This is a breif summary of what we have achieved over the years:
This was way back in 1994 for a property relocation company in London. In those days everything was coded long hand - no website authoring software back then.
That first website was the seed that allowed our business to grow and develop into A Wee Click.
In 1998 we knew that the internet was going to revolutionise the way people shopped. So in 1999 we identified a niche market (balloon delivery) and created an e-commerce website to sell inflated balloons over the internet.
As e-commerce was in its infancy back then, "Off the shelf" e-commerce software wasn't available, so we built our own.
We ran that business for 8 years before we sold it.
During that time we learnt vital lessons that can not be taught in the class room or read in a book - like what to expect if your products get featured on prime time ITV shows, how to minimise the workflow of processing orders, the importance of making backups of data.
We can draw upon that experience in creating your website.
We created our own content management system* out of frustration. We had tried the normal "free" ones like Wordpress and Joomla, but found that they were really over complicated for the average non technical computer user.
Such free software often relies on 3rd party plugins and templates to provide greater flexibility and scope. So you end up relying on them being kept up to date by people you have no control over.
The average website owner wants to create a website that has different menus and the ability to create web pages and update them and not much else.
So we designed and created our own software that does just that. If a client wants something extra we build it and add it to the software.
This way our clients get exactly what they require.
Here is what can happen when a web designer uses the wrong content management system. A charity wanted a website. They chose a web designer who was local to them and was recommended by a trustee of the charity. The website was duly created using Wordpress, a number of 3rd party plugins and a custom theme.
It looked great, but it failed miserably - the web designer was unable to configure Wordpress to provide the levels of user access/restrictions required for each branch of the charity to enable them to update their own section of the website. At the time of writing this, the website is over 1 year out of date.
We now use our own content management system as the framework for creating every website we build.
* A programme that builds the web pages that visitors see when they visit your website.