Web Development

Designer

Olive Net offers a full range of web software development services for clients of all sizes. Our experience spans small business portals to e-commerce systems for large blue-chip companies, and of course includes the development of our own community websites.

Please browse our web design pages for case studies and examples of our work, and have a look at our portfolio page to see some or our past work.


What makes Olive Net different?

  • We use the direct, honest and plain-language approach of the military. We don't baffle customers with techno-speak.
  • Unlike most web design agencies, we have primarily developed websites for our own use. This gives us the customer and user's view of our work. The result? Secure, high quality websites that work, and not the over-complex and over-priced systems that are all too common in the web industry.
  • We started small and on a tight budget. We are therefore very experienced in the use of high-quality but often free web software, the use of cheaper offshore developers and achieving low administrative overheads.
  • Our experience is broad: sophisticated custom applications, e-commerce, search engine optimization, server administration, community websites and content management systems.

Qualifications and Technologies

All three Olive Net directors hold Masters' Degrees in Information Technology, with specializations in object-oriented software development, media and web design, and system design respectively.

We are particularly experienced in PHP and Java programming languages, the MySQL database system and all standard internet technologies (HTML, Javascript, Flash, Ajax, CSS)

More Information

To find out more about our web development services you may wish to look at our portfolio and case studies:

Contact Information

Olive Net Ltd
Queensgate House
48 Queens Street
Exeter
EX4 3SR

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Tel: +44(0)1392 247894
Fax: +44(0)1392 247892


Open Source Software

Olive Net has implemented the majority of its websites using freely available Open Source software as a base. Most people have heard the term open source but many don't understand the meaning or benefits of open source software.

In a nutshell, all the programming behind the scenes is available for all programmers to see and change to suit their needs. Often successful changes are fed back to the community and the software continually develops.

The advantages? The advantage to the website owner is primarily that the majority of websites can be quickly built on existing open software and modified by a company such as Olive Net to suit exact needs. The expense of developing custom software is avoided. Often open source software is free, and this is certainly no reflection of quality which is often of the absolute highest standard.

Some of the most widely used and respected internet software is open source, including the programming language PHP and the Apache HTTP web server