Composition
Web development is as much art as it is engineering. More accurately, building software is a skilled craft, not unlike musical composition. Each work must be spontaneous enough to be unique but predictable enough to be accessible.
Want to write an opera-sized website? Prime Motif can help you break it down into its individual acts. Have a small website or design? We’ll get you up on the web presto.
diopa.net: Ruby on Rails and Google Maps development. Design by Paul du Coudray.
Orchestration
Manipulating the many timbres of the web requires finesse. Prime Motif uses tools that are expressive and efficient. Is your website a symphony or a piano solo? A fanfare or a waltz? We can help you find the right combination of software, hardware and design to craft your magnum opus.
A masterwork is just scribbles on paper unless there are skilled performers to play it. Prime Motif is partnered with great project managers, designers, developers and system administrators who can help with your debut, should you need them.
Redken: Ruby on Rails and Radiant CMS development in collaboration with Digital Pulp.
Common Practice
The Web is maturing. Weak, proprietary systems have largely dissolved into a common practice — web standards. Like the music from Bach to Brahms has the same fundamental underpinning but widely varying style, standards frame the discourse of the modern Web while permitting incredible richness of expression. Prime Motif embraces web standards and best practices.
- HTML and XHTML
- CSS
- XML
- JSON
- Javascript
- Table-less layout
- Minimal markup
The Morgue: design and Ruby on Rails development.
Thoroughbass
Just as every great melody is supported by harmony, great websites have solid foundations in software. Open-source software provides transparency and economy not present in proprietary solutions. Prime Motif builds websites with open-source software and contributes back to the community. To name a few…
- Ruby on Rails
- Radiant CMS
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite3
- Prototype and Scriptaculous
- Sphinx
Radiant: open-source content management system to which Prime Motif regularly contributes.
Manuscript
Prime Motif, Inc. is a web consultancy owned and operated by Sean Cribbs. A computer scientist in brain and a musician at heart, Sean has been creating websites since 1995 and making music since he was a toddler. Sean started Prime Motif in 2007 after working as a freelancer for some time. Sean is most well known in tech circles as the lead developer of Radiant CMS and host of the Radiant Podcast.
Feel free to contact Sean with questions and business inquiries:
- email:
seancribbs AT gmail DOT com - skype:
seancribbs
Sean presenting at BarCampKC, May 10 2008. photo by Scotty Moon