Emergent Studios: Creative Solutions. Applied Design. Multimedia Development.

Based in Central Canada (Winnipeg, MB), Emergent Studios offers services coast-to-coast in North America and beyond. Our client roster includes corporations, small businesses, large companies, private enterprises, the Arts & Entertainment industry, musicians and personal "vanity" projects.

Emergent also provides a considerable volume of sub-contract work to the multimedia and web development & design sector, serving other companies and groups in the industry in a timely, proficient and confidential manner.

Emergent Offers You Our Expertise & Experience In:

Website Design/Redesign

• * Creating new, functional web design (from a blank slate or in collaboration) that is an effective visual representation of your content.
• * Visual impact caters to your target audience.

A Complete Web Presence From Scratch

• * Original coding & scripting (we don't use WYSIWYG programs or hack templates) to meet your needs & requirements.
• * Websites designed and built to proper and correct specifications using universal standards compliant code.
• * Website updates and maintenance.
• * Informing search engines where to find you and what you have to offer.
• * Selecting appropriate URL. (e.g. http://www.google.ca)
• * Setting up a hosting package where your website will be stored.
• * Configuring hosting control panels.
• * Creating email accounts.
• * Connecting domains and DNS to server space. (where applicable)
• * Launching the website.

Offered Web Applications & Features

• * Administrative Control Panels (Built To Order): Extensive, secure, password-protected, back-end website sections where authorized users can edit site content. Customized to manage your website's content.
• * E-Commerce: Listing and selling products on your website. Creating web-based stores for merchandise & distribution. (e.g. PayPal)
• * Online Forms (Contact Forms, Registration Forms, Survey Forms): Receive specified, guided, desired user feedback through your website, sent directly to email addresses or databases of your choosing.
• * Blogs/Forums: Installing and customizing tools for extensive information posting and interactive discussion environments.
• * Online Databases: Accessible data and information stored online. Multiple purposes and usages. (e.g. site content, data backup, mailing lists, etc.)
• * Embedded Media: Make your media viewable and/or downloadable through user interaction with your website. (e.g. video, audio, images, PDFs, etc.)
• * Event Calendars: Browser-based, online calendar. Password-protected administrative access. Useful for displaying information (bookings, scheduling, shift-work, reservations, etc.) publicly or privately.
• * Widgets: Small applications within the website that provide added user experience and functionality. (e.g. hit counters, loading bars, photo galleries, unique scroll bars, etc.) Built to your specifications.

Business Identity Packages

• * Bring a consistency to your company's visual representation across a full-spectrum: the website, business cards, logos, headers, advertisements, customer correspondence materials, daily-use office materials.
• * Materials can be created or formatted for use both online and in print.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• * You have an eye-catching, informative website. Now make sure that an ever-increasing first-time audience can find it online!
• * Show up in the results list when a user Googles your profession, product or subject of expertise.
• * Improve search engine cataloguing of your website by standards compliant, intelligent coding based on target words and search phrases.

Online Marketing

• * Drive traffic to your website through the proper effective usage of various methods.
• * Discover what works best for your interests.
• * Search Engine Optimization, newsletter campaigns, banner ads, online community networking, effective linking methods, etc.

A Little Thought Goes A Long Way

• * Writing For The Web: Editing, writing & formatting text content that is streamlined, concise and digestible by online viewers, as opposed to traditional print standards. Your content can be "web appropriate", easy to read and parse through.
• * Information Architecture: Ensuring that your website's content, hierarchy & navigation is intuitive, user-friendly, practical & properly organized for maximum user impact.
• * Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Compatibility: Emergent Studios' websites are functional, stable and visually comparative in all major browsers and will display on Mac or PC computers and PDAs.
• * Use of Standards Compliant Code: Code that measures up to modern recommended guidelines to promote stability and website longevity.
• * Frameworks: Methods of website development meant to save time and money by using predefined coding and functions to decrease development time.
• * Customer Usability: Research and development focused on improving the user experience.
• * Online Newsletters: Creating cross-browser, cross-platform, stable newsletters with maximized coding to increase its probability of landing in the recipient's inbox, and not their junk-mail.
• * Multiple Non-English Languages: Designing & programming a website for international use.

Languages Emergent Speaks

• * PHP: Server-side programming language to provide increased function and usability for a website. (content management, web applications, login areas, photo galleries, etc.)
• * CSS: Method of styling the appearance of a website to allow faster updates in the future and a more consistent rendering of your content cross-browser.
• * mySQL: Method of managing any amount of information/content for a website for viewing, editing and deleting. Database development.
• * XHTML: Language used to present website content in a logical, easy to read and find format that promotes accessible content.
• * JavaScript/AJAX: These languages offer increased usability and function for a website to improve the user and/or administrator experience.
• * Flash: Method of increasing visual communication & "pop" in a website including animation, slideshows, video and motion graphics.

Program Experience

• * Adobe Creative Suites (Photoshop, Indesign, Flash, Illustrator)
• * Macromedia Freehand & Flash
• * Final Cut Pro (Video Editing) & Adobe After Effects (Post-Production Motion Graphics)
• * DVD Studio Pro (DVD Authoring)
• * Maya (3D Modeling & Animation)
• * Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Word)
• * Apple iWork (Pages, Keynote)
• * Adobe Acrobat (PDF Publishing)
• * File Editing Software (e.g. CSSEdit, TextMate, TextWrangler, BBEdit, etc.)
• * Multiple Browser Expertise (e.g. Mozilla FireFox, Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.)
• * FTP programs (e.g. Fetch, Transmit, FileZilla, etc.)

Emergent Products & Demos

• Emergent Editable Multi-Purpose Calendar Version 1.1.3

Emergent Studios Is:

• * Two employees with two-year Digital Multimedia Technology degrees. (Web Development, Programming, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Video Production)
• * One employee with one-year certificate. (Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration)
• * One part-time employee with two-year degree. (3D Animation, Motion Graphics, Illustration)
• * One employee with one-year degree (Photography)
• * Sixteen years combined industry experience.

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