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Consultancy

"The Internet is the Wild West. It is a constantly evolving standards-lacking mesh of technologies and interests vying to enlarge their sphere of influence."

Many organisations, even very large companies often fail to efficiently procure a website because they're simply not equipped with sufficient expertise to make the right decisions. We can review your current site or codebase and provide detailed recommendations and analysis of code quality and user experience. We can also help brainstorm and give advice on best technologies to implement your ideas to maximum effect.

Design

"Great web content is not created by people wanting to just get a presence online. It is not an afterthought. Great web content takes time, thought, planning, understanding and investment. A website shouldn't be thought of in terms of the replication of printed material online."

Our design team prides itself in creating first-class user experiences that are beautiful and user friendly. We also take our markup as seriously as our design - producing clean, efficient, semantic html.

Implementation

"From a purely technical point of view the serving of content from a web server to end users is highly complex and can involve many different technologies. Anyone who tells you it's simple is either lying or just doesn't know enough about their subject."

Our development team uses open source server technologies and languages such as Ruby and Javascript to deliver finely crafted first-class web applications. Once deployed we also monitor sites on a regular basis to ensure ongoing reliability.

Training

"The internet is at the cutting edge of technology. It is the most advanced and far reaching communication medium in the history of mankind. The paradox is that the internet is becoming commonplace. It is everyday."

We think that because we surf the internet we know something about it. This is true to an extent, but in the same way that people who fly know something about aeroplanes. Web applications like Gmail are so easy to use it's easy to forget the thousands of man hours and complex technical challenges that have been overcome to create them.

We provide training and presentations to those interested in improving their knowledge of how the internet works. In our increasingly technology driven world such knowledge is advantageous.

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