Website Development

We build Web sites that are fun and easy to drive.

OJC builds Web sites that people enjoy using because the functionality is straightforward, the aesthetics are appealing, and the design is built on a thorough understanding of user needs, current trends, and technology. OJC's Web development philosophy is driven by usability-directed design, which prioritizes:

• identifying and meeting differing user needs
• providing professional, appealing, and usable interfaces
• creating an intuitive, elegant, and expandable information architecture and navigation
• delivering substantive content and functionality to users that is able to change and grow along with users' ever-changing needs
• maximizing site accessibility for users with disabilities and slower technology
• ensuring the maintainability of a site through correct choice of technology, simplicity of organization, and adequate provision of documentation and training

We are information architecture experts.

Large Web sites require planned navigation, labeling, and search systems. OJC organizes information and tests our work to ensure that users can easily meet their goals. OJC has untangled large Web sites framing them in elegant, intuitive, consistent architectures. We've created portals, selected between audience-specific and task-based navigation systems, written alphabetical indexes, built architectures from the bottom up by cataloging and then classifying content, and designed top-down navigation structures. Our graphic design team creates color and layout choices that support the site architecture. Our programming team builds and customizes site search systems.

OJC has untangled large websites by framing them in elegant and intuitive architectures. The websites for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of Illinois at Chicago stand as award-winning examples of taming the information beast. See Under The Hood how we redesigned these two sites.

We create clients who don't need us anymore.

A website is useless without the power to maintain it. OJC understands that a good website comes with a way to keep it current and organized while reducing, or even eliminating, further need for consulting services. To help keep clients independent, we are well-versed in content management systems that are easy and powerful for users, no matter what their technical skill level.