White Lion can be found in Austin, Texas. Our office is located in downtown Austin at 720 Brazos, Suite 400, Perry Brooks Building, Austin, Texas 78701.

Our firm wanted to emphasize or focus on being the best at web development. Since we offer turnkey web solutions we felt "Internet Agency" communicated best our proactive and detailed approach to delivering top quality web sites, web applications and web multimedia.

Quality and years of experience including clean front-end skills along with powerful back-end content publishing tools. Today's prospects and clients know they have one shot to make a strong first impression. Learn more about our agency profile.

When completing a web site, we follow a seven-step process from conception through completion and beyond. In addition, Project Notes is a dynamic online application developed by White Lion that enables you to stay in touch with all of your project documentation in one centralized place - online. It's secure and always available, no matter where you are.

The founders were seeking a name symbolizing strength, leadership, and integrity. The winning name needed to be "sticky" and easy to remember. After hours of brainstorming and as the team was going down the "animal kingdom" list, White Lion was offered into the shuffle. The name was an immediate hit.

With a little seed money provided by the founders, White Lion started building a client list in 1995. White Lion has been a private company funded entirely on positive cash flow for nearly 10 years, Today, White Lion proudly serves a wide range of clients in many industries.

To create the maximum results, today's Web projects require not only a professional front-end or GUI (graphical user interface), but also a powerful and administrable back-end (database integration and content publishing). White Lion excels at both while many competitors often only do one well. Our clients receive not only the graphical edge but also powerful content publishing tools. In addition, White Lion delivers full service options including hosting and online promotion consulting that will ensure objectives are met.

White Lion Internet Agency is an award-winning leader in custom Web development including e-commerce, Web multimedia and Web applications. Since 1995, White Lion has been serving a wide variety of clients, as well as supporting advertising, public relations and design agencies on their Web-related projects.

The "One Team - One Client" approach, a strategy we have sharpened over the years, allows for enhanced communication, faster execution, and gives a true sense of ownership to the team. While, each project is dedicated to a full team (account executive, information architect, project manager, interactive designers, programmers, and usability quality assurance personnel), our clients are in constant contact with one single person, the Project Manager, who "owns" their project and directs its every steps. We strongly believe that success lies in the details.

White Lion has developed research teams: each department constantly browses leading online and offline publications. We distribute new information through our Knowledge-sharing Intranet. New technology is fast-tracked through a systematic research and testing period. Implementation of the technology is carefully planned and executed.

We use a tool called Project Notes to reveal design ideas. Project Notes is a dynamic online application developed by White Lion that enables you to stay in touch with all of your project documentation in one centralized place - online. It's secure and always available, no matter where you are.

Following a creative direction meeting, our graphic design team will reveal approximately three separate rounds of prototypes. Each round may contain 3-5 variations. Client feedback is carefully integrated into each new round of concepts.

White Lion's goal is to optimize the slowest pages of the web site to load entirely in 8 seconds or less using the lowest common denominator connection (typically 33.6 dial-up modem). To achieve this, our team will develop a "size budget" for the graphics and functionality of each page. These budgets are monitored throughout the design and development process to ensure your web site loads as fast as possible. Compression software and best coding practices ensures a fast performing online experience.

Screen resolution represents the size at which a monitor's screen is set to display. White Lion will typically develop web sites to perform optimally in screen resolutions 800 x 600 or larger, which includes 94% of the end users.

Yes. White Lion offers a wide range of hosting options from shared to dedicated hosting. Some of White Lion clients may own in-house servers; some may have selected a hosting partner, others may be starting from scratch. Whatever the situation, White Lion will gladly provide hosting solutions to fit the needs of each client.

White Lion will work with internally hosted servers or existing hosting partners, and will provide hosting options that deliver the required uptime and performance.

White Lion can shoot, produce and edit 360-degree images and integrate into a new or existing web site. White Lion uses IPIX technology known for not requiring any third party plug-ins. Not requiring plug-ins makes the rich content more accessible. See some 360-degree examples.

Our multimedia team's expertise in Flash technology has prompted many organizations to trust White Lion for their interactive projects. Interactive projects include: product demos and comparisons, web and home page enhancements, games, tradeshow pieces, and interactive photography. See some Flash examples.

White Lion works with all of the industry leading streaming audio and video formats including Real, Microsoft Media and QuickTime. Our team and partners have the tools needed to take source files (e.g. uncompressed AVI's, MPEG, etc.) and convert them into the streaming format required. Depending on bandwidth and traffic requirements, White Lion can offer high performance streaming hosting options.

Since our clients employ a variety of web technologies, White Lion programming teams are proficient in UNIX, Linux and Windows environments. Learn more about White Lion's technology.

Our programmers first create a detailed data model. In addition our programmers place numerous comments in our code, which make it easy for other developers to make changes.

Upon completion of a project, all code and graphics belongs to the client. While White Lion owns the tools used to develop the project, our client-friendly contract clearly licenses all deliverables to our clients.

All change orders will be estimated as required. Based on the impact to the timeline and budget, the client can choose to incorporate the change order in the current phase or hold for a future phase. We do our best to incorporate changes as quickly as possible in the working project.

All project documentation from architecture to design comps are posted to a client's customized and secure Project Notes page. Project Notes is a dynamic online application developed by White Lion that enables you to view all of your project documentation in one centralized place - online. It's secure and always available, no matter where you are.

Project Managers will typically produce a production report each week. Additionally, they'll provide on-going project updates on your Project Notes page, including action tasks and project documentation.

Our track record of delivering projects on time and within budget is the direct result of successful project management. Each project is assigned to one project manager. This approach of assigning one full team but only one point of contact to each client, as well as providing 24/7 online project status, allows for simplicity and maximum communication effectiveness.

Today's fast paced and competitive environment calls for ever-optimized time frames. With every project, White Lion delivers a strategic detailed timeline that may range from two to twelve weeks depending on complexity. Rush projects with a tight deadline can also be discussed with a White Lion representative.

As the majority of users view the Internet with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 or larger, White Lion develops and tests sites to ensure they perform optimally at that resolution.

Each site goes through extensive quality assurance. Our quality testing phase ensures that all our solutions are compatible with the popular browsers we suggest for the client and his/her particular project. This may include Netscape 7.1 and up, Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, AOL 8.0 and up, and the latest stable release of Firefox.

We take the quality assurance of our web sites very seriously, and our entire team is involved. Web sites are tested on a variety of browser types and platforms. Task-based testing is employed to ensure that there are no usability issues. Automated tools are also used to ensure quality deliverables.

White Lion offers custom packages that ensure maximum web site uptime and immediately alert all necessary parties in the event of a failure. White Lion can monitor web servers, database servers, and DNS servers. In addition, White Lion can monitor web application functions or scripts running on a particular web page or on multiple web pages. White Lion web site monitoring can work as an additional safeguard to the monitoring provided at the data center or web hosting facility.

White Lion can perform web site development on an hourly basis, or provide a fixed cost based upon the project's requirements. For any project, we can provide an initial preliminary range based upon similarly completed projects. For fixed cost proposals, our team will glady develop documentation detailing options and associated pricing.

Our hourly rates range from $95-$135 for various types of work: $95 per hour for graphic design & html programming, $110 for Flash multimedia, and $135 for database programming.

With close proximity to the greater San Antonio area, White Lion's team can easily serve any San Antonio client in need of top web site developers.

A good portion of White Lion's client base is located in the Dallas and Ft. Worth area. White Lion has been serving clients in the Dallas area with top quality web development for nearly a decade.

Absolutely. White Lion has many clients headquartered in Houston. Even though we gladly meet face to face with our Houston clients, we can also do most of the communication for developing web sites over the phone and online. Clients in the Houston area can easily login to the White Lion site for 24-hour updates on their projects.

White Lion has been focused on web site development in Austin since 1995. White Lion is known for offering a wide breadth of web development services including front-end design, back-end programming, flash, hosting, and web application development.

Most of White Lion client prefer a fixed project price for budgetary reasons. Since White Lion's approach ensures detailed documentation, our clients know exactly what they are paying for. In some cases, if the nature of the project is more exploratory, a time and materials (billable hours) approach can be utilized.

Documents labeled "Exhibit A" represent all of the project documentation. Exhibit A will describe the services White Lion will render and is an intrinsic part of the service agreement. Each proposal document is labeled as Exhibit A.

White Lion delivers a customized proposal for each project. Proposal documents can include comprehensive briefs, a high-level synopsis of an existing or proposed web site, detailed site architecture, specifications, timelines and an estimate.

White Lion has an easy-to-understand, client-friendly contract that accompanies each new project.

As for many other disabilities, White Lion tests each site for potential usability barriers as a result of color blindness. All designs are tested for color and contrast using a black & white format.

First released in September 1996, Bobby was originally based on guidelines developed by the Trace Research and Development Center. Bobby is designed for developers to test web pages and generate summary reports highlighting the most critical issues effecting site accessibility before posting to the Web or to Intranets. Learn more about White Lion's accessibility approach.

In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Inaccessible technology interferes with an individual's ability to obtain and use information quickly and easily. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. Learn more about White Lion's accessibility approach.

In compliance with Fitts Law, White Lion utilizes some code called "form focus" as a usability example. By placing the cursor instantly in the first field of a form, the user doesn't have to remove their hands from the keyboard, locate their mouse and click the mouse in the field area. Note how this is done with our contact page. This example is one of many details creating a more functional and efficient online experience for our clients.

White Lion is a leader in the usability arena. Since our inception in 1995, a detailed list of usability guidelines and standards assures that architecture, navigation, as well as graphical user interfaces of all our solutions are intuitive and easy to use. In some cases, outside usability engineers and user testing is added for further enhanced end-user experience.