WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT & SERVICE


The CyberThinc team have website experience dating back to 1993 (pre Netscape and pre Internet Explorer Web Browser days), when the world wide web consisted of but a few hundred web pages. Consequently, the development experience within the company is considerable, and clients can be assured that they are getting the services of some of the most experienced website experts around.

The website development experience of the CyberThinc team is far wider than most, and includes development of websites to work on a diverse range of platforms such as the following: When CyberThinc develop websites, clients can be assured a high level of experience is being used, and that a client website will be optimised to ensure it downloads quickly, and that the testing will be thorough. We believe that going that extra mile in terms of service should not just be an extra service, but should be an integral part of the service.

WEBSITE ANALYSIS


Another often overlooked area of service in website development is analysis of the client's requirements. Too often, websites are just knocked out as templates, into which no thought has been given as to the most appropriate way to convey useful information about a client, or to market a client's services. This means the message the client wants to get across to those viewing the website is frequently lost.

CyberThinc ensure that we sit down with our clients and make sure their requirements are clearly written down and understood. We try to involve our clients in the process so that we can get valuable feedback to ensure that our clients are happy with the way their website is progressing. We ensure that any information we require for the website is clearly communicated to our clients, and we provide information to our clients as to how their requirements were analysed.

WEBSITE TESTING


A common problem we see with many websites, is whether a website has cost peanuts or megabucks, the developers fail to do sufficient testing of the website, with the resultant embarrassment for the client when the website fails to work properly in a specific browser. This is just plain sloppy. The CyberThinc Service includes comprehensive web code (HTML/XHTML) validation and testing on a range of web browsers and operating systems, to ensure that clients have peace of mind regarding the smooth running of their websites.

Additionally, where any additional code is required (e.g. for forms, e-commerce etc), the testing procedure followed is equally thorough.

Whilst most developers of websites fail to undertake the most basic testing, there are others who claim to test throughly, but do not provide evidence that they have - this can then rebound on them when clients find their website does not work in certain software environments. Rather than compromise a client website in this way, the CyberThinc service also includes a detailed list of the testing undertaken, and the results - ensuring the client does not only know that testing has been undertaken thoroughly, but also has a record of the testing.

The following test environments are the core test environments which CyberThinc use for testing:

Web browsers:
  • Mozilla Firefox 3, 2, 1.5, 1.0, 0.9, 0.8
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 6, 5
  • Apple Safari
  • Opera 9, 8, 7.5, 7.1, 6.0, 5.0
  • Netscape 7.1, 6.2, 4.5, 3.0 Gold
  • Mozilla 1.5, 1.4, 1.3
  • Firebird 0.7
  • Galeon 1.3.3
  • Konqueror
  • Flock
Operating Systems:
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • SuSE Linux 10 (Linux kernel 2.6)
  • Red Hat Linux 6,7 and 8 (Linux kernels 2.2. and 2.4)
  • Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, NT4, 98, 95, CE
  • Apple OS X
  • Symbian UIQ
Specialist developments have also been undertaken by CyberThinc to develop websites to work on web browsers such as Opera for Mobile Phones, running the Symbian Operating System.

SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION


With a cheap website development, it is not generally considered financially practical to submit websites (certainly not manually submitting websites) to search engines. This is equivalent to having a product and then not doing any advertising or selling of the product - a sure fire way to not getting much of a return, or to limiting success. CyberThinc prefer to work with our clients to ensure that we can submit their websites to major search engines right from the start. We want our clients to be successful, and will do all we can in relation to use of online website promotion, to provide customised online marketing strategies for our clients.

WEBSITE DOCUMENTATION


The amount of website developers who provide clients with documentation to accompany their website is so small as to be almost non existent. As with the testing regime undertaken by CyberThinc, the real, previous Rocket Science background of some of the CyberThinc team ensures that clients are provided with documentation to explain how the website works, what technologies it uses, where it is located etc. Now whilst a client may not ever want to read this documentation, they at least have the assurance that they have that information to hand, should they ever need it.

Having seen people pay for websites with no support or backup, and then see people get stuck when the developers of their website suddenly vanish, CyberThinc believe that providing a decent quality service which includes the documentation should be an essential requirement in any website development.



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