Website redesigned, expanded and re-released
9 January 2010
Our new website has been released for public access.
The on-going load of servicing our clients meant that we had not had the spare development resources to update our website since early 2003. It had been left behind in the technology dark ages! And it looked staid, with out-of-date content — definitely not in keeping with the look and feel of a modern website. Worse, it was designed for 17 inch CRT screens, which meant that the page layout just didn’t work on large, modern, wide format screens.
There have been many advances in the web arena over the last seven years:
- Raw HTML and classic ASP have been replaced by ASP.Net, simplifying the creation of dynamic web page content.
- Weird convolutions using JavaScript and DHTML have been largely replaced by ASP.Net menus. And AJAX has made the creation of interactive, more useable websites possible.
- Microsoft's Silverlight technology is achieving increasing usage, making multimedia enabled websites easier to develop.
- There has been a steady rise in the prevalence of on-line commerce sites. An affordable, easily updateable site is now well within the reach of most businesses.
- Most business users now access the internet via a broad band connection rather than low speed dial-up connections, enabling developers to build websites that provide users with richer, dynamic pages, streaming video, etc.
The staff at Tebet Business Solutions have kept abreast of all of these developments.
These advances mean that your business can have a visually richer website which provides your customers with more useable information, in a more accessible format, more quickly and at lower development and maintenance costs to you. For example, wouldn't a video showing the major benefits/features of your new widget be more appealing to your customers than five pages of text?
Since 2003, Tebet Business Solutions has also grown and broadened its service base:
- We are a Microsoft partner and a Microsoft Small Business Specialist.
- We develop intranet- and internet-based applications, rather than just desktop applications and databases. The news section of this website is one example of the delivery of dynamic content, without the need of recoding web pages.
- We monitor and support small business networks.
The normal slow-down that occurs in the software development industry during December finally provided the breather we needed to undertake the redesign and most of the re-coding of our website. Yes, there are still a few pages under construction. But, we have someone working on completing these pages as quickly as possible.
Over the next few months further enhancements are planned for our website:
- Tips and advice for small business owners and their staff.
- Over the years our development staff have solved many problems, the solutions to which could be of use to other developers. These will appear in a regular ‘Hints and tips’ section for developers.
- New products and bundling of services.
- Release of an affiliate program.
So, stay tuned and enjoy the changes!
The management and staff at Tebet Business Solutions