Website development

Looking for a new website or a re-design of your existing website? We can develop websites ranging for small brochure sites consisting of just a few pages to websites you can manage yourself via a Content Management System (CMS) - meaning you can add pages, edit the content and upload images to your site yourself.

We can also develop full e-commerce solutions to meet your needs as well as bespoke web applications.

We can develop you website in static HTML, PHP or Ruby - we recommend Ruby development for web applications and CMS systems, static HTML/PHP for smaller sites and PHP for e-commerce sites.

Our websites have the following benefits:

• Brochure sites
  We develop all brochure sites with the future in mind. Many companies looking for brochure websites discover that at some point in the future the brochure site needs updating/upgrading - we develop all brochure sites with this in mind - allowing for CMS systems or online shopping systems to be easily added further down the line with the minimum of time and cost requirements.
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
  Our content management systems are build around our own custom built administration system - this is a modular designed application, which can be published with just the simplest of functionality or can be published with more advanced modules such as image galleries and news systems depending on the clients needs. The system can be easily upgraded as the clients requirements grow.
• eCommerce sites
  We use some of the best open source eCommerce software available for online shops - this software is tried and tested by thousands of users worldwide and offers a great selection of features that is perfect for 95% of our clients needs.

Contact us for advice or to get a quote.

Developing websites in Ruby

Ruby is a core programming language that has been around since 1995, it has a loyal following and over the last few years has been used for developing websites through the Ruby on Rails framework.

Ruby development can greatly increase the speed of developing websites, and when used with the right development processes provides a scalable platform for application development. We choose Ruby over other programming languages, such as PHP, ASP and .NET for a number of different reasons with the main reasons being:

• Simplified development of complicated applications - The web based framework for Ruby, Ruby on Rails, has been developed to allow powerful applications to be developed in fewer lines of code. This allows developers to focus on the functionality of a website rather than spending time on the more mundane code like validating data entered by a visitor or creating overly complicated links into databases to retrieve or insert information.
• Agile development - the development process that allows for updates to a website to be rolled out swiftly and often, giving our clients website they want sooner while allowing us to turn around updates to the site and add additional fully tested features on a more regular basis. This helps ensure that a site we develop stays on track with what our clients actually wants.

To see a list of website that have been developed in Ruby take a look at the official Ruby on Rails website - here you will find websites such as Twitter and GitHub

Managed hosting

Do you want a website and unlimited email accounts without the hassle or worry of managing it yourself? Let us do the work for you.

With our managed hosting packages we will host your website, host your e-mail accounts and manage them for you. If you need more email accounts then just let us know, we will set them up for you and give you the login details as part of the service - giving you more time to manage your own business.