Products and services
Our philosophy focuses on broadening the reach of high-end and advanced techniques by applying them to areas of the market that have not traditionally had the resources to implement them.
Often operating with tight budgets and timescales, our approach of efficiently and intelligently deploying existing systems to solve basic requirments means we can concentrate on innovative and elegant solutions to new problems, always building our codebase and experience to the benefit of our clients.
With years of experience in dynamic web applications and Content Management Systems, we know all the tricks in the book and provide exceptional value.
Sector-specific solutions
Whilst requirements vary from client to client, and each new project demands new problems to be solved, a good proportion of the content management and workflow requirements of clients that operate in similar industries will be consistent.
A well-architected and scaleable system can therefore be redeployed to different clients in the same sector, instantly ticking a number of their boxes for the mimimum cost. With a solid technical foundation, we can then spend our time on the more interesting, bespoke aspects of each project.
Our first sector-specific application, Gallerysmith, is geared towards commercial art galleries.
Ad-hoc consultancy and bespoke solutions
The principles of efficient code reuse and elegant technical solutions are not limited to the sectors covered by our products.
We have extensive experience in end-to-end web solutions, with particular expertise in the following fields:
- Dynamic web programming
- Web design
- Web application architecture (Fusebox, Django, Rails)
- Database development (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL)
- Web standards (XHTML, CSS)
- Syndication and aggregation (RSS, RDF, OPML)
- Social software (blogs, social tagging)
- Intranet applications (integration with legacy systems, Active Directory, Exchange, etc.)
While each project is different and will involve different skills, technologies and techniques, there are some things that often crop up in our work. Our description of the techologies behind this web site gives a good indication of what is usually involved.
Hosting and support
We have teamed up with a leading third-party supplier to offer our clients high-performance hosting packages at reasonable rates.
