conception & preparation

• registering your domain & choosing a host
• analyse, design, information architecture, user interface
• preparing & programming your web site

promotion

• mail, newsletters, RSS feeds, podcasts & more
• promotional sites, blogs
• banners, ads, illustrations, graphics
• on-line advertising campaigns
• referencing strategy & statistics

updating

• audit & consulting
• propositions for accessibility
• moving from a table-based design to Style Sheet CSS integration
• updating & relooking an existing site

à la carte

• technical writing, documentation, translation
• custom programming
• adaptation of existing tools or Open Source projects

First of all you will want an estimate for the work to be done. This will mean spending some time talking about your project. We can discuss matters face to face, by phone, by Instant Message, or by e-mail: whatever suits you best. This will result in an initial appreciation of your project: we will both need to agree on this.

If your project is not complicated, then this document can be used as the specifications. If your project is more sophisticated, then detailed specifications may need to be drawn up, in this case, the initial document serves as a letter of intent.

This initial stage will allow us to present you with an estimate. This first approach also serves as a means of getting to know each other; if we are to be working together for some time, then you want to be reassured about our competences, our seriousness and our reactivity.

This initial phase is, naturally, not billed.

According to the complexity of your project, you will also need to have a detailed calendar and to know when you will be required to approve the different stages; you will need to know the dates when you will need to make assets and resources ready to be delivered to us; you will also need to approve payments dates as work progresses.

Once a project — however big or small — is finished, it is a good idea to step back and to review all that happened. This allows both of us to evaluate the project and build strategies for the future.

Confidentiality

We treat your work with the utmost confidence. You may have to tell us about plans and strategy: we are forbidden from providing this information to anyone else. You may have to provide us with network access and passwords: we will protect these as if they were our own. We do not talk about work in progress without permission from our clients; but you will understand that once a project is made public, we may present that work and indicate our precise role in the project.

Finally, we will not work on projects where there is a possible conflict of interest. In the event that a client, or even ourselves, is working on something similar, we will either seek permission to discuss the issue, or politely refuse the project.

Open Source Protects Your investment

Open Source gives you, the client, the control of your project. Once our work is finished you are free to take the code of your web site or application to any other developer for further support or adaptation. There is no proprietary lock-in, no licence to pay or renew.

Being based on Open Source code, your project is not controlled by one supplier, ensuring its perennity. Open Source also means a better use of resources as you are not paying us to reinvent the wheel over and over again, just adapting tried-and-tested code to your specific needs.

In addition, Open Source projects are frequently updated and enhanced, and new versions are made available, free of charge. Your project can evolve and improve itself with minimum fuss and cost.

Open Source Means Strong and Reliable

Open Source projects like Apache (the webserver), Linux or BSD (operating systems), mySQL (database), and PHP or Perl (scripting languages) are the motors behind the vast majority of web sites on the Internet. They pull together the collective power of hundreds of developers, from individuals to giant corporations: IBM, Yahoo, Amazon, and France Telecom — to cite just a few — are all users and developers of solid Open Source solutions.