Net Direct Systems
Located in Apex, North Carolina, Net Direct Systems (NDS) is a provider of enterprise IT systems and networks designed for the Commercial and Telecommunications markets.
They were in need of a site that could respond to the wide range of information needs of their clients while also meeting federal accessibility requirements. The site also had to communicate the key values of their corporate communciations strategy.
An ongoing issue for sites with a large amount of content and the need to revise, update and add to that content regularly is the cost and effort required to maintain the site’s content. IDW combined with Tookish Digital Communications to build a site employing a leading content management system combining it with custom templates, style sheets and PHP code. Training of NDS staff in the use of the editorial system was done using a combination of telephone and Internet real-time communication tools.
A last minute aspect of the project was a decision to spin-off a separately identified section of the site. Here’s one place where web standards methodogies pay-off. With only a few days to the site launch we created a new Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), built some additional database tables and code, and delivered the additional section within days of the launch of the main part of the site. The flexibility and modularity of XHTML and CSS had a significant role to play in the successful launch of NDS’s web site.