Black Tulip Digital is Chris Thomas's Company, incorporated in May 2008.
Chris Thomas is a rare skilled consultant with an unrivaled breath of knowlegdge about different Internet technologies and concepts, skilled in solutions architecture from conception to completion.
The incorporation of the name "Black Tulip" is a reference from the age-old black tulip story, the elusive perfect black tulip always eluding growers. Whilst being human our nature continues to strive for the impossible. The perfect web project may be elusive, however we should always be striving for perfection.
Listed below are the skills that Chris Thomas can offer to you.
Information Architecture
Planning the way the pages of a website will be structured within sitemaps and the elements that will exist on each page in wireframes.
Functional and Technical Specification
Writing client facing specifications understandable by a non-technical person. Writing technical specifications for developers to build from.
Accessibility
Advising on accessibility legality and best practice during information architecture, design, build and quality assurance.
Usability
Advising on usability best practice, creating user testing questionnaires, planning user testing sessions, analysis of user testing results and advising on usability improvements for user centric websites.
System Architecture
Designing modular, robust and scalable structures for systems to run from.
Database design and SQL programming
Database design and SQL programming
Server-side programming
NET, ColdFusion, ASP, PHP and XML following best programming practices for both reuse and efficiency.
- E-commerce
- Content Managment Systems (CMS)
- Customer Relationship Managment (CRM) Systems
- Forums
- Forms, surveys, polls
- Geographical mapping
Content Management Systems (CMS)
An unrivalled experience of designing and building Content Management Systems.
Quality Assurance (QA)
Creation of test scripts and use cases. Testing of the functionality, accessibility and usability of sites.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
A thorough understanding of Search Engine ranking algorithms and advising on changes to increase Search Engine ranking.
Pay Per Click (PPC)
A good knowledge of Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns.
Artificial Intelligence
Semantics
Many are talking about the semantic web or semantics. Semantic technology is a field born out of Artificial Intelligence and it is only now the need for accurate search/consolidation of information that has enabled semantic technology to be incorporated into mainstream technology. Chris Thomas is one of the few Internet consultants that has a honours degree in Artificial Intelligence. Subject matter includes - Search, semantics, neural networks and cellular automata.
Professional Associations
Chris Thomas is a member of:
- the Interaction Design Association