Process & Expertise

What can you expect when working with Small City?

We’ll meet up or have a telephone call and discuss your project to gather high level details of what you’re looking for.

We’ll crunch some numbers and produce an estimate for you.

Assuming everything is to your liking, we’ll set out a development plan and start production. We’ll work with you through the process. We’ll setup a demonstration site online, hold regular conference calls or meetings and  ensure we’re building the website that will really meet your needs. This approach offers you the flexibility to guide the site’s creation as it comes together while your requirements and priorities solidify.

Our Expertise

We encourage our clients to use not only the latest technology, but also the most appropriate technology which will work for our clients into the future. Technologies that will be easy to manage as your online presence grows. Although we’re continually keeping abreast with the myriad of options the web has to offer, we specialize in Ruby on Rails and WordPress.

Ruby-on-Rails

Clients looking for feature rich sites should look no further than Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). RoR is an open-source web framework with a thriving web community continually developing the code base to ensure the framework is using the latest web technologies and best practices in web development. RoR applications are easy and quick to development (known as RAD or Rapid Application Development), and easy to change as a site comes together and grows (known as Agile Development). RoR is very versatile: if you can dream it up, you can develop it with Ruby on Rails.

WordPress

WordPress is almost the de facto framework for blog, news and content management systems. Millions and millions of websites around the globe (including ours — smallcity.ca) use wordpress. WordPress, a superb open source software with a thriving developer community, is great for simpler brochure-style sites promoting a service, providing our clients the ability to create and update their own content. It’s also, of course, the world leader in blog, news, and sites where clients need to provide regular updates online to their audience. WordPress is versatile enough to add many commonly required features — ecommerce, calendars, forms, SEO (search engine optimization) and social media integration to name just a few.

Ready to get started? Contact us:

Email: info@smallcity.ca

Phone: 416-893-2352