Enjoy the web services of the Onika - consulting, design and development, and maintenance and choose web products that help you achieve marketing, advertising, and community-building goals online.

Onika provides integration between the 3 principle parties involved in a web project. We act as intermediaries between the sponsoring organisation, design agency and the eventual users, bridging the gaps that exist due to the disparate motivations, knowledge, expectation and needs. 

The management of the organisation understand their own business and the needs of the traditional market place, they sense the need for an online presence but possess little understanding or expertise of working online. They contact a design agency. 

The design agency understand the web although they are lacking in the domain knowledge of the organisation, and bring with them their own prejudices of how a site should look and feel. The eventual users are all to often omitted from the development and production process although their wants, needs and expectations should drive the whole process if the site is to be a success.

The Solution

Onika facilitates the production of a successful site by mediating between the users, the designers and the sponsoring organisation. We adopt a user-centred approach which prioritises the information flow from the users. 

This is used to:
1. define and refine the goals of the site. 
2. drive the content creation and the information architecture. 
3. drive the design and production of the site.

Our consultants can join a project at any point but the maximum advantage is gained from having the same team work on the project from conception to post launch.

We can assist with:

• Site planning and development

• Identify goals of site and how it fits in with the current business/organisational structure 

• Identify and profile users 

• Initial user testing - wants, needs, expectations 

• Assisting content creation 

• information architecture 

• copy writing 

• Site prototyping and testing 

• Contracting and liasing with design agencies 

• ensuring pragmatic use of usability and accessibility principles 

• testing each stage of the design 

• Technology advice - ensuring scalability, maintainability, reliability 

• hosting 

• back-end software options 

• Project management 

• project time planning 

• personnel recruitment 

• pitches and demos 

• reviews 

• mediation in case of problems 

• Final product roll out and quality checking 

• Search engine promotion 

• Site use statistics and analysis 

Contact us to discuss your requirements and to obtain a quotation.