DI's expertise includes Front-End, Back-End, Mobile, Calculation Engines, as well as 3rd-Party Integration. Combining strategic planning, requirements gathering, usability, creativity, and technology, DI transforms business objectives into compelling digital experiences. We strive to create the best user experience for our clients and their customers/users. Following a project launch, our clients experience some pretty impressive results. Greater brand awareness. Increased web-site traffic. Improved search result rankings. More ideal customer leads. The list goes on and on. for some time-to-market is the key, for others a consistent product platform is the most critical factor.
These Front-End technologies generally run in the browser and provide the UI / UX. The backbone of the Front-End is HTML and CSS, which provide the core markup language and styling. Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, and JSON provide more dynamic capability for the UI / UX. The Front-End can be any combination of HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, or JSON.
The Back-End technologies generally run on the server and provide dynamic data and complex logic. The backbone of the Back-End is usually a server-side language like PHP or JAVA, along with a database like MySQL or Postgres. The Back-End can be any combination of a server-side language, database, and server.
Frameworks are generally a light weight library written in a core Front-End or Back-End language to provide an easier and cleaner implementation. The Zend and Codeigninter Frameworks are both writtern in PHP, where as Spring, Struts, and Hibernate Frameworks are all written in JAVA. BackBone, Angular, and jQuery Frameworks are writting in Javascript.
An Application Programming Interface (API) is generally a set of routines, protocals, and tools provided by a 3rd-Party for building functionality. Utilizing an API requires some level of integration to get the system to communicate properly with the 3rd-Party API. Some of the more popular APIs include Paypal, Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter.