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Atlanta's top website design agency, Aktiv Studios, offers turnkey services to design, build, market and manage your website. See how our services can both impress visitors and achieve your business goals.

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About Us

Our team is committed to transparency, open communication and achieving a clear understanding of each client's goals.

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Our Approach

A proven processes allows us to provide you with top-tier service and bring life to your vision.

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Our team regularly shares their articles and tutorials in website design, development and marketing.

Our Approach

Staying on the Right Track

Discovery & Strategy

Before beginning a project, we believe it’s critical to have a winning strategy already in place. Just like mountaineers using past experiences to navigate quick-changing weather patterns and shifting crevasses, we combine due diligence with years of experience, creating successful websites to craft the perfect route for your specific goals, even within a competitive environment.

Information Architecture & Visual Design

Once our route to the summit is set, it’s time to start moving up the mountain. Live HTML wireframes lay out the foundation of the website, allowing the team to hone the layout and work together before moving into harder terrain. Visual and identity design is applied to the wireframes, completing the look and feel, while preparing us for the next leg of the project.

CMS & Custom Development

CMS integration and custom development is an incredibly important part of the journey, but often lacks the flair of the phases towards the base or the summit. However, this phase contains some of the most difficult and technical terrain. We pay close attention to make sure every detail is right, because this infrastructure will have a lasting impact on how you manage your website.

Marketing & Analytics

Once in Camp 4, the end is in sight. The majority of the mountain has been climbed, everyone is excited and it’s time to make final preparations for the summit push. Harnessing what we’ve learned over the course of the project, along with your long-term goals, we implement the analytics and marketing automation features that will ensure continued success long past launch.

Summit

Once all the final preparations have been made, it’s time to bag the summit. Come launch day, press releases have been sent, clients have been notified and everyone is excited. Pictures are taken and congratulations are given.

Redesigning a website is not an easy task, but once successfully completed, it provides a true sense of accomplishment. But remember, we’re still on top of a mountain. Our post-launch services are always optional, but they can be essential to guide you along your exciting new journey, which has only just begun.

Our Approach

Successful projects don’t just magically happen: They take hard work. But after solving hundreds of website challenges for businesses of all sizes, our team members have honed detailed systems of checks and balances that guarantee your project starts on a solid foundation and stays on track.

Your Guides to Success

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Decades of experience, along with our commitment to transparency, open communication and a clear understanding of client goals, helps ensure our projects create profit for our clients, not stress.

We’re so confident in our work, we put our money where our mouth is. We connect invoices to your approval of core deliverables-not how long the project has been underway. You never submit a payment until you are 100% satisfied with the work that’s been done.

The Journey Continues

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Performance management, which includes marketing, reporting and analytics, serves as the map and compass necessary to create a successful ongoing website strategy. Once that strategy is in place, our designers and developers consistently translate it into actionable updates to your website through experience creation.

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To capture the data necessary to create an informed long-term strategy, we leverage marketing automation, reporting and analytics tools. After project launch, we offer a fully-customizable range of post-launch design, development and marketing support to help keep your website fresh and performing at peak levels.

Without both of these core cycles a website will consistently underperform, which is why we build and design all of our websites with these principles in mind.

Rising to the Challenge

Our staff’s toughest challenges, and how they came out on top

Gary Steffins

Founding Partner, Creative

"With over 20 years of experience in the web design industry, my personal portfolio looks a bit like the Wayback Machine.

One of my biggest challenges was a surprise project from Intel. They had just launched a campaign to promote contributing to open source projects. Their marketing team had created a print PDF and wanted to somehow transfer that to a web-friendly version, creating an interactive storytelling of the history of open source projects for the soon to launch Igniting Sparks of Innovation website. With only this print document to go by, we went about creating assets from it. Tablets had just become a popular means of browsing the web, so this site had to look great on it. (We spent a good bit of time testing at Best Buy.) This would actually be the first responsive website for Intel.

Working closely with a great marketing team over at Intel we created a very app-like experience full of fun animations and interactive “easter-eggs” to keep users engaged, informed and entertained. The site was a huge success for Intel and is still active after several years."

Chris Kosiba

Founding Partner, Marketing and Customer Experience

"My background in web began in marketing and analytics, so I'm always excited to dive into projects where both are crucial elements. One of the biggest challenges I've faced was working for Kennesaw State University, the second biggest university in Georgia, segmenting and re-architecting site structure and content into more usable pages that helped convert interested students into new contacts for the university.

Analytics had revealed certain content was highly popular with prospective students, but they were having a very difficult time reaching it. The website architecture had grown too quickly and without much strategy, so we were forced to completely re-architect certain parts of the site in an entirely new way.

As you can imagine, this was incredibly complicated with a website of that size, but the end result was a much cleaner, easier-to-use website with smooth user experience flows and more conversions."

Darrell Armstead

Partner, Development

"One of the biggest challenges I've faced was working with Toyota and the Audubon Society on their Together Green Initiative, which promotes environmental awareness. My team was tasked with creating an interactive, talking dodo bird you could confess environmental wrongs to.

Being tasked with creating assets and animations for an animal that has been extinct for over 335 years and making it talk was definitely a challenge. But the result was fun and interactive and it helped Toyota and the Audubon Society continue to raise awareness about protecting our planet."

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Our clients have come from almost every vertical. While no two companies are the same, working with a variety of industries has allowed us to gain experience in what universally works.

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