NetStart Consulting has expertise in the following areas.

Accessibility Auditing

• Evaluate websites, web content and web applications for compliance with international web accessibility requirements

Assistive Technology

• Assessment
• Technology research, selection and implementation
• Training

User Interface Design/Evaluation

• Task analysis, scenario development
• Interaction Design: Web, GUIs
• Prototyping: storyboards, HTML, Java
• Usability Evaluation: heuristic, think aloud techniques, co-discovery
• Web Accessibility Evaluation: based on the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative

Web Development

• Requirements analysis
• Design: software architecture, information architecture, interaction
• Server Installation: Apache, Jakarta-Tomcat, IIS
• CGI programming: Perl
• Java Programming: applets, applications, servlets, servers, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Server Pages, Java Server Faces
• Database Integration: SQL (Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL), JDBC, DBM, flat files
• Advanced HTML: Javascript/AJAX, XML, CSS, forms
• Applications: content management, e-commerce, member-only areas, full-text search engines, discussion/chat groups
• Collaborative Applications (discussion forums): WIKIs, Blogs
• Tools: document conversion, log file analysis
• Secure on-line transactions using SSL, Cybercash, Cryptography

Software Development

• Languages: Java, Perl, C, Javascript
• Java Libraries: JavaBeans, Java 2D, JDBC, Java Servlets, JSF, Apache Struts, Enterprise Java Beans, JPA, SAX, DOM, JAXP, JavaMail, JavaHelp, Charting/Graphing
• Other Libraries: various databases, TCP/IP
• BPM: Appian
• Requirements analysis, process modelling, data modelling, database design, rapid prototyping, object oriented analysis and design, UML, Agile methodologies

Infrastructure Monitoring

• Network, Server and Application health monitoring
• ITIL Incident, Problem, Change and Configuration Management

Network Analysis

• Topology design, router configuration, firewall setup, security issues
• Internet Service Provider/Web Hosting Provider selection
• Network hardware/software configuration
• Mail/News Server & Gateway Installation: Sendmail, Usenet, INN, Proxy Server

System Administration

• Systems: Unix (Solaris, Linux, HPUX, IRIX, NetBSD, SunOS), Windows
• Backups, hardware installation, user account management
• System Integration: software installation, tool development to integrate third party software

Training

• Course Development
• Instruction: Java programming, HTML authoring, CGI scripting, Large scale web application architecture, Accessible web site design

Research

• Product niche analysis
• Technology selection and forecasting
• Competitive site analysis