our approach

• information management
• designing for usability
• appropriate technical solutions
• open source
• open standards

information management

We organise the information used by you and your customers - ensuring it is current, concise, relevant and easy to maintain.

Out of date information presents a poor image of your organisation. We understand that it is easy to become so busy that maintaining and keeping a site up to date is impossible. Our proactive approach makes it our responsibility to consult with you and make the changes required. We will suggest additions to enhance the profile of your organisation.

We can help identify strengths and weaknesses in your competitors' online presence and use this knowledge to improve your website.

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designing for usability

We design solutions that everybody can learn, use and enjoy.

By focusing on how people will interact with your website, we can create sites that your customers can use more easily.

A user-centric design process involves real users in the design of your website, ensuring it meets their needs.

We locate the areas of a website that people have particular problems with by performing usability testing. We can then recommend solutions to make the site easier to use.

We also create accessible designs that enable people with physical and cognitive disabilities to use your site - ensuring that it is open to all.

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appropriate technical solutions

We use the most appropriate technology to meet your requirements, not the most hyped.

We exploit open standards and open source software to implement economical and reliable systems quickly.

We will work with your company's existing technologies where appropriate. We will advise against needless change if your existing information systems can be modified to cope with your new requirements.

We don't feel that blinding the client with technological terms makes us look professional and in control of our projects. We will always explain anything you are unfamiliar with.

Our aim is to use technology to open your business to as many people as possible.

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open source

Open source promotes software quality and reliability. It does this by supporting the independent peer review and rapid evolution of software source code.

Using open source software can:

• give you lower overheads
• prevent you being dependent on a single software supplier
• enable the fast implementation of effective software solutions

If you are interested in find out more about open source contact us or look at the information on opensource.org.

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open standards

Open standards are industry and vendor neutral. Everybody can build software using open standards without paying licencing fees or infringing intellectual property rights.

We believe that open standards:

• provide the widest range of choices
• provide a high degree of compatability between products
• are adopted widely and have a longer lifetime than proprietary standards

Everyday internet technologies like e-mail and the World Wide Web are built using open standards.

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