Developer: IAM Webs (OptoDesign affiliate)

AltaVision Plus and its patient care concept, was formed and founded in 2008. With over 40 years of ophthalmology (LASIK) experience among the founding members, their goal has been to provide a robust vision care program, usually only available in large metropolitan areas, to individuals and communities that are isolated, have demand that is not being met or where their particular services have not yet been established.

The Altavision Plus website represents what the web can do for such companies. For starters, their site features a hand coded, fully customized content management system that was delivered to them for the same value as a more generic Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal driven content management system.

What really sets this site apart, however, is the video faq located on the top right hand corner of the home page. With all assets created in house at IAM Webs using our green screen and video-for-web know how, the video FAQ demonstrates that communication in our modern age is more clean, simple, and accessible to anyone than ever before.

Without bogging down their clients to read excessive information about their services in addition to yet more documentation and paperwork clients need to read, AltaVision Plus answers clients’ questions directly, while engaging the user in a modern, interactive media format.

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The Gifted Children’s Association of BC was established over 25 years ago to provide support and advocacy designed to help parents and others meet the intellectual, emotional & social needs of gifted children and their families throughout the province.

Their activities are intended to improve parent and public understanding of the special needs and capacities of the gifted children in our families and communities.

GCABC approached IAM Webs (Opto’s affiliate) with the goal of improving their online presence to allow more efficient member services and a cleaner and more controllable presentation of current and relevant information, and to bring more exposure to the issues surrounding their cause. IAM Webs responded with the delivery of a comprehensive content management system driving a clean and inviting layout.

The project was lead and designed by Caio Prezia, while back end programming was provided by Linh Nguyen.

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FAAM Construction’s building more than just homes. They’re building an online strategy, complete with online marketing and site development.

FAAM wanted their clients to identify with their brand online, so they put OptoDesign to the task of creating a digital presence for them on the net, at a reasonable cost for a small to medium sized business.

faamconstruction.com outlines the company’s bio and presents its portfolio in a simple, clean, and accessible format.

The FAAM site formula is an ideal solution as an entry level site for restaurants, professionals, realtors, and other such businesses or services.

The Period of PURPLE Crying® is the phrase used to describe the point in a baby’s life when they cry more than any other time. This period of increased crying is often described as colic, but there have been many misunderstandings about what “colic” really is. It is a new way to help parents understand this time in their baby’s life, which is a normal part of every infant’s development.

The National Center for Shaken Baby syndrome, dontshake.org, has just lauched the website for this new and informative campaign at purplecrying.info.

The task in this project was to communicate this most important material to parents who desperately need some relief from the constant crying of their new born infants. The information needed to be presented in an accessible manner, so that parents would not need to overly search at the crucial time that they need the information.

“The Period of PURPLE Crying®” project was headed by IAM Webs with Project Management from George Papazian and Design Direction from Caio Prezia.

The term website is as broad a term as t.v.  So when a client needs a site, it’s important to determine what type of site s/he needs.

Diman Developments are contractors, a Vancouver based construction and development company. They didn’t need anything fancy, just a cool, creative site to showcase their great work.

The Diman site represents a fitting solution for small business at a very affordable price. The site features a fully customized interface, with a lightbox photo gallery displaying the company’s jobs.

Solutions for small business and big business alike.  This is what commercial web development is about. Determining the needs of your client is truely an art form that few development houses are able to master.

Melody Oshiro approached Opto with the momunental task of developing a site with an interface which would be clean and easy to use for people with learning disabilities. Melody’s organization is the Learning Disabilities Association Fraser South, and after 8 months of intensive development their new website can be seen at ldafs.org.

LDAFS provided Opto with valuable information to assist in the design of the interface. This information was the result of obtained studies for users with learning disabilities such as what typeface and size is best read by users with learning disabilities, which colours provide a warm and comfortable user experience, and specific functionality such as increasing or decreasing text size to ease reading.

With the content management system, The folks at LDAFS can now update the entire website by themselves.

Both OptoDesign and LDAFS wish the best of luck to those who will benefit the most from this project: children with learning disabilities and their parents.

What is a Learning Disability?

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

Success Stories

It’s not uncommon that clients who approach me needing a web site or application have no idea what’s involved in creating their particular project. This can often to lead to a bit of embarrassment on behalf of the client because he or she may not want to show a lack of technical knowledge (for fear of looking stupid).

It’s really important to get past that hang up because proper assessment of a project ensures that it’s lifespan will run smoothly. This saves the client money, and the programmer a lot of extra hours of unneeded coding.

When it comes to site development, almost anything is possible from the outset in terms of functionality and technology; however, the more you devote yourself to a particular path when developing the site, the more stringent the parametres become. This is intensified even more when budgets are taken into consideration.

Not to get to philosophical, but it’s kind of like life itself. When you are 20, single, and fresh out of high school, life’s paths are virtually unlimited. You could go to college, or travel, or start your own business. You could party, or get into a relationship, or stay single, or be in many relationships! Essentially, if you choose a particular path and don’t like it, it’s fairly easy to change gears again at 24.  But the older you get and the more you devote yourself to a particular path, then the harder it becomes to undo what you have done. It’s not impossible (though in fact some things actually are impossible by that point), but it is definitely a lot more difficult.

Site development always has a project life span. The more you devote to particular method of building the site, and the farther along you go in the project, the more difficult it becomes to make major structural changes late in the game without hours and hours of programming and designing, or just starting from scratch altogether. Later in the project, you may have less options regarding what the site can do technically or in its functionality. Asking your developer what is or is not possible at that stage never hurts either.

Essentially, this is where project assessment becomes vital. If you and your developer plan correctly and have a clear idea of what the site is to do in the beginning stages, you can really minimize this particular type of stress, which usually surfaces after the midway point of the project.