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"I need a site that does X, Y, and Z... Can you help?"
Alembic Laboratories can provide functionality to your site, far beyond presenting text and images and a message. You are on the web, not on a flat piece of paper... why not have a site that is smart, or lively, or interactive?
We can assist you by implementing rich and standards-compliant interactivity and application functionality to your site. Alembic is experienced with PHP development (the de-facto standard for Unix-based server scripting) as well as a variety of Content Management Systems (including the forth-coming, in house, Crucible CMS).
Alembic Labs also has experience creating dynamic, "client-side" scripts - Javascript that not only enhances the visitor's experience of the site, but also make a page into an inferface, rather than just a document.
We are, true to the "laboratory" monicer, a development lab for new interface technology - better ways of presenting and livening up pages without complicated frameworks or messy coding. Please browse around our various projects to see what we have done and what we are up to.
What? No Flash®?
Alembic Labs does, in addition to all the other awesome things they do, do Flash®. Although, this is not exactly a truism, more often than not Flash® is poorly utilized on the web. As such, we at Alembic Labs stay clear for its most common uses (navigation, interactivity), as well as full-blown "Flash-based sites."
In our efforts to make web documents portable, flexible, and accessible to all (including mobile and handicapped users), we feel that Flash® is better left to animations and video interfaces (with the advent of Flash Video) and not for critical components of the site's interface. With the rise of "unobtrisive Flash" (a la unobtrusive JavaScript) in the last year, broader, more standards-friendly uses are becoming more practical.
Because of our commitment to better use of web technology, we often find that programming with cross-browser (and cross-device) compatible Javascript and AJAX (which degrades and can function adequitely if disabled or inaccessible) is a better strategy than catering only to people with a standard web browers with the proper plugins installed.
Yes, Alembic Labs can and does do Flash® development, but when we develop a site for you, imagine what your site will do, rather than what plugin or technology it does it with. We will use the best solution for the functionality.