This is the foundation of every project we do at The NINE. To ensure that your project is on the right path, gathering information about the business is necessary. Knowing the goals of the business is the key for a successful project to start and Sam and Andrya love getting to know what makes your business tick. Do you want to sell products, gather leads or just promote your services? Do you want to improve branding and work on online visibility? We research your target audience to find out if they are construction workers looking to purchase heavy equipment or 30-somethings looking to buy Greek Olive Oil. All the things are necessary to make a web development successful.

The success of your website starts with laser-focused strategy. Our team of experts partner together to create a strategy around what your customers need. We walk you through deep listening processes and use our exclusive AI tools to make sure your website shines online. You will meet with directors in design, development, content and search engine optimization while planning your strategy. High level collaboration with you and our team makes every page count.

We don’t use templates and we create everything from scratch.  We love designing and thinking through how a user will engage with your site.  Once we get to know your business and your goals, we can create award winning design work. Your site is the first impression an interested customer will have with your business. This is why it is so important to stand out from the crowd. When using companies that only do one market (lawyers, dentists, optometrists, etc.) your site will look like everyone else's. Not with The Nine.  Every client’s need is unique and so are the products we develop for them.

All of our beautiful designs are developed in clean, semantic HTML5 markup, CSS3 stylesheets for styling and JavaScript for behaviors and interactivity. We develop all of our sites in a responsive framework that allows your website to be optimally viewed on desktops, tablets and mobiles without the need to have apps built or mobile sites. The power behind our development is our server-side language, Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is one of the most productive ways to develop web applications out there. Custom software development has always been expensive, but that’s not the case with Ruby on Rails. Prototyping, test-driven development and scaling are all much easier to accomplish in a timely manner than with traditional programming languages.

A company's website is key to marketing the business. From the words you choose to describe your products and services to the images you choose to display them, each detail matters. Think of a website as your own personal storyteller, sharing the narrative of your business. However, contrary to popular belief, your business is not the hero of your story; it's your customer! That's right. Your client is the hero with a problem, and your business is the guide leading them on a quest to the solution. Think of your business as Rafiki from The Lion King. While Simba may have been the protagonist, he would have never saved Pride Rock without the sage-like counsel of his strange baboon advisor.

Our team crafts custom content to tell your business' unique story in a creative and compelling way that will keep them engaging with your company.

The purpose of the launch phase is to prepare the website for public viewing. This requires final polishing of design elements, deep testing of interactivity and features and, most of all, a consideration of the user experience. An important early step in this phase is to move the website, if need be, to its permanent Web server. Testing in the production environment is important because different servers can have different features and unexpected behavior (e.g. different database host addresses).