Web

The world-wide web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, is arguably the biggest revolution for Personkind since the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439/40. From just before Gutenberg's dawning, when all written material was scribed by skilled calligraphers and when Cambridge University had just about one hundred books - to now, we have come a very, very, long way. It is now possible for just about anyone to electronically publish text, images, audio, and for it to be accessible to just about anyone and everyone else on the planet - instantly. Only rudimentary familiarisation of a computer and a web browser is required. There is so much information on the web that the challenge now is how to stand out from the digital crowd...

38tivity is ideally placed to create unique and imaginative web sites because we have the very rare blend of artistic and technical skills. We cover just about anything visual - art, photography, film, and animation - and we have the technical expertise not only to get the best out of these increasingly technical creative disciplines, but we also have extensive experience in bringing all these elements together to design for you outstanding web sites...

There are three main types of web site:

• Static
  These primarily give information such as details of you or your products and services with contact information and are the most common and cheapest.
• Dynamic
  These are generally driven by a database or information in files - both of which you, the owner, can easily update without having the full expertise to maintain a complex web site.
• eCommerce
  These are the most sophisticated web sites - being a combination of the first two with financial/order transactions as well. They can take weeks or even months to complete with on-going maintenance. However, they can be a shop front onto the 24 x 7 world - with a huge return on investment.

We also offer internet consultancy to help you with your existing web site - in areas like the following :-

• technical assistance - like making sure all your users/customers can actually see and use your web site
• security
• search-engine optimisation
• web hosting
• content management
• blogging
• technicalities like HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, XSD, Javascript, Ajax, Flash, Actionscript, PHP, MySQL/MS SQL/Oracle, Tomcat, Apache, web services