Zivtech

In short

Zivtech is a Philadelphia web design and development agency, working from Walnut Street since 2008, and its specialty is open-source platforms: Drupal first, WordPress second. Clients usually arrive when an aging CMS is holding them back, and the team handles the audit, redesign, migration and long-term support in one place. Accessibility is a named service line of its own. That technical streak puts it at #7 on our Philadelphia list.

The portfolio is mostly universities, research institutes and nonprofits. Zivtech first came to the Institute for Advanced Study in 2016 to repair another vendor's broken Drupal 7 front end, supported the site for years, then folded 12 separate domains into one ias.edu platform. It rebuilt the Law School Admission Council site to WCAG 2.0 AA after a full content audit, and moved the Science History Institute from Drupal 7 to WordPress.

Education, cultural and public-health organizations with a lot of content, strict accessibility duties and a lean budget are the clients it suits; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Temple and Rutgers are on the list. The projects tend to become multi-year support relationships. If the main need is a new brand identity or a campaign-led marketing site, a branding studio will be a closer match.