Technology

Let us worry about the labyrinth of technologies so that you can focus on other areas of your business.

We specialise in the following technologies:

We specialise in the installation of Content Management Systems for our clients. This allows them to update their own website at their leisure. When it comes to chosing a CMS we discuss with our clients what the best option is for them.

We are experienced in installing our own CMS and a vast range of third party installations such as Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, Mambo and osCommerce.

HTML5 is the latest iteration of the World Wide Web markup programming language and CSS3 allows for the styling of generated pages. Several new tags are available to us to ensure greater consistency between devices. Therefore it is essentially easier to make a Web site compatible with, for example, mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.

PHP is essentially a programming language designed for the web. The code we write is processed via a Web server with the PHP processor installed and can thus be used to generate dynamic content. Within the PHP language we make use of common programming methodologies such as Object Oriented design. We now also specialise in programming in the Zend Framework as it comes with useful libraries and prevents us from reinventing the wheel as areas such as security are well established.

MySQL is perhaps the most commonly used relational database management system in the world. Popular Web sites such as Facebook use this RDBMS as their backend to store their data. We like it as it is fast, simple and does everything we need it to do including for example dealing with transactions.

JavaScript is another Web programming language, however it executes usually on the client side. It can be used to enhance the visitor's experience. We would make use of it to for example react to user interaction events (clicks and mouse movements). These days we often make use of JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to get desired objectives done a lot quicker.

Ajax is not a programming language. The term usually refers to a group of languages and methodologies to achieve interactive content and avoiding repeated page loading. It can be more complicated programming sections of a Web site using Ajax however when appropriate the results can provide for a more user friendly experience therefore we like it and use it.