See also Commercial vs Open Source | Commercial Portals
We now focus on cookie-cutter portals for small businesses and professinal groups. We no longer do community portals as they are too risky and the customer does not have the money to pay for all the extra support they require for the marvellous site they want for practically no cost. Go figure! These jobs just become volunteer work on our part in the end. The aggro from trying to get paid for the pain and suffering of doing a very complex site is not worth it.
For professional societies, we install and customise such software as conference management system IAPR Conference.
If you are a small business with a decent business plan, we can help get your business onto the Internet selling to people all around the world or just telling them about your business or pet idea in a low-cost and efficient way. This gives you a quick leg-up and saves you having to learn all the new technology.
We code meta data to get traffic coming to the site.
We setup cookie-cutter Websites over the Internet and via a quick visit if necessary using shared computer and internet access of someone nearby.
All Websites require maintenance. This can be done as follows:
Add ons include:
Most open source tools are low maintenance. Large modifications are costly so we provide regular bills throughout our development cycle so the customer can decide whether or not do an update, just start again with something else or close down their site.
Add-ons must be small and simple with limited modifications to remain cheap. Any extensive programming such as would be required to develop a Yahoo! Messenger clone will be quoted for separately and it may be better to get off-the-shelf software for a one-off job.
No-one wants to pay full price for a really expensive commercial product but customers all want what the big boys have at low cost - an impossible goal to achieve so we refuse to do these enormously complex systems for a single customer who wants it just on a whim with no concept of the cost of developing and testing it.
See pricing and Terms and Conditions for how we do our costing and manage the project.
Contact us for a quote for one of the above solutions to enhance and grow your online business and technical knowledge. Invest in your future!
Created: 16 Oct 2002 18:04
Last Updated: 24 Sep 2008 18:30