Need a Web Site or Application? Harrington Web Applications offers a fast, friendly and efficient service. I work for myself, have minimal overheads and quote competitively. If you are a Web Design Company and need back end programming or component integration, see the Development section.
Web Design philosopy is based on simplicity, ease of use and speed of access. A goal of the site is to enable users get the information they require or items they desire as easily as possible.
Websites are designed to be standards compliant and should run the same way on all modern browsers. Specific testing is done against Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
Any Web Site with changing content comes with a Content Management System. This allows users to update application content themselves.
Most types of Web Application can be built. Examples of generic functionality which can be included in all sites are:
- Bulletin Boards
- Embedded Google Maps, click here for a simple example
- Automated generation and sending of SMS and Email from the application
- Picture Albums and Slide Shows, top of this page is a simple example
Help with domain registration and creation of email addresses is included in the service.
While it is easier to develop Web Applications and Sites for local clients, projects have and can be completed through email/phone communication alone. This depends upon the complexity of the application and the clients WWW experience.
For Irish clients, half a day user training is allowed for all Web Applications. In addition to content management training, this can include other relevant topics such as the setup/usage of Merchant Services and Google Adwords.
All Web Sites are hosted in a good value yet secure high bandwidth data center. On completion of the project, the client becomes the owner and will have full control of the site.
Web Sites are submitted to Google and Yahoo. They are optimised to be search engine friendly and over time have every chance of turning up in searches. Web statistics are viewable for all sites. OsCommerce sites are tuned to get a good quality rating from Google Adwords thus reducing your advertising costs.
For further details please Email Paul Harrington on web@paulharrington.name or Phone him on +353766708455.
Some Background Information
- IT professional with almost 20 years industrial experience.
- Degree in Computer Science.
- Years of experience integrating Web Servers and Applications.
- Excellent database integration experience.
- Worked in Banking, CRM, Telecommunication and ISP environments
- Excellent understanding of internet and website security.
- Systems/Network Administration experience on a wide variety of UNIX based platforms.
Harrington Web Applications is based in Carrigaline, Co. Cork, Ireland. Send me an Email with contact details and I will ring you back. Alternatively ring me on either of the numbers below. The Landline number is a VOIP number and should be charged at local rate regardless of location.
Email: web@paulharrington.name
Landline: +353766708455
Mobile: +353863821017
Name: Paul Harrington
If you are a Web Designer looking for some backend programming to be done or an IT company looking to outsource, this page describes the development practices used.
Development is done in iterations on a local Linux Server running Apache and MySQL. These are then uploaded to the web hosting provider. This is faster than trying to develop on the hosting system itself.
Linux Hosted Systems are used and the preferred Server Side language is Perl. Development can be done in PHP if required.
Preferred DBMS is MySQL as I have worked with versions 3.1 thru 5.0,and have designed and implemented complex schemas. Have also performed varied tasks such as replication setup, innodb/MyISAM engine tuning and query cache tuning. I have worked extensively with Oracle over the years and can use that if required.
Can easily integrate Mail and SMS systems. Worked for several years in the Telecommunications/ISP environments (with LogicaCMG/KPNQwest) and have a good understanding of Mail protocols such as POP/SMTP and Telecomms SMPP/GSM standards.
W3C DOM, W3C CSS and ECMA Javascript Standards. Development is done according to these standards, except in the rare case where an item has become a de-facto standard and is implemented in all modern browsers. The classic example is the DOM innerHTML property which is too popular and practical for modern browser makers to ignore.
Only elements of Standards which have been implemented in all modern browsers are used. From a practical perspective, testing is done against IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox.