API
What is OpenID and should I use OpenID on my website?
Wednesday, July, 22nd, 2009OpenID is an alternative to the traditional way users log into a website. It is an open, decentralized means of authentication and access control, which allows users to log into several websites using the same credentials. These credentials come in the form of a unique URL. (e.g. myspace.com/username). This id is then authenticated by the [...]
Using Django as a framework for a complex websites
Monday, June, 29th, 2009Platforms like Wordpress can serve as excellent bases for sites primarily driven by database content. Occasionally, however, Wordpress can lack the necessary level of complexity needed by a web site. Using a framework like Django gives database driven sites the complexity they may need without forfeiting too much programming efficiency [...]
Your Complete Party E-Commerce Website
Monday, March, 30th, 2009 Your Complete Party is a website built for planning a baby shower. The requirements for the site were a straight forward design that allowed for quick and easy navigation to the store’s products. The layout needed to appeal to users that may not be overly tech savvy.
There were two major selling points for why [...]
CTR Print E-Commerce Website
Wednesday, March, 25th, 2009CTR Print is a full service commercial printing company that was looking for an avenue to build sales through the web. They had been successful at driving leads to their static website and were looking to take their site to the next level by adding the ability for customers to purchase products directly from [...]
Complexities of Real Estate Website Development
Thursday, March, 19th, 2009Over past couple years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with a variety of real estate websites. The majority of these sites have centered around Maryland, DC, and Virginia Real Estate. These sites are not simple brochures pages for a local real estate agent, but rather complex search engines such as The Best Home Seach [...]
Long & Foster Mobile Application
Monday, March, 16th, 2009Long & Foster is the largest real estate company in the Mid-Atlantic region. As mobile phones push the boundaries of becoming hand held computers, Long & Foster needed a way to offer their services to a community of users that found the majority of their information through their phones. Using PointAbout’s thin-client springboard, Accella put [...]
DROdio Real Estate
Friday, January, 2nd, 2009DROdio is a tech savvy real estate firm located in Northern Virginia. DROdio was one of our first clients and we’ve built a variety of both internal and external web sites for capturing real estate leads and tracking those leads from follow up to closing. All of the systems stem from our work [...]
Bonaventure Realty Group
Friday, December, 26th, 2008As owner and manager of a $290 million portfolio, Bonaventure Realty Group is a fully integrated real estate asset manager built around 40 years of experience in the industry. Bonaventure contracted with Accella to give their apartment community websites a facelift with a concentration on search engine optimization and lead conversion. The end product [...]
