Your Personal Genie...sort of

Ok, well, we can't promise you gold or riches beyond your wildest dreams, but we can promise you in delivering a tool or application that may get you there! We position ourselves as the company that could answer all your website needs. See if we can offer you any services below:

Consultation and Information Gathering

Often, small to medium sized businesses that have never had a website, come under prepared for creating a web presence. This is normal! Understanding what you need for a website generally requires some knowledge regarding the structure of websites. The type of information that you need changes, depending on the goals of the website as well.

Lotus Creations takes a structured approach to information gathering, reducing the time and cost necessary to get the correct information for your site. Below is a short illustration of our process:

Designs and Composites

We pride ourselves in creating professional, high quality, clean designs. All designs that come out of Lotus Creations Inc. are custom made to your specifications and requirements.

We believe that designs are not a subject of right or wrong, black or white. Designs are definitely one of the tougher aspect of web production, since peoples perceptions of whats beautiful, clean or nice could be quite different. When we design, our goal is to meet the expectations of the client, but also achieve the objectives that are defined for your site. We try to do this by taking an iterative approach to design. A constant communication between the designer and the client, refining details that could meet each others objectives. Below is a short illustration of our process:

Tableless HTML/CSS Templating (SEO Friendly) and UI Integration

When we convert designs to web format, we take every consideration in making sure the web version is the closest it can be to the composites created. When converting we also think about the best route to take in making sure the code is flexible enough to be integrated into any content management system, as well as easy integration with other UI functionality such as AJAX, dynamic menus, dynamic content and/or Flash. Below is a short illustration of our process:

Web Application Programming

Depending on what your looking for we would first do an analysis to what you need. We would take a structured approach in discovering your needs for this application. This detailed approach is used to flush out all the "unknown" variables that may be lurking around the corner. It is only through a detailed analysis, could we accurately determine what we will be delivering and what we are bound to deliver, we definitely do not want to short change your needs and expectations!

Ofcourse we understand, there are smaller applications that would not require a detailed analysis, but we do recommend that these smaller applications should have its functionality flushed out in a detailed UI diagram so that we are bound to what we will deliver for you. Remember, trust and communication! Below is a short illustration of our process:Ā

Quoting Engine

Our quoting engine is a simple application that provides a general estimate of the cost for creating a basic to average complexity site. It does not take into consideration sites that require custom coding and other complexities not found in typical sites.

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Request an Estimate

Project estimation isn’t an overly complex process, but it does take time to gather all the necessary information for us to provide an accurate estimate. Our form here enables us to gather as much of the “easy to answer” questions from you as possible, and provide an estimate based upon what you have requested in these forms. On certain circumstances, we may need additional clarifications from you, so please be patient with us, we want to do the best job possible so that we can save you money and time!

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Services List

Below is a comprehensive list of services we can provide clients:

MANAGEMENT SERVICES:

Project Management
Content Gathering
Research/SEO
Systems Analysis (feature idenfication/diagrams and logic)

WEB/PRINT DESIGN SERVICES:

Logo Design
Brochure Design
Business Card Design
Catalog Design
Card Design
Web Design

PROGRAMMING SERVICES:

MySQL Database Design
SQL
PHP
Javascript
HTML/CSS
Actionscript 2.0
Custom API

Lotus Who?

Lotus Creations Inc. is a web design and development shop specialized in the production of custom websites using standard HTML/CSS (for front-end) and PHP/MySQL (for back-end). These websites range from brochure sites, ecommerce sites, portfolio sites to basic 5 page personal sites. Each project is carried out with these specific motos in mind:

Provide designs that are user centered
Provide programming solutions that solve business problems
Launching a successful site that functions to your expectations

Technologies we use

For design, we use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. For programming, we use Zend Development Environment, Aptana Studio, Dreamweaver, Flash and Homesite.

Buzz words (for the tech geeks out there)

AJAX, Custom CMS, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, API, JSON, REST, accessible HTML/CSS, MVC and

Stay in Touch

Interested to see whats happening with us? Or, get first dibs on specials? Or, be the first to see where we are going to be? Or, just curious? Then connect with us! We are do our best to keep things updated!