We have updated our web site hosting offers to provide a more transparent and more flexible choice to customers.
Option A: Shared Hosting
Based on a traditional shared hosting environment. This is located in the US with a large web hosting provider (Dreamhost). You get a ftp login (if you want to upload your own files).
This is available to clients at no charge.
Suitable for small and/or non-commercial, non-mission critical sites.
Option B: Secure private hosting
This is based on our own private server located in the Blue Square Data Centre in the UK. Because it is on a private server, there is no chance of a third party web site brining down you site just because the happen to share the same server as you (a risk with shared hosting).
Performance and connectivity is much better and data protection is guaranteed by EU privacy laws. Only SeeIT clients are hosted on this server. Access by ftp is not permitted to clients.
This is suitable for larger sites where performance, privacy and uptime are critical.
It is update time…
Following on from our last project we have updated our web framework with some enhancements and bugfixes. These are free upgrades to all clients. Updates include:
- Security fixes (both preventative and curative – ask for details)
- More efficient caching for images and for non-dynamic elements
- Many minor bugfixes affecting usability
- Better use of PHP5 features (although we still support PHP4 for our older clients)
- Updated versions of all third party libraries
- Lots of speed tweaks
All of these fixes and upgrades are backwardly compatible with older versions of the framework, and are strongly recommended for all clients.
We will be contacting you all in the coming week to arrange for the upgrade. If you have not heard from us by November 17th, please contact us.
In partnership with ideasgarden.ie, this site is an online directory of e-tailers maintained by An Post – Ireland’s post services provider.
This site is part of a much larger media campaign by An Post. This morning radio and TV ads went live to promote An Post and the new branding is to be seen everywhere. Needless to say we are delighted to be involved.
As part of this development the website code was subjected to a pretty stringent 4 day security audit by a third party consultancy – a big name third party.
So watch out for the An Post guy with the green tie – you will be seeing him everywhere over the coming months!
Frank Ryans Pub is one that many will be familiar with. Old Frank ran it for many years and it always had a lovely old charm about it. However for the past few years Tadhg Coughlan has taken over as landlord and he has turned it into something quite special. Several of us (SeeIT and partners) frequent it and we’re fans.
The website is technically pretty straightforward, and for that reason we decided to implement it on the Wordpress platform. However this is a great example of what can be accomplished with a little thought and some good photography. It is always a shame that people fall down on the detail and stick in stock or home made photography after spending good money on the rest of the website.
If you require pictures for a web site, there is little post processing required and no prints. This means that you can get an award winning architectural photographer like Philip Lauterbach of plpix.com to take your pictures for a lot less than you think.
We now have a selection of our web site work up in our Web Site Portfolio section.
This section is intended to give you an overview of what is possible, and of some recent work.
While most of our work is done for web design and IT companies, we do look at each job on a case by case basis, and if necessary we will recommend a partner company to work with. All work is done to order, so if you would like to discuss your requirements, please contact us and ask.
We are pleased to have been involved in the redesign of the Motor Display Systems web site.
It is quite common for web sites to begin as a small brochure project and to quickly grow to unmanageable proportions as they fill up with products, articles and other forms of content. Tom and Bernard of MDS recognised this and decided that they wanted to completely redesign the web site and it’s functionality.
Continue reading ‘Motor Display Systems Redesign’ »
Newly completed by SeeIT, in conjunction with Ideas Garden, an Intranet application for Leeds University Student Counselling Centre.
I am surprised that more traditional face to face services do not go online. Online counselling is something that I see as easily adapted to the Internet.
As long as you get the basics right (like security, audit trails, client functionality) there are plenty of advantages to this.
The Internet generation is completely comfortable at a keyboard and monitor. Apart from both counsellor and client saving on travel time, it is said that it easier to bare yourself online than it is in person – the . I know I would have a much easier time baring my soul to a PC in the knowledge that there is either complete or partial anonymity for me.
Continue reading ‘Online Counselling for Leeds University’ »
The Elevator (www.TheElevator.ie) is a satirical website based in Ireland.
Last year we were approached to do a small voting application for them to manage online voting for their Gooseberry awards – celebrating the worst of Irish entertainment. Nothing to it really – just a simple script with a database to handle all the votes. All good clean fun and some beer money as compensation!
What is great is when something like this captures the attention of the media: last years awards were picked up by The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner, The Irish Independent, The Star, The Evening Herald and the Irish Daily Mail! Check out the bottom of the Gooseberry awards page to see the clippings.
However this year the lads have really outdone themselves: yesterday evening none other than RTE’s Network 2 News ran a piece on the awards – have a look at the clip on the Ellie Telly page or click ‘read more’ at the end of this article to see the video clip.
By the way, if you have a similar project/mini application and a limited budget, by all means contact us and make an impassioned plea. If it catches our imagination you’ll get the job done for the price of a few pints or it may even get done Pro bono publico!
Very well done indeed!
Continue reading ‘The Ellies are on the Telly!’ »
The Dry Cleaning and Laundry Skillsnet provides training and information to their members courtesy of funding from the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment.
SeeIT and CIC were contracted to provide a web site providing:
- a simple user registration system
- private content for members
- a web site where the administrator can add and update content themselves
- a simple bulletin board/forum for registered users
The main issue here was to design web site that was easy to navigate and clear for non-computer literate users.
At long last – today the new website goes live!
SeeIT.org is built on our own content management system (CMS), using PHP and MySQL along with some excellent Open Source tools. Our CMS is simple, flexible and extensible.
Contact us for more information or to arrange a consultation. For more information, see our blog post ‘A Reluctant Web Designers Journey’.
