Video
Video is an excellent way to demonstrate a product, talk directly to your audience, explain a concept or share an experience. Whether you are a private company, Government Department, Non–Governmental Organisation, or a charity, sharing video files via the web can radically improve your communication with your audience and enhance the image of your organisation.
Ecru have years of experience both managing the video creation process, converting videos into a format that website visitors can easily download, optimising sound levels, file size, dividing long videos into parts so that they are easier to download and use and implementing video files in social media environments, within the Ecru content management and on traditional HTML websites.
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Animation
Animation has many uses on a website, from the use of JQuery to enable elegant transformations from one state to another, to the use of Flash animation to create entrancing educational activities or games.
JQuery is used with great success on the Crown Prosecution Service Easy read version of the Core Quality Standards, where it is used to enable the meaning of words in the glossary to elegantly appear on the page where the word is used. If users systems are not able to utilise this technology the word simply becomes a hyperlink. JQuery can also be used to create animated panels on a web page, these can be used to highlight important information or provide eye catching advertisements.
Flash animation can be used to provide a more extensive experience such as an educational activity or game. The Champions of Justice website uses this technology to enable students to get an idea of what it is like to be a Crown Prosecutor deciding whether to prosecute a suspect.
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Sound
Sound files have great potential to add interest and information to pages. We often use sound files on websites to aid accessibility for visitors with visual problems, cognitive difficulties or English as a second language. The ability to listen to a page being read either instead of reading it of while reading it opens up the information to a whole range of visitors who would not otherwise be able to access the information.
Audio files can also be used to provide interview information, music or speech, enriching the visitor's experience of visiting the website and making it a memorable experience.
Mobile web
Websites for mobile devices such as mobile phones or PDA devices are an exciting new development in web technology and as always Ecru are up with the front runners. Designing websites for tiny mobile devices is a challenge to all areas web development. Tiny screens place a premium on concise clear content creation as well as site design. Integrating the mobile site with an existing website and making sure that mobile users are sent to the correct website and slower connection speeds present a challenge for technologists. However this is a challenge we have met with enthusiasm.
The benefits of mobile websites include:
- Instant access to mobile users on the move
- Access to information as and when the user needs it
- Greater access to potential buyers
- Larger audience, not dependant on computer ownership
- Easier access to essential information, services and sales for mobile users
- Easier user interaction via automatic "call us" links, geographic positioning information and alerting features
We can build mobile websites; develop mobile commerce systems and iPhone applications.
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