web design and IT support in Alton
Forty minutes along the A31, for a town that does a lot of its business by van.
About forty minutes along the A31.
Alton is a working town: builders, installers, growers, small manufacturers and the professional firms that serve them. A lot of that work happens in a van rather than at a desk, which has one practical consequence for software. If it does not work properly on a phone, with one hand, in bad signal, it does not get used.
That is the test I would apply to anything built for a business here, website included. The quoting platform built for Dave Cheeseman Roofing is the closest piece of work on this site: measurements in, a price out of a component library that is maintained in one place, a branded PDF, and an acceptance link, instead of a spreadsheet that gets retyped into a document.
No named client in Alton yet, which is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up.
what Alton businesses ask for
Custom Development
When off-the-shelf software nearly fits but not quite, a purpose-built application usually costs less than living with the workarounds.
more about thisWordPress Design
Most WordPress sites are a bought theme with somebody else's logo swapped out. Yours gets designed around what you actually need to say, and built so that changing it afterwards does not mean ringing me.
more about thisWeb & Email Hosting
UK hosting for websites and mailboxes, with a person on the end of it. When email stops on a Friday afternoon you are speaking to whoever set it up, not filing a ticket and waiting.
more about thisDomain Names
Domains in one place, renewed before they lapse rather than after. SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up properly, which is the difference between your email arriving and your email landing in spam.
more about thisquestions people ask
Can it work on a phone on site?
It has to. Anything built for people who are out all day is designed for the phone first and the desk second, and tested on a real one rather than on a browser pretending.
We quote in a spreadsheet. Is that worth changing?
If quotes take days to go out, or prices drift between the sheet and the document somebody retypes them into, then yes. If it takes ten minutes and never goes wrong, leave it alone.
How far out do you come?
Alton is comfortably within range. Beyond it, most things can be done remotely, and I will tell you when they cannot.
nearby
no obligation, and no sales call
start with the problem
Tell me what you are trying to fix and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No obligation, and no sales call.
The fact find takes about five minutes and means I can quote properly.
