Cutting edge technology solutions are our core business. Each completed project
that comes from our Production studio is a tool that will ultimately help your
business to run more efficiently, communicate messages more effectively, or market and sell products globally and in real time. We take pride in the solutions we provide and are driven to continually achieve new levels of success for our clients.

Diversity is a powerful asset. Chicago Interactive harnesses the diverse talents, tastes and styles of our designers, allowing us to deliver a breathtakingly wide range of images. Our team's varying ideas and perspectives allow us to respond to branding and design challenges rapidly and effectively.

Consequently, our in-house and freelance staff is selected based on their very different approaches to design, permitting Chicago Interactive to provide a broad range of images (based on your company's needs). Whether you seek a carefully planned corporate look, a bold, graphically rich site, simple interface, or something edgy, we can create it.

Choice
Whether you are in education, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, services, or any industry, our diverse teams of designers and developers will produce a multiplicity of ideas and answers to your particular branding or business challenge. We provide all customers with a full-service approach, providing you several design options, typically from multiple designers. Then, either jointly with you or through focus groups, we evaluate each design.

Professional Art Direction

Our quality and responsiveness stems not only from our talented designers, but also our capable and multi-talented project managers. Each manager has a background in any number of diverse fields, be they marketing, database development, music or design. Furthermore, every project team includes individuals who have mastered multiple non-English languages, thus insuring that language and cultural barrier are a non-issue when coordinating our international design and development work.

Expertise

Design and Development
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
- Macromedia Freehand and Fireworks 8
- Macromedia Flash 8 and Director
- Carrara 5 Pro, and swift 3D v4
- Cadkey Design

Traditional Design
- Adobe Photoshop CS2, IllustratorCS2, Indesign CS2, other packages

Web technologies
- HTML/DHTML
- JavaScript
- Advanced FLASH
- XML

Multimedia
- Adobe Premiere and After Effects, Canopus ProCoder 2, EDIUS Professional
- Flash Video Encoding FLV files,
- Real Audio Encoding
- MP3 Encoding and Editing
- Sound synthesis, composition and sampling tools

Languages
- Perl, Php, Java

Other tools
Macromedia Captivate
Adobe Audition 1.5

ActiveX components
- product catalogue views
- shopping carts
- order forms
- transaction processing
- advanced search and sort functionality

Perl/CGI/ASP scripts
- message boards (with administration)   See Sample
- guest Books (with administration)  See Sample
- other CGI and ASP scripts

MySql Database