Who We Are
If you are looking for answers in consulting, application development, content management, resource augmentation, data management or any IT/ITES need then you’ve reached the right place because IBee solutions can be your one-stop-shop and you need to look no further.
With our well established quality processes and stringent standards adhered to all our projects, we ensure that our customers are always at an advantage in terms of reduced risk, increase in efficiency, and optimum resource utilization.
Our Approach
Design Methodology
We design a site that helps your visitors do what they came to do. Only then will they do what you want them to. Every element in your web design plays a part: The colours, the fonts, the images, the layout, the Information Architecture (IA), the menu positioning... They all either help or hinder.
We employ an informed usability design process to research, design and test the total user experience. It's repeatable, scientific and reliable.
- Your Goals:
We hold stakeholder meetings to identify the overall goals of the site.
- User Modelling:
We develop audience profiles, personas and scenarios, conduct user needs analysis, identify user goals, perform task analysis and set usability objectives.
- Gap Analysis:
If applicable, we analyse your existing site to identify gaps and problem areas in its user experience.
- Concepts:
We sketch some visual design concepts on paper, storyboard some usage scenarios and draw some sitemeaps and wireframes.
- Test & Refine:
We test those concepts and refine as required.
- Prototype:
We develop a prototype of successful visual design concepts..
- Test & Refine:
We test the prototype and refine as required.
- Functional Specs:
We write the functional design specifications for our development team.
Development Methodology
Having designed a user-friendly site, we set about developing it so that the finished product is as usable as the design.
- Code Site:
We develop your fully functional, accessible, W3C compliant website, as per the Functional Design Specification.
- QA Testing:
We QA test and de-bug the code, and perform cross-browser compatibility testing.
- Usability Testing:
We test the user experience for errors and bugs.
- QA Testing:
Once again, we QA test and de-bug the code, and perform cross-browser compatibility testing.
- Final Check:
We perform a design check, code check, functionality check, security check, then request sign-off for go-live.
Managed Web Hosting (This stage is optional)
Every website comes complete with secure, fully managed business/enterprise-grade hosting. We own our own servers and manage them ourselves, in a secure, climate-controlled data centre. This means you'll enjoy more control, faster response times, and superior uptime and reliability than you'd get from an "off-the-shelf" web host.
- One point of contact – You have only one point of contact for all matters relating to your site: Your IBEE solutions project manager. If you want to update something or upload a file, you call your project manager. When you want to add some functionality, you call your project manager. If there's a problem, you call your project manager.
- 24/7 proactive uptime monitoring – We have someone monitoring your site 24/7. In the unlikely event of a problem, you probably won't even notice it. We'll have it fixed before it comes to your attention.
- Appropriate server technologies – The same people who developed your site also host it. We define the actual physical requirements of the your web server during development to ensure maximum suitability and performance. And you'll never hear “our servers don't support that functionality”.
- We're accountable - Because we manage everything and we own the server that hosts your site, we're fully accountable for any problems. So no more finger-pointing and blame shifting; the buck stops here.
- Superior uptime, data security and performance – We own our own servers in state-of-the art data centres.
Publicize
So we've designed and developed your site, and now we're hosting it. This is where we get the opportunity to see how your visitors use it 'in the wild', and to refine it to deliver ever-improving results for your business. (This stage is optional).
- Monitor User Feedback :
We monitor all visitor feedback to ensure that any site-specific information is considered.
- Site Stats :
We perform monthly analysis of your site statistics (analytics) to determine where your visitors are coming from, which pages they visit, how long they stay, etc.
- Conversion Rate Analysis :
We perform monthly conversion rate analysis to identify improvements in site-driven sales/conversions.
- User Testing :
We capture mouse movements, record user visits on your websites, and carry out live user testing sessions.
- Recommendations :
We make recommendations for improving your site based on these analyses.
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