flex), and JavaScript combined with our solid experience with Facebook Social Plugins, OAuth, Graph API, FQL, FBML, and Twitter API makes our team a complete, more well-rounded, end-to-end partner. Studio is also committed to staying on top of the latest emerging social networking technologies such as Facebook Timeline.

Our PHP development team’s proficiencies span the following:

• PHP 4 through 5.4; Frameworks: Symfony, CakePHP, Zend Framework, Magento, CodeIgniter, Spring
• MySQL 4 through 5.5, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server databases
• Linux, Windows, Unix, OS X operating environments
• Apache, IIS application & web servers
• Javascript; Frameworks: JQuery, AJAX, YUI.
• Content Management Systems: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla
• Web Services for high performance and scalable applications: SOAP, XML-RPC, REST
• OAuth 1.0 & 2.0 as an authorization protocol for secure access of data
• eCommerce: PayPal, Google Payments, Authorize.net, Shipping Integration

Studio's Back-end Development team includes expertise in the development of Internet applications for Microsoft’s .NET Platform and Microsoft SQL Server database. Our team uses the latest development technologies from Microsoft, including ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, WCF Web Services, Enterprise Library, and ASMX Web Services to deliver highly scalable solutions to our clients.

Studio's Flash team is well versed in development with Flash, Flex, Actionscript and MXML. We use the Flash runtime to build all types of interactive projects from mobile apps to rich media banner ads to database driven Flash websites and everything in between.

We have written a custom Object-Oriented framework that allows us to quickly build scalable event driven websites. Our framework utilizes the SWFObject and SWFAddress Javascript libraries, which accommodates deep-linking and search engine optimization. For PHP powered websites, we integrate the Zend AMF framework and AMPHP, providing seamless and speedy communication with PHP and MySQL databases.

When building interface driven web applications, we have used the Flex framework to effectively and quickly deploy administrative applications and Facebook apps. We have the capability to write custom components such as charts and graphs, and style components to match specific creative. Some of our Flex applications give our clients the ability to update their Flash frontend sites and dynamic XML-driven banners.

Our Flash developers are highly skilled when it comes to creating rich media and static banners ads built in AS2 or AS3 that meet strict functional specifications such as small file size and short time limits. We can handle a wide variety of rich media advertising, leveraging the use of rich media platforms such as Doubleclick, Eyewonder, Pointroll, and FlashTalking. We have built custom dynamic banners that pull data from XML to display different content based on the current date.

Leveraging peer-to-peer communications servers and APIs, Studio has created unique cross-platform experiences that connect multiple users of an application. These exciting new technologies enable us to setup real time messaging, synchronization of user views, and transmission of video and audio between participants.

Everyone talks about how good their creative team is. And everyone talks about how many awards their creative team has won. And everyone touts their creative philosophy and process and all that jazz. And the industry generally eats that stuff up. But because we do a ton of work for agencies, we're a bit different. Studio’s creative team has produced tons of award-winning work over the past 9 years, and we continue to strive hard to concept and execute high-end, contemporary, note-worthy creative for our clients. But we can't brag about it, nor would we want to. It's not really our style. As we've mentioned in the foundation section of our site, we lay low. There's not much else to say here. The work speaks for itself. We'd be happy to walk you through some of our creative work any time. Just get in touch.

Studio’s strategy offerings span the areas of:

• Digital Strategy
• Brand Strategy
• Social and Earned Media Strategy
• Measurement and Analytics

Studio’s strategic process follows these 4 basic steps:

• Identifying the key opportunities and/or challenges for Azamara Club Cruises, where online assets can provide a solution
• Identifying the unmet needs and goals of the customers that most closely align with those key business opportunities and/or challenges
• Developing a vision around how the online assets will fulfill those business and customer needs, goals, opportunities and challenges
• Prioritizing a set of online initiatives which can deliver on this vision

Every website Studio llc. builds is organically sound where SEO is concerned, from a development standpoint. However, more can be done to fully optimize your site. Studio offers the following services in our full SEO offering:

• Website evaluation and SEO audit
• Keyword research
• Keyword optimization
• Search engine analytics

A lot has changed in marketing in the last few years, especially advertising on the web. Gone are the days of simple banner ads and measuring eyeballs. Now you have search engine marketing or pay per click that can be quite complicated and expensive. Studio llc. aims to make search engine marketing easy for you and ensure the big 3 – Google, Bing and Yahoo – bring the right traffic to your website.

Social media marketing has quickly become an industry unto itself. It's key for companies to maintain and monitor a social media channel to communicate with customers and leads, and get a feel for what they think of its brand and products. Companies and businesses must now have a social media strategy, starting with the big 4: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Other social media sites such as Quora, Foursquare, and Reddit can also be utilized for social media outreach.

There are three reasons why social media is critical for any business:

• It allows you to communicate with customers quickly and easily
• It amplifies your content on the Internet (the social media effect, drawn below)
• It helps you to monitor the impact of your brand in the marketplace, including your customers' positive and negative impressions

Since social media marketing is so new, many businesses are overwhelmed by even the thought of creating a strategy. Studio llc. works with you to use social media to increase your business through the following services:

• Setup
• Management
• Monitoring
• Analytics

Email marketing remains one of the most cost effective means for businesses to grow revenue and target their marketing. Studio llc. can fully manage your campaigns – concept, design, build, automate and integrate – email blasts, blogs, newsletters and the like.

Our experienced information architects work on everything from small games and apps, to large-scale, content-managed portals. Agencies often call on Studio's IA team to jump in at the beginning of a job, and handle the creation of full architecture documentation such as wireframes, sitemaps, user scenarios, etc. We can be brought in just for that one component of the job, or we can be brought in to architect and build. We are glad to pitch in where ever our clients need us.

Studio's project management team is headed by our Director of Production, who has over 12 years of agency experience, specifically working on the digital side of the business. Our project managers are technologically savvy and process-oriented. They also have a "calm-under-fire" approach to management, which goes a long way when we're handed a project with a crazy, tight deadline. Our current clients love working with our PM team because they possess these qualities... and because they're just great people to work with on a day-to-day basis. We know that work is a whole lot more bearable when you get to work with good people. So, we only hire the best.