Development services are provided either independently or as a part of the design, build and implementation phases when part of an on-IDLE solution.

Development services are quoted on the output from a consultancy exercise (project scoping). Development services always have an associated project specification that serves as the route-map to the final product ­developed by you, the customer, and on-IDLE in partnership. All technology development is driven by design and the end-user requirements.

Development services offered are:

– Scoping
– Systems architecture design
– Programming (CSS, xHTML, PHP, AJAX, XML, XSLT, ActionScript)
– Site content population
– Content Management System build (Open Source)
– Database set-up and build
– Shopping cart build and e-Commerce integration
– Implementation and testing
– Usability and Accessibility implementation
– Maintenance

Content management systems (CMS)

We develop using Open Source frameworks with our in-house highly customisable CMS, oi-Core© being an adapted version of the CakePHP framework.

Typical CMS modules that are customised to your requirements include:

– Multi-Lingual web content publishing
– Image library
– Text editing and workflow-based publishing
– Events calendar (with tagging and categories)
– Blog (with tagging, commenting and categories)
– Banner advertising engine
– Guest book and forum
– Automated email notification
– Product catalogue
– Archive (documents)
– Media (press releases, media coverage)
– HTML Email Newsletters & subscriber database
– News
– News tickers or feeds
– Dynamic PDFs
– Drop-box secure data storage systems
– Fine grain and secure user access control
– Sales figures / subscriber data with .xls export