Web development companies can unfortunately be all over the place when it comes to executing quality development work for clients – be it in terms of graphics, features, functionality, and overall look and feel of sites. Clients are often pushed to their wit’s end when their vision for the site is not being realized. The constant back and forth communication about fixes and changes are not only stressful but also push deadlines and costs for implementation. Clients just wish they had a magic wand to create interactive sites out of thin air. Web development doesn’t require magic wands but needs a development team that is proactive, industrious, and agile. Bleap boasts of having one such industry-leading web development team. So when a US-based IT solutions company approached us in January ’21 to develop a website for them, we were looking forward to an exciting journey.
Founded in 2013, Jazz Solutions, Inc. (JSL) is an economically disadvantaged, woman-owned, SBA certified 8(a) program participant small business delivering customer-centric IT solutions built to further the mission and goals of Federal, State, and local governments. Jazz Solutions is based out of Ashburn VA, USA.
Right from the word go, it was an absolute pleasure to work with JSL. They were thorough professionals and gave the BLeap development team a detailed presentation of their business, ideals, and vision. Their existing website was to be taken down as they wanted to revamp it following their renewed objectives, goals, and acquisitions. The website we were to develop would be brand new yet retain key elements of the old site. We had a big challenge ahead of us. The key to any successful project lies in how well Project requirements, considerations, and limitations are understood and we knew that well. So we initially had multiple requirements gathering sessions with them consisting of meetings, questionnaires, interviews, etc. asking them what specifically their ideal site should look like. We prepared a business requirement document, established the functional and non-functional requirements of the system. With that our development phase was ready to start.
JSL wanted the site to go live within a couple of weeks. We dint have much time and we quickly put our experienced resource to the task – the senior developer in our team. It was a one-man-show from start to finish. The site was to be developed in a WordPress framework and styled using CSS. The themes and Images were shortlisted and selected after the client’s approval. The transition effects in the collapsible home page banner image were done by the developer himself and the expertise of a separate designer to do this was not sought. The developer even applied his creativity and came up with an interesting transition from black & white to color for Image profiles of senior leadership in the ‘About Us Page. When we demonstrated it to the client, they were ecstatic about it and gave their approval. The pop-up window for ‘Read more in the ‘About us’ page was efficiently written as a single script. The development was complete by Day 9 and one day was spent on end-to-end testing. On day 10 we went live and got the client sign-off! After the deployment, the client came back to us a couple of times to add more content to the site and we were more than happy to help. Typically, the duration of the other Development projects we undertook was measured in months. But due to our unwavering diligence and client support, we went live with the JSL site in such a small timeframe. The site was also designed to be mobile responsive.
The success of this project can be attributed to the fact that Jazz solutions already had a clear-cut picture of what their website should look like even before they came to us. Often clients fail to acknowledge that the basic idea for the project which is handed to developers should be as elaborate and accurate as possible. Else, things go haywire quickly with the developers implementing something and clients expecting something diametrically opposite. We were fortunate enough to have amazing control over the progress of the project and deliver successfully. We only wish we had many more such mutually empathetic and gainful engagements with our clients.