Rapid Development Group

Rapid Development Group is a lightweight and nimble web development team focused on high-quality implementations of complex web sites and web applications. Rapid Development Group has broad knowledge and experience with a wide assortment of web technologies and specializes in the following areas:

Content Management Systems

Rapid Development Group specializes in efficient and sustainable CMS implementations and favors open source CMS frameworks. It has developed sites using a variety of prominent CMS platforms including Drupal, Plone, WordPress, Django, Kentico, Expression Engine, Interwoven Teamsite, and Ektron CMS400 and has led migration projects to help clients move sites between CMS platforms. Rapid Development Group has embraced the Drupal framework and is sought after as a leading Drupal development shop in the Midwest.

Custom Web Applications

The web is no longer just a vehicle for read-only content. Users expect to be able to interact with pages in advanced ways, and Rapid Development Group helps deliver on this expectation. Rapid Development Group builds web applications as complex as customer-relationship management systems (CRM), or as simple as cost calculation tools to highlight product or service advantages. Rapid Development Group is expert in languages such as JavaScript, PHP and C#, and frameworks including ASP.NET and jQuery.

Native and Standards-Based Mobile Apps

Rapid Development Group develops native mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices, often employing a CMS back-end to deliver real-time content to the device. We often can reuse significant portions of our standards-compliant web applications in our mobile apps, giving you a lower-cost path to the app store of your choosing.

Optimized Relational Databases

Rapid Development Group is proficient in designing, implementing, and optimizing MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases along with complementary technologies such as SQL Server Reporting Services.

Clean, Search-Friendly Design Implementations

Some jobs don’t call for a fully database-driven site architecture. This doesn’t remove the need for experts. Even if the content of a site never changes, it’s important to get the implementation right. When clients hand off a design concept for implementation, Rapid Development Group starts asking the hard questions. How should this design react to changing window sizes? Mobile devices? Screen readers? Rapid Development Group will ensure that the code is clean and bullet-proof, so that the message isn’t lost in the least forgiving of mediums.

Rapid Development Group was formed in April, 2009. Its developers have a minimum of 7 years web development and CMS experience and have long track records of successful CMS implementations and custom app development projects.