Engineering

The Cloud Construct team uses innovative techniques and programming languages for the front-end functionality and back end programming of your web application. We’ll architect your web application so that it can easily grow with your company and user base, as well a enabling it to be used on a variety of devices without sacrificing appearance or functionality.

Front-End/User Interface Development

Cloud Construct uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) throughout all of our websites. CSS is a web language used to style and format HTML web documents. CSS allows you to define a style for a particular element and then apply that style throughout your website, significantly reducing the amount of markup throughout. This allows for not only more innovative design and development techniques, but also drastically reduces the load on your website due to the condensed styling. With CSS, you have more control over the elements on your webpage, positioning them wherever on the page you would like. This is a much more flexible option than strict HTML, and now the standard for proper web development.

With the constant revisions of the CSS language, new techniques are constantly being applied to produce cutting edge code. Combining CSS with XHTML in a .NET web environment, we are able to style a design that is fully functioning in all major web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Google Chrome.

With the use of CSS, we are able to target specific media, such as a mobile device. By generating a specific style sheet for your mobile device, we can manipulate how your site will appear on a smaller screen without changing the current structure of the website. CSS also allows for printer-friendly web pages by designating material from your website that you either do or do not intend to print. A truly flexible markup language, CSS has the ability to target many aspects of your website, ultimately generating clean and efficient code, which also lends a hand to the site's search engine optimization.

It is important to consider your website as a living and breathing entity. If the site is not architected correctly the first time the maintenance overhead and scalability will be affected. Cloud Construct takes in pride in its ability to build a strong architectural design that will scale in the future and not hamper and new feature requests.

Our engineering team uses the latest Microsoft technologies to build your custom website or application to specification and suited to your company’s needs. Our team specializes in the Microsoft .NET platform, jQuery JavaScript library, Windows Communication Foundation, and Microsoft SQL Server. Using these technologies we can build applications for small to enterprise size businesses.

Cloud Construct specializes in building rich internet applications (RIA). Using the latest jQuery AJAX libraries and Microsoft web services we have developed a platform that is secure, reliable, and scalable for your website. RIA applications give the user of your website a great user experience. Some of the features we have developed include dynamic search, accordion controls, popup controls, auto-complete controls, and AJAX form submission.

The Cloud team are also experts in integrating custom login, e-commerce, and SSL into your site. We will take care of hosting your site in a secure environment and also apply for all the necessary SSL certificates for your site. We use Microsoft standard membership providers and role management standards as well. Our sites are secure and dependable so you and your client feel good about the level of security while browsing.

Below are some of the main features we can add to your project or website:

CMS (Content Management Systems)
RIA (Rich Internet Applications)
Google and Microsoft Live Maps Integration
Blog Integration
E-Commerce
Custom Login Functionality
Document Hosting and Submission
Document Processing and Parsing
Web Services
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