Technology

SilverStripe

SilverStripe is a free, New Zealand made, open source Content Management System (CMS) and Framework for creating and maintaining websites and web applications. It provides an out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website.

SilverStripe CMS is intuitive. Little time is needed for training, which for any organisation is essential. Updates are fast as we are happy to allow multiple content authors to edit content.

If you want more information go to the SilverStripe Organisation website.

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.

WordPress was used by more than 27.5% of the top 10 million websites as of February 2017. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.

If you want more information go to the WordPress Foundation website.

Prestashop ecommerce

PrestaShop is a free, open source e-commerce solution. The software is published under the Open Software License (OSL). It is written in the PHP programming language with support for the MySQL database management system.

PrestaShop is currently used by 250,000 shops worldwide and is available in 60 different languages.

If you want more information go to the Prestashop website.

Facebook Advertising

Advertising on Facebook makes it easy to find the right people, capture their attention and get results.

Millions of businesses already use Facebook.

If you want more information go to the Facebook Advertising website.

Google Adwords

Google AdWords is an online advertising service developed by Google, where advertisers pay to display brief advertising copy, product listings, and video content within the Google ad network to web users.

Be seen by customers at the very moment that they’re searching on Google for the things you offer. And only pay when they click to visit your website or call.

If you want more information go to the Google Adwords website.

MailChimp Marketing automation

MailChimp is a marketing automation platform, an email marketing service and a trading name of its operator, Rocket Science Group, an American company founded in 2001.

MailChimp began as a paid service and added a freemium option in 2009.. Within a year its user base had grown from 85,000 to 450,000. By June 2014, it was sending over 10 billion emails per month on behalf of its users.

If you want more information go to the MailChimp website.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML- and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Bootstrap, originally named Twitter Blueprint, was developed by Mark Otto, and Jacob Thornton at Twitter as a framework to encourage consistency across internal tools. Before Bootstrap, various libraries were used for interface development, which led to inconsistencies and a high maintenance burden.

HTML5

HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.

It is a new version of the language HTML, with new elements, attributes, and behaviors, and a larger set of technologies that allows the building of more diverse and powerful Web sites and applications.

CSS3

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language.

Although most often used to set the visual style of web pages, user interfaces written in HTML and XHTML, and is applicable to rendering in speech, or on other media.

Along with HTML and JavaScript, CSS is a cornerstone technology used by most websites to create visually engaging webpages, user interfaces for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin.

jQuery's syntax is designed to make it easier to navigate a document, create animations, handle events, and develop Ajax applications. The modular approach to the jQuery library allows the creation of powerful dynamic web pages and Web applications.

LAMP

LAMP is an archetypal model of web service stacks, named as an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language. The LAMP components are largely interchangeable and not limited to the original selection. As a solution stack, LAMP is suitable for building dynamic web sites and web applications.