Developer-facing sites
Documentation, quickstarts and reference material treated as part of the product.
Website design and development for Seattle software companies, game studios, nonprofits, consumer brands, marine and industrial firms and local practices.
Seattle, WA, United States, served remotely from Pune, India
Quavento Technologies designs and builds websites for organizations in Seattle, Washington. We handle research, structure, design, development, content migration, launch and care afterwards. We work remotely from Pune, India, hold calls between 8 am and 9 am or between 5 pm and 7 pm Pacific Time and quote in US dollars.
A Seattle website is likely to be read by someone who builds software for a living. That reader opens the developer tools, notices a three-megabyte home page and draws conclusions about the company behind it. Even where the audience is not technical, the region's expectations of how a website should work are high.
This page describes how we design for the main kinds of organization in the region and the standards we apply to every site.
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Documentation, quickstarts and reference material treated as part of the product.
Security, reliability and procurement information where buyers look for it.
Trailers, product stories and imagery delivered without slow pages.
Mission, evidence and giving made clear for donors and funders.
Tracking and consent designed with Washington law in mind.
Built to accessibility guidelines, with small, efficient pages.
A fast route from curiosity to working code. When the buyer is an engineer, the questions are practical. What does this do? How do I try it? How long until I see it working? What does it cost when I scale? A site that answers those in a few clicks earns a trial, and one that hides them behind a contact form does not.
The home page states what the product is in exact terms and shows a real example, often a snippet of code or a command. A quickstart gets a new user to a first result in minutes. Documentation is organized by task, searchable and kept in step with the product. Reference material for an interface is generated from its specification so that it is never out of date.
Details signal care: code samples that can be copied in one click and in the reader's preferred language, a dark theme, pages that load instantly, a changelog and a public status page. Documentation is frequently the most visited part of such a site, and we design it with the same attention as the home page.
Reasons to trust you with their data and their operations. A large company buying software involves security, legal, procurement and finance staff, and each visits the website looking for different things.
A trust or security page sets out your certifications, how data is encrypted and stored, where it is hosted, how access is controlled and how to request audit reports. A page on reliability describes uptime commitments and links to live status. Legal documents, such as terms, a data processing agreement and a list of subprocessors, are easy to find.
Case studies carry weight when they name the customer and give figures, and are published only with that customer's approval. Pages for particular industries show familiarity with their regulations. All of this is content your team must be able to update without an engineer, so we build it on a content system with reusable sections and train your staff to use it.
Around the game and the people who make it. The Seattle area, particularly the cities east of the lake, is one of the main centers of the games industry, with large publishers and many independent studios.
A game's page has one main job before launch: to turn interest into a wishlist entry or a sign-up for news. It needs a trailer that plays without delay, screenshots, a short and clear description, links to the stores and platforms and a mailing list form. A press kit with logos, artwork and facts in one download saves journalists and creators from asking.
A studio's own site serves recruitment as much as anything, since talent is contested. It shows the team, the culture, the projects and current openings. Washington requires pay ranges in job postings, and careers pages should be built to show them. Video and large art are the challenge for speed, and we load them so that the page is usable at once while heavier media arrives.
Explain the mission, show the evidence and make giving easy. Seattle's nonprofits range from global health and development organizations to local shelters, land trusts and arts groups, and their sites often try to say everything to everyone.
We sort the content by audience. Donors want to know what their gift does. Funders want outcomes and financial accountability. People seeking help want to find it immediately, in plain words and often in more than one language. Volunteers want to sign up. The navigation reflects those needs.
The donation form is the most important page: short, working well on a phone, offering monthly giving and connected to the donor database. Annual reports and research are published as proper web pages as well as files, so that they can be read on a phone, found in search and used by people with screen readers. Organizations that serve people in sensitive circumstances should limit tracking on those pages, and we advise on that.
They sell on feeling, backed by detail. An outdoor clothing brand, a coffee roaster, a chocolate maker or a brewery tells a story about place, materials and craft, and the photography and writing carry it.
The site still has to answer practical questions. Where can I buy it? What is it made of? Where is the taproom or cafe and when is it open? Product information is complete and structured. Locations have accurate hours that match their Google listings. Menus are text, not files.
Brands that sell directly need a store, covered on our Shopify development for Seattle page. Brands that make environmental claims should support them with specifics on the site, such as certifications and sourcing, since customers here will look for them. A lighter website, with fewer scripts and well-compressed images, is also a faster one and uses less energy, which suits such brands.
They need clarity above all. Shipyards, marine suppliers, engineering firms, manufacturers and freight companies are visited by buyers who want to confirm a capability quickly. The site should state what you do, for whom, with what equipment and certifications, and how to get a quote.
Specifications, drawings and catalogs should be findable by search and readable on a phone on a dock or a shop floor. A project gallery shows work completed. Contact routes go to the right department. Many such firms have not rebuilt their site in fifteen years, and a clear modern one sets them apart at once.
Law firms, accountants, architects and consultants are chosen for their people. We give biographies substance, write service pages in clients' language and show relevant work with permission. Lawyers' advertising follows the state bar's rules, and the firm approves what is said. Health and wellness practitioners need special care with tracking, covered below.
More than many businesses realize. Washington's law on consumer health data applies to a wide range of organizations, not only medical providers. Information that could indicate a person's health condition or their attempts to obtain health services is covered, and that can include pages visited and searches made on a website.
A site for a clinic, therapist, fitness studio, supplement brand or wellness service may be collecting such data through ordinary advertising and analytics tags. The law requires a specific health data privacy notice linked from the home page and separate consent before collecting or sharing such data beyond what is needed to provide the service, and it lets individuals bring claims.
We audit the tags on a site, remove those not needed and set up consent so that tracking does not run until permitted. Federal health privacy law also restricts tracking on sites of covered medical providers. Whether these laws apply to you and what your notices must say are questions for your attorney, and we build what they specify.
Accessibility is built in from the design stage. We work to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at level AA: adequate contrast, logical headings, labelled forms, keyboard access, captions and descriptions for images. We test with automated tools and by hand with a screen reader. Organizations that sell to public agencies and universities will be asked for evidence of conformance. Our ADA website compliance checklist gives the main points.
Speed is set as a budget at the start. We limit page weight, serve images at the right size in modern formats, keep third-party scripts few and measure Google's Core Web Vitals on real phones. For a technical audience this is a matter of reputation as well as search ranking.
For the platform, we choose by who will maintain the site. Next.js with a headless content system suits technology companies. WordPress suits organizations that want a familiar editor. Documentation may live in a dedicated tool that engineers update alongside code. Our comparison of Next.js and WordPress explains the trade-offs.
In stages, each ending with something you approve. Discovery covers goals, audiences, competitors and a content audit, and produces a sitemap. Wireframes fix the structure of key pages. Visual design follows, reviewed in a shared file where you comment directly on the work.
Development takes place on a staging site you can visit at any time. Content is written or moved, redirects from the old site are mapped and your staff are trained. After testing we launch and monitor closely for a month. Most sites take eight to twelve weeks.
We are based in Pune, India, and have no Seattle office. Calls are held between 8 am and 9 am or between 5 pm and 7 pm Pacific, and between them we work from written feedback, which the time difference suits well: comments left in the evening are addressed by morning. The site and its accounts belong to you. See also SEO for Seattle, the Seattle overview and web design for US businesses.
Weeks 1 to 2
Goals, audiences and a content audit, on early morning or early evening Pacific calls.
Weeks 2 to 4
Sitemap and wireframes of key pages agreed before visual design.
Weeks 4 to 6
Visual design reviewed in a shared file and turned into reusable sections.
Weeks 6 to 10
Development on staging, content entered, consent and tracking configured, staff trained.
Weeks 10 to 12
Testing, redirects, launch and a month of monitoring, then a care plan.
Websites are quoted as a fixed price in US dollars after a first conversation and, for larger sites, a short paid discovery. The cost depends on the number of page types, the volume of content, documentation or media, integrations and any custom features. Hosting, domains and licences are paid by you directly. Care after launch is a separate monthly plan. We do not publish prices because sites differ so widely, but you receive a written scope and price before work begins.
Our team works from Pune, India. We do not have a US office, so every project is run remotely with a named project manager, a weekly call and written updates. These are the hours we keep for calls with US clients.
| US time zone | Examples | Call window |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern (ET) | New York, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina | 9 am to 1 pm ET |
| Central (CT) | Texas, Illinois, Tennessee | 8 am to 11 am CT |
| Mountain (MT) | Colorado, Utah, Arizona | 8 am to 10 am MT |
| Pacific (PT) | California, Washington, Oregon | 8 am to 9 am PT, or 5 pm to 7 pm PT |
Yes. We design quickstarts, task-based documentation, reference pages generated from your specification and copyable code samples.
Yes. We build on a content system with reusable sections and train your staff, so new pages and changes need no developer.
Yes. We organize content by audience, build short donation forms connected to your donor database and publish reports as accessible pages.
We audit tags, remove unnecessary ones and set up consent controls. Whether the law applies and what notices say is decided by your attorney.
We build and test to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at level AA, with automated tools and manual checks using a screen reader.
Most take eight to twelve weeks. The main variable is how quickly content and feedback are provided.
No. Our team is in Pune, India. Calls are between 8 am and 9 am or 5 pm and 7 pm Pacific Time. We do not have a US office.
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