Development Services

We have experience in delivering effective applications in the areas of:

  • content management
  • web-based multimedia
  • membership databases
  • staff/volunteer directories
  • intranets and extranets
  • tools for online communities
  • online shops
  • customised web applications
  • application hosting, especially Zope and Plone
  • associated services such as email and online shops
  • assistance with business specifications and tenders

Business analysis

Before you start a project, it is a prudent to undergo a thorough analysis of the requirements and to understand the breadth of what various systems are capable of. We can help you put your ideas down onto paper and into a form that developers can understand, and must comply with, even if you are not the slightest bit IT literate.

It is not uncommon for clients come to us with broken or incomplete websites because they could not get the developers to build what they really needed. Essentially, they ended up paying for the site twice - once to have it built and once to have it fixed by us, or even rebuilt from scratch. We felt immensely sorry for these people - often shoestring-budget non-profits, and so we provide this service to try to prevent this happening to others.

Hosting and support

We often provide customised hosting and support to our clients, catering for a wide variety of needs. Hosting is on Linux servers housed in secure, enterprise-quality data centres. Read more ...