Our Design Process

Business? Pleasure? We can help. Whether you're a retail business interested in selling your products online, a nonprofit organization wanting to provide information to the public and your membership, or an artist wishing to build an online gallery.. we can help you build the perfect website.

Website design for small business, nonprofits, and the public safety sector is what we do. Let BSL Systems help you build the perfect website!

How We Design Your Site

Typically, we will design your website based on the following criteria:

  1. Develop custom-designed web documents, using Coldfusion scripting, with each document page comprised of various separate, distinct-purpose templates
  2. Develop custom designed MySQL database structures to accomodate your content information, such as images, downloadable documents, and other information that can be either added to, edited, or deleted at your discretion
  3. Develop a user-name/password access required administrative area which will allow you to manage your included database
  4. Develop all included site documents so that they are accessible on your desktop, tablet, and mobile devices

Why We Use Coldfusion

ColdFusion is a powerful platform for building dynamic, data-driven web applications, featuring its own tag-based scripting language (CFML - ColdFusion Markup Language) designed for rapid development, allowing easy database connectivity and complex logic.

Many large organizations (like PepsiCo, BMW, US Federal agencies) maintain Coldfusion web-based systems for its robust performance, security, and rapid development capabilities

  1. ColdFusion is primarily valued for its efficiency and "batteries-included" nature, which simplifies complex web tasks into high-level tags and scripts.
  2. Its tag-based syntax (CFML) allows developers to accomplish complex tasks, such as database queries, with significantly less code than languages like Java or PHP.
  3. It comes with out-of-the-box support for professional tools that usually require third-party libraries elsewhere
  4. ColdFusion consistently shows a lower frequency of critical vulnerabilities compared to competitors like PHP and Ruby on Rails in independent security reports. It includes features like Auto Lockdown to harden the server environment automatically.
  5. Because it runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), developers can directly invoke Java classes and libraries within their ColdFusion code.
  6. It offers deep integration with Microsoft environments, including .NET assemblies, Azure, and Active Directory.
  7. Its tag-based nature makes it exceptionally easy to learn for those already familiar with HTML, allowing for a faster onboarding process.