Form & Function The effective combination of creative and technical skills. Software & Systems Design Our back-end work in eCommerce, databases, scripting and other server-side operations. Graphic & Interface Design Bringing classical graphic design skills to new media. Multimedia & Interactive Design Enhancing the web with audio, video, Flash animation and interactive entertainment. Content Management Keeping your web site up to date: a focused approach. Unifying Web & Print Beyond the web: harmonised design in print and on-screen. Designing for Search Engines How HomePage optimises site designs to gain search-engine hits.

When HomePage started to build web sites in 1995, the only realistic things you could put on a web page were text and still images.

Since then, more powerful PCs and faster Internet connections mean that full-motion video and highly interactive interfaces are common site features, and we're keen to offer our clients such facilities for their sites.

Our services in this area include:

Video We have extensive experience in encoding and serving full-motion video via the web. We employ streaming services which allow worldwide delivery at constant data rates, and as a matter of course we now encode our video projects using all three of the major playback media: Real Player, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player. In short, we can enhance your site with high-quality video in a format suitable for all users, all platforms, and all connection speeds.

Audio For musical, spoken-word and other pure audio content, we can encode and deliver using Real, QuickTime and Windows Media Player formats, as well as offering an MP3 conversion and download service. We can even mix unique sound loops which can be used to give your site its own 'flavour'.

Flash Useful for a wide variety of presentations - including simple animated advertising banners, games, demonstrations of software or procedures, and right up to complete entertainment experiences - Flash has become the standard for high-impact web content. Our Flash skills are highly creative and with an emphasis on fast downloads. We also promise not to persuade you to use Flash when in fact it would just annoy users and be a barrier to them getting the content they require.

Live information feeds HomePage has broad experience of Macromedia Generator, which allows us to create graphics in Flash, JPEG or GIF format whose content is based on information from the user, a database, a live information feed, in fact just about any piece of data that can be supplied to the web server. Practical applications include graphs/charts, maps, stock tickers, graphical news headlines, time-based content and more.

Surround photography For projects where it's important to give site visitors a real-world view of an object or space, our surround photography service provides QuickTime VR files via the web, which allows the production of virtual tours and "examinable" objects.

If your web project needs a touch of something 'different', why not drop us a line for a free assessment of how we can help you?