Technical

What we’re good at:

  • Graphic and web design
  • XHTML/CSS standards-based websites
  • e-Commerce (especially payment gateways)
  • Server setup and security (Linux/CentOS especially)
  • PHP/MySQL
  • Integration with ASP.NET and JSP/JSF
  • WordPress theme design
  • WordPress customistaion
  • Custom WordPress widgets and plugins
  • Joomla! theme design
  • Joomla! customisation
  • Custom Joomla! modules and components
  • Adobe CS4 (Photoshop/Dreamweaver/Flash/Illustrator)
  • Flash development
  • Flash video
  • Video production
  • Podcasts
  • CD and T-shirt design

We love Open Source software because it allows us (and you!) to focus on the design and implementation, rather than re-inventing the wheel.  Our favourites include WordPress – a phenomenal blogging and content management system – and Joomla, one of the longest established Open Source content management projects. We also use third-party commercial and non-commercial  add-ons where it makes sense.

We pride ourselves on our use of state of the art web applications to improve communication with our clients.

To manage our projects we use Basecamp from 37Signals.com. Basecamp takes a fresh, novel approach to project collaboration. Projects don’t fail from a lack of charts, graphs, stats, or reports, they fail from a lack of clear communication. Basecamp solves this problem by providing tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project.

We manage all source code using Subversion. using a web-based interface from Beanstalk. When you work with us we give you full access to your own SVN repository. This means that you have complete visibility of our coding and can download your code whenever you need to. We remember that it’s your business, your project and your code.

Subversion is well-known in the open source community and is used on many open source projects such as: Apache Software Foundation, KDE, GNOME, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, GCC, Python, Django, Ruby, and Mono. SourceForge.net and Tigris.org also provide Subversion hosting for their open source projects. Google Code and BountySource systems use it exclusively.

Subversion is also being adopted in the corporate world. In a 2007 report by Forrester Research, Subversion was recognized as the sole leader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM) category and a strong performer in the Software Configuration and Change Management (SCCM) category.

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