Monsoon Media is a digital design firm specializing in web and graphic design. We are all about building intuitive, responsive, and accessible websites, as well as producing designs from scratch or within the bounds of your brand guidelines.
Toolkit
Here is a number of technologies that we at Monsoon implement to create and execute beautiful designs for our clients.
WordPress
We are big proponents of the worlds foremost open-source content management system. Custom themes are our bread and butter with fully realized custom post types, custom meta data, and extended search functionality.
HTML 5
Every good building needs a strong foundation, and every good site needs a solid structure. We strive to write SEO friendly, semantic markup to ensure a solid base and appear at the top of the rankings.
CSS3
We use flexbox and grid to produce responsive mobile first designs that scale to large screens elegantly. We labor tirelessly to ensure our transitions don’t feel too jumpy and elements glide gracefully around the screen.
PHP
We use PHP to do all the heavy lifting in our WordPress custom themes. We make use of built in WordPress functions, hooks, tags, filters, and custom templates to pull from our database.
JavaScript
We leverage JavaScript for a number of different uses including but not limited to; basic DOM manipulation, page animations, event handlers and listeners, AJAX requests
jQuery
We use jQuery to simplify a lot of our JavaScript code, making it more readable and easier to maintain.
MySQL
MySQL is the basis for all of our interaction with our websites databases. Sometimes its as simple and querying the database and sometimes it’s as fancy as extending WordPress’ search functionality to include your custom post types.
SASS
SASS streamlines the styling process allowing us to write short readable code and shortening the time it takes to debug any styling issues that arise.
NPM
NPM grants us access to a large library of code that’s useful for speeding up our workflow and testing cross browser compatibility.
Gulp
Gulp is our task automation workhorse, from processing our SASS files to optimizing our images, to automatically reloading browsers after files are updated.
Adobe Creative Suite
Not a day passes where we aren’t creating art assets and wire-framing designs in Photoshop and Illustrator. Taking raster images to create vector files or vise-versa. We also edit video in Premiere Pro and occasionally dabble in After Effects when the need arises.
Git
Git is our version control of choice primarily for hosting WordPress themes in remote repositories and the ability to branch for testing experimental features.
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