What we do
We help people with their websites—whether it is a corporate website, a community site, a mobile site, a web application—basically anything that fits into a web browser. We provide end to end services for both desktop and mobile sites, including helping you figure out how to get the most from your site, how to create an intuitive and compelling design, and create HTML & CSS templates using nothing but Web Standards. But to really get what we do, take a look at our design, mobile and web app services.
How we work
We believe in working 100% transparently, sharing everything with our clients as we go. We believe that a successful design partner needs to take ownership on the project, treating as their own. Meaning we only take on projects that we believe in. For more on our principles, read our manifesto.
Who we are
Fling Media is made up of the husband and wife team of Brian and Cyndi Fling. Brian does the design work, having built websites for over ten years, and working in mobile for over five. Cyndi runs the business, helping new clients and making sure their project runs without a hitch. And while there are many companies that claim to have started in a garage, but we really mean it—our office is located in the garage of our 1914 Queen Anne home. Read more about Brian and Cyndi here.
Some of our clients
Over the years we’ve been fortunate to work with some great companies, both large and small. We’ve proved our design and coding chops with partners like Adobe, Boeing, Classmates, ESPN, Napster and Rolling Stone, not to mention countless startups. For a complete list of our previous clients get in touch with us.
iPhone & Mobile Sites
iPhone and iPod Touch websites offer the perfect entry level foray into the mobile web. With excellent support of common web standards, a mobile website can be created in a very short period of time. So quickly in fact that we can design and build a mobile site for you in 5 days starting at $5,000. Contact us to get more details and you can take advantage of this exciting new platform as soon as next week! For more details, drop us a line
Cooking up Products
When your job is to look for and solve problems with websites, you start noticing some opportunities to be the client and create products for yourself. Its not about the money, but the chance to create something great and maybe, just maybe change the world… just a little bit. We intend to do just that, talking openly about it along the way.
Six Products. One Year.
We had this crazy idea, could we create 12 products in 12 months? We’ve built successful products in less than a month before, so maybe we could do it again… and again… and again. Well after crunching the numbers we realized that we wouldn’t have any time to do client work too. So we are going to try and build six products over the next year, no investment, no big teams, just a handful of good guys with a half a dozen good ideas. Watch to see if we can do it at sixsites.com.
Need help with your product?
Having problems with your product? We can help you out with that, we’ve been building web products for over ten years. We can help steer your product to a more user centered track, help get your product back on the rails, or build it from scratch. Shoot us a quick note and we’ll see what we can do to help.
Want to work with us?
No problem, you seem like a nice person—we want to work with you too. Just provide us with a few details of your project and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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Design Services
Invent Something New
Great sites can go unnoticed, especially these days. We can help your signal pierce through the noise, by assisting with the following:
- The goals and strategy of your site, making sure they are based in real user needs.
- The structure of the site, to make sure it is intuitive and easy to use.
- The design of the site, to capture the look of the brand, establishing trust and confidence in users.
- The technology, that code and content extends past barriers and gets into the hearts and minds of your users.
A laundry list of services
No two clients are the same, therefore no two projects. We use a customized approach for every client letting our experience and instinct guide us to the right course. We use a diverse array of tools to create great user experiences. Contact us for a complete list of services.
Refresh your site …and business
Maintaining your brand—keeping the design and content of your site fresh—to borrow the words of Carlos Segura, “is the personal hygiene for your company.” We help clients find the problems with their site and come up with cost effective solutions to get their site up to date and stay up to date.
Making sure everything works
From giving some free advice to providing reports on missed opportunities, just tell us what problems are and we can start suggesting some solutions based on the hundreds of hours we’ve spent helping other clients and talking to real users.
Mobile Services
An Authority in Mobile Design
For over seven years, Brian has been intrenched in the world of mobile design. Working with top brands to help develop mobile strategies, creating compelling user experiences on a tiny platform that is wrought with complexity. For the past three years, Brian had done extensive presentations and workshops teaching people how to make the most of the smallest mass medium.
From Tiny Ideas to Big Executions
The simplest of mobile ideas can get complicated quickly. We can help you navigate the waters, providing a full set of mobile services from initial product concept and market strategy to designing the mobile user experience.
iPhone Sites: 5 days/$5k
iPhone and iPod Touch websites offer the perfect entry level foray into the mobile web. With excellent support of common web standards, a mobile website can be created in a very short period of time. So quickly in fact that we can design and build a mobile site for you in 5 days starting at $5,000. Contact us to get more details and you can take advantage of this exciting new platform as soon as next week!
iPhone Web Apps: 10 days/$10k
The iPhone and iPod Touch offer a remarkable new platform for creating great mobile products. You can create a mobile web app and get it to market quickly, without cutting corners, as we’ve done before with the popular Leaflets. Just contact for more details.
Web App Services
Web Apps for a 2.0 World
Web Applications can be an entirely different ball game. Many of the same rules of traditional websites still apply, but Web Apps require a non-linear strategy, in both planning and execution. Using only agile methodologies we help you create a lasting roadmap for a truly user-centered product experience.
Designing for Interactions
Whereas Information Architecture is often about content and pages, Interaction Design is more about how the user performs tasks within your web app. We focus on mapping out how complex interactions will work, how they will benefit the user experience and create an intuitive and elegant web app design that looks great and just works.
The Power of the Prototype
We are strong believers that the prototype is a crucial deliverable in creating web apps. Seeing interactions on paper are great, but it isn’t until you can see them and use them can you really anticipate how the user will accomplish tasks. Plus it means your Devs spend less time with HTML and more time on the business logic.
Taking it to the next level.
We aren’t a development shop, but we do partner with top notch developers to help clients without internal teams get their products to market. Contact us to find out more.
Mobile Design
A Community of Mobile Designers
mobiledesign.org is one of the largest communities of mobile designers, serving as a helpful discussion list for people to share ideas, solve problems or just to connect with others.
What’s Coming
Mobile Design will finally be making the transition back to providing news and articles about mobile design practices, the mobile web and other tidbits. With renewed dedication we plan to make mobiledesign.org a free and valuable resource for the entire mobile design community.
Keep up to date with our progress at mobiledesign.org.
“Sandwich, Mass”
About Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. First settled in 1637, by Edmond Freeman who lead ten men through the woods and founded Sandwich with the stated purpose; To Worship God and to Make Money. Sandwich is the oldest town on Cape Cod. It was settled by a group from Saugus with the permission of the Plymouth Colony. The town motto is “Post Tot Naufracia Portus” which transleted in Latin means “after so many shipwrecks a haven.”
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Sandwich” will be the first product of the Six Sites project. It will be a mobile web product. It will be free. It will likely be available in Spring of 2008.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Sandwich” at sixsites.com.
“Yellville”
About Yellville, Arkansas
Yellville is the county seat of Marion County, Arkansas. Home of The Famous Turkey Trot. Yellville is located in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. Founded in the early 1800’s as Shawneetown was renamed in 1836 after the then Governor, Archibald Yell. The story has been handed down that he wanted the new town named in his honor and offered the founding fathers $50.00 to do so. They named it Yellville, but the $50.00 was never paid.
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Yellville” is be the second of the Six Sites project. The site is aimed at sharing information online, but with an entirely different take. It will be free. The goal is to have its debut in the late part of second quarter of 2008.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Yellville” at sixsites.com.
“Willacoochee”
About Willacoochee, Georgia
Willacoochee is a city in Atkinson County, Georgia, along the Alapaha River. Willacoochee is an Indian name generally believed to mean “Home of the Wildcat.” Prior to being known as Willacoochee, the town was named Danielsville after a family residing there. An act of the legislature in 1889, set the limits of the town as “one-half mile each way from the Brunswick and Western Railroad depot in said town.”
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Willacoochee” is be the third of the Six Sites project. It will be a slightly different type of publishing. By slightly, we mean it isn’t exactly a new idea, but we think we can put a unique spin on it. There will be a small fee, exactly how much we don’t know yet.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Willacoochee” at sixsites.com.
“Purgatory”
About Purgatory, Colorado
Purgatory Mountain, is 25 miles north of Durango, Colorado. The name Purgatory comes from a witty farmer around the late 1800’s who adopted the moniker for a nearby creek, a tributary of the Rio de las Anima Perdidas (the River of Lost Souls), dubbed by Spanish explorers for a group who disappeared on the river during Durango’s early history.
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Purgatory” is be the fourth of the Six Sites project. The goal of this site is to solve a very old and common business problem. While in limited beta it will be a free service, then transition to being fee-based for subscribers.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Purgatory” at sixsites.com.
“Squabbletown”
About Squabbletown, California
Squabbletown is an area near the city of Columbia, in Tuolumne County, California. Squabbletown originally was a mining area of Columbia located in the Sonora Mining District. Columbia, “Gem of the Southern Mines” was one of the richest and most famous placer-mining districts in California.
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Squabbletown” is be the fifth of the Six Sites project. This site will be more of a social experiment then anything else, seeing what happens when you give everyone a voice. It will be a free service.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Squabbletown” at sixsites.com.
“Punxsutawney”
About Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Punxsutawney is a borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, 84 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Punxsutawney is one of the most famous small towns in America thanks to a furry little guy named Punxsutawney Phil. Every year on Groundhog Day (February 2), thousands of people make the trek to Gobbler’s Knob to hear Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction for the length of winter.
Strategically Ambiguous Description
The project codenamed “Punxsutawney” is be the sixth of the Six Sites project. The aim of this site is to see if the web can revolutionize yet another traditional industry. We think it can and we hope we can pull it off. This site will be free.
Keep up to date with our progress on “Punxsutawney” at sixsites.com.
- Design Services Elegant, intuitive and iterative web design services.
- Mobile Services Experienced mobile design and development services.
- Web App Services Agile strategy and design for products in a 2.0 world.
- Mobile Design Articles, news and information for the mobile community.
- "Sandwich, Mass" Six Sites #1—The mobile web made easy.
- "Yellville" Six Sites #2—A different take on sharing information online.
- "Willacoochee" Six Sites #3—A slightly different type of publishing.
- "Purgatory" Six Sites #4—A solution to a very old problem.
- "Squabbletown" Six Sites #5—What happens if we talk at the same time?
- "Punxsutawney" Six Sites #6—Another thing to put a "2.0" after.