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 | | | | | | Hogsmill is a Surrey-based company providing web site and other software related services to SMEs in the Surrey and South-East area. At Hogsmill, we are committed to providing low-cost, high quality solutions for local businesses, and de-mystifying the technology to make it available to all, no matter how much, or how little, they know about the internet. |  | | | | We provide the following services: | | |  |
Low-cost, but fully managed web sites. You don't need to know anything about computers or the internet to have a web site! | | | | Affordable software products to help run your business, including CRM systems, and email handling and tracking. | | | | Internet-related programming services, in LAMP (with Perl) and WAMP (LAMP under Windows), JavaScript and AJAX. | | | | | | Call or mail us now and we'll be happy to discuss your requirements in more detail. Hogsmill are committed to help you get the most of the web for your business without breaking the bank. |  | |
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| | | | | | | | I Need A Website, But Know Nothing About The Internet. Can Hogsmill Help Me? | | | Hogsmill's main aim is to get as many small businesses on the web, with their own web site, as possible. They are acheiving this by providing low-cost, low-maintenance sites that are, nevertheless, fully managed and kept up-to-date with the latest internet trends and rules. Click Here  to read our free web site guide. | | | | What Sort Of Businesses do Hogsmill Work With? | | | There is no limit to how small (or how big...) a business can be to have a Hogsmill web site - Hogsmill have built sites in many areas, including: - No Vat On That - a fully-featured AJAX-driven Web 2.0 site featuring forums, ad boards, registration, and intelligent searching.
- The Personal Touch - a typical SME site for a local beauty therapy business.
- Reality FX - s site for a local IT consultancy. Includes an on-line shop, and a customer-accessible CMS system to allow new content to be easily generated.
- HR Consultants - a site for a small HR consultancy.
- Your Chef - a site for a catering tuition consultancy.
- Villa Ste. Maxime - site for a Holiday Villa Company - Hogsmill created the perpetual calendar and enquiries system for this site (not the whole site!)
Due to Hogsmill's unique technology, we can provide sites in any industry. A full list of sites we have built or been involved in appears on the resources page. | | | | How Can Hogsmill Do This For Such A Low Price? | | | Hogsmill can do this due to its technology. In developing the sites above, we have developed a sophisticated library of code in Perl, PHP and JavaScript, and we re-use these libraries to build sites. ot only does this mean we can develope sites quickly, the sites are alsohigh quality, as we are building sites from previously tested and proved technology. This is how we can keep the costs down, yet keep all our sites up-to-date with the latest trends. Many elements are simple, for instance, do you want the navigation down the left or along the top, do you want 3 columns or 2, etc. However, we also provide more complex elements. These are as easily set up as simple elements, however - you just say "I need an X on my site", and we can provide it. Examples of these more complex elements are: - E-Commerce. On-line shopping facilities, from simply taking orders to full on-line purchase.
- Forums. Configurable forums and blogs to allow users to chat and comment on any topic.
- Event Listings and "Upcoming". A table of past and future events with automatically calcuated and updated "Next Event"
- Google Maps Integration Integration with Google mapos so that customers can quickly find where you arem and how to reach you.
- League Tables and Appearances. Automatically calculated tables from spreadsheets or text files.
- Music Downloads. MP3 downloads, with optional lyric sheets.
- Links. Automatically formatted tables of gallery links to favoured sites.
- Competitions. Competitions with auto-email of entries, and automatically updated questions.
As time goes on, and more Hogsmill sites are built, the more elements there will be in the libraries. Existing customers will be informed of new elements, and can simply request them on their site if they want them. | | | | What Happens When I've Got My Site? | | | Hogsmill are committed to getting SMEs up to speed with web technology, and keeping sites up-to-date with the latest trends and ideas. Thus, we provide on-going support for all sites we build, and have a special resources site giving help and advice for all customers. Regular newsletters will keep you up-to-date with new sites we've built, and new features that are available. All sites built also come with a User Guide to tell you how to get the best from your site, how to get changes made, and how to get your site to the top of the search engines (SEO) If required, we can also provide editing facilities so you can change the contebt of you site easily and quickly, to keep your customers up-to-date with your latest company development. | | | | What Sort Of Website Do I Need For My Business? | | How Do I Get To The Top Of The Search Engines? | | What Do I Need To Know About Web Sites? | | How Do I....? | | What Do I....? | | | For answers to these, and many other questons, read our no-nonsense guide to web sites. Click Here | |
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| | | | | | Hogsmill provide a set of affordable software products to help you run your business. | | | | |  |
Reality CRM. This Customer-Relationship Management (CRM) system is aimed squarely at small to medium-sized businesses, so is easily configurable to whatever form is required by any business. | | | This feature-rich system provides full contact and company tracking, advanced searching, mass-mailling and a full journaling and reminder system. A suite of standard reports can be augmented by any custom data presentation that is required. |  | | | Click here Here (CRM Usage Scenarios) for a flavour of what this system can do for your business. | | | |
Outlook Project Management. This simple yet effective tool allows incoming emails to be automatically date-stamped and saved to project-specific folders to provide a full email history throughout any project or campaign. |  | | | | | | | Hogsmill are always happy to quote for any internet-/mail/browser-based applications. Mail Here and we'll be happy to discuss further. | |
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| | | | L = Linux A = Apache M = MySQL P = Perl & PHP W = Windows | | Hogsmill can provide programming services on a contract or project basis using a variety of internet-based technologies. Call or mail for prices and availability. Hogsmill can provide services in the following technologies: | | | | | |
LAMP and WAMP Hogsmill can provide consultancy services in full open source (Linux, Apache MySQL and PHP/Perl) or 'semi-'open source (using Windows). Open source applications can be developed cheaper and easier than full Microsoft applications, due to their more open licencing policies. However, these are not 'toy' technologies - Apache is widely believed to be the most stable software application in the world, with over 90% of the world's websites running on it. | | | | | JavaScript and AJAX JavaScript allows processing to be carried out on a web page, enriching the experience for web site visitors. From a simple confirmation alert to complex page re-design 'on-the-fly' based on user selection, JavaScript provides fully dynamic behaviour to keep visitors interested. See the birds on the 'Hogsmill' page for an example. AJAX takes this a step further, and allows dynamic content to be added to a page without reloading it. As an example, as a user types in a word, suggestions could be shown by querying a database, or spelling checked as they typed. Click here Here for some examples of what can be acheived on your sites using JavaScript and AJAX can do. | | | | |
CSS(2) CSS allows sophisticated colouring and positioning effects, layering of elements, and even hiding and showing of text and oher objects. Roll over LAMP and WAMP above to see a simple rollover effect. CSS allows web sites to be what has become known as 'Web 2.0'; this site, for instance has content in the middle of the page, horizontal menus, explicitly positioned objects, and some rounded corners. Compare this to older 'Web 1.0' sites that allow the browser to position elements as it sees fit. | | | | |
Standards Compliance As can be seen from the logo at the bottom of this page, Hogsmill build sites to the latest W3C standards. This ensures sites are correctly rendered across browsers to maximise the visitors experience. | | | | | | | | Hogsmill always uses the latest, most appropriate technology to ensure you get the best products and the best people for your projects. Hogsmill is an equal-OS-oportunites company - we don't discriminate against Open Source or Microsoft! | |
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| | | | | | The River Hogsmill is a tributary of the River Thames and runs through the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey and the London Borough of Kingston. The Epsom and Ewell section of the River flows north-west from Ewell to the borough boundary with Kingston. Along with open space industry such as the Thames Water works at Berrylands, the river provides an excellent 'green corridor', making the gardens and open spaces of its surrounding area richer with wildlife than would otherwise be the case. |  | | | As well as the 'usual suspects', the following Species have all been seen in the grounds of Hogsmill Ltd. | | | | | | | Further Reading Please send in any other links about the Hogsmill, so that more people can be aware of this lovely gem in the heart of Suburbia. | |
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| | | | | | | | Contact Hogsmill using the details on the left. For surface mail contact, use the following address: | | Hogsmill Ltd,
1, Cheyne Hill
Surbiton
Surrey
KT5 8BL
| | | | Company No.: 06288166 | | VAT Reg.: 917236817 | | |
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| | | | Hogsmill Resources Area | Login or register to get access to Hogsmill's web resources page. This page containsuseful info to get the best out of your Hogsmill sites and applications, including: - SEO Guides - Get your site higher in the search engines.
- Useful Links - Various links of interest.
- Link Directory - Sites that will provide a link to your site.
Click Here to go to the Resources Page. | |
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