Custom Built Websites

PHP/MySQL

PHP and MySQL are the backbone of any good website. PHP is a dynamic scripting language that allows your users to interact with your website. For example, the user visits your website, they click on a button that submits a form. The button they pressed triggers a PHP script that handles the input the user entered into the form before hitting the button. The PHP script can communicate with the database to display information, send an email with the form input or trigger errors in the form.

The sky is literally the limit with what PHP can do for your website.

We specialize in PHP development utilizing MySQL as the driving engine to display a website. Creating a website in PHP offers amazing benefits like being able to update the information on your website through a Content Management System. It also helps negotiate additional content for your website utilizing API’s from reliable source like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Most websites utilize API’s for displaying weather, maps, driving directions and more. 99% of API’s are written to use PHP technology.

PHP coding is used to separate programming code from design code. This is important because you eliminate the possibility of breaking your website by altering the programming code when making design changes.

HTML

HTML is the underlying display agent for your web browser. In the stone ages, websites were written using only HTML to display content. Scripting languages like PHP came out shortly after, but HTML is still the foremost authority on displaying the content created by any language.

Being an expert in HTML is very important to achieve the display goals you have for your website. No Dead End continues it’s education on HTML because it is an evolving technology.

CSS

CSS is a tool that has been around for quite a few years and it’s developed into a necessity for almost every web design project in existence. CSS, like PHP, is a scripting language coders use to separate design code from the HTML code.

The technique is to use CSS, a separate file altogether, for creating classes and ID’s for div tags and tables. The classes and ID’s are then called using the HTML. This way, you only have to write the design properties one time and then use the styling sheet in your pages to call the design to action.

CSS is a fundamental element when building a good website. It has cache power which helps speed up your website and it has the capabilities to create difficult design schemes that are typically more difficult in straight HTML

Javascript/jquery

Ah, the lifesavers of web design. Javascript and it’s brother jquery are technologies used to create on the fly content without having to refresh the browser. Unlike PHP, which runs it’s scripts on the server side and then generates the results, jquery and javascript run their programming directly through the users browser. This eliminates the browser from being refreshed to display programming results.

As a web user, you encounter javascript on almost every website you visit, and today’s computer manufacturers and browser agents, are built with javascript as a default application.

Open Source Installation and Customization

OScommerce

OsCommerce is the world’s #1 platform for creating dynamic, attractive e-commerce solutions for all business industries. With a core team of developers and an excellent support staff, OScommerce can delivery every aspect of an e-business you could ever possibly imagine.

There are literally thousands of unique and customizable plug-ins available, that are all free to use through the enormous OSC community, to help you build the e-store of your dreams.

No Dead End Specializes in OScommerce installations and customizations. We help with every aspect of getting your site up and running including:

• Setting up shipping modules
• Creating and establishing payment accounts – Paypal, Google Checkout, etc..
• Stocking the store
• User management

ZenCart

ZenCart is just like OScommerce. It’s an extremely popular e-commerce solution. There are advantages and disadvantages to both installations but for the most part, the core experience for the web user is identical.

Worpress

WordPress is an amazing platform to use as a website. It can be used as a blog or customized to work as fully functional website content management system. In fact, most websites are built using WordPress in some fashion. The website you are currently on was built using WP as it’s backbone.

The CMS was built using PHP as it’s core programming language so it’s easily customizable for any specific need.

WP is released for free, so anyone can download it, but hiring a professional to install WordPress is essential if you’re a noob to programming. The process is usually very fast and the cost is minimal for a stock install of the script. No Dead End can install the script and more. With thousands of templates and plug-ins available, NDE can help you customize WordPress to look and work as you would like it to.

Necessary Web Services

Content Management Systems (CMS)

A content management system (CMS) is the collection of procedures used to manage data. Almost every website built today is being constructed with a CMS as a core module of the website.

In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.

Site Tracking and Google Analytics

Being able to track what your website does is one of the most important parts of owning a website. With Open Source tools, and tools available from major names like Google, tracking your website these days is a breeze.

No Dead End can implement a site tracking tool that’s right for you. If you have a website but do not have a tracking method, contact us right away to get one established.

Search Engine Optimization

Possibly the most important key to a successful website is optimizing it for the search engines. Don’t be fooled by black hat or noob SEO artists, yes artists, SEO is a systematic process that one doesn’t just learn or claim they can do, it must be absorbed directly into the brain and become a new programming language outside of the traditional sense of the word in this industry.

With evolving algorithms from every major search engine, SEO trends change all the time. No Dead End stays up-to-date with these trends by engulfing ourselves in the industry. Reading news articles, press releases and developing relationships with other reputable SEO artists, our knowledge of SEO continues to grow and remain current so we use the correct techniques for our clients.

We won’t, because we can’t, promise you the PR 1 (Page Rank) on any SERP (Search Engine Result Page) but we can promise you that we only practice acceptable methods to help grow your PR organically so when you do find yourself on Page 1, you stay there.