web design and IT support in Guildford
Four miles up the road, and where a good deal of the bespoke application work has ended up.
About ten minutes up the A3100, which is near enough to be there before the problem has been fully described.
Guildford is where the larger jobs tend to come from. It has the professional firms, the charities and the offices that have outgrown a spreadsheet, and that is exactly the point where a bespoke application starts to cost less than living with the workarounds.
Gordons Partnership LLP is the clearest example. Their staff intranet replaced a WordPress site nobody looked at and a sprawl of shared spreadsheets: twenty-nine areas, single sign-on against the firm's own Microsoft accounts, and a staff list that maintains itself from their directory overnight. The same firm has two touchscreens in the building, one on the reception desk that signs staff, clients and contractors in and out, and one outside the boardrooms reading their own Outlook calendars. Guildford Action is here too, on the charity side.
If your firm is in Guildford and the honest description of a process is "it is in a spreadsheet and one person understands it", that is the conversation I would want to have. It usually turns out to be a smaller piece of software than people expect.
work done in Guildford
Gordons Partnership LLP
G.Net staff intranet*
A bespoke intranet for a law firm, replacing a WordPress site nobody looked at and a sprawl of shared spreadsheets. Twenty-nine areas, single sign-on against the firm's own Microsoft accounts, and a staff list that maintains itself.
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Gordons Partnership Solicitors
Reception check-in and boardroom displays*
Two touchscreens in the same building, both reading from systems the firm already runs. Reception signs in staff, clients and contractors; a tablet outside the boardrooms shows what is booked.
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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 thisMaintenance & Support
The work nobody notices until it has not been done. Updates tested before they go live, monitoring that tells me before it tells you, and a monthly note saying what actually happened.
more about thisIT Support & Consultancy
The person who built your website also knows why the printer has stopped talking to the network. Delivered alongside MFC IT Services, who I have worked with for more than six years.
more about thisquestions people ask
Do you build intranets as well as websites?
Yes, and in Guildford that is most of the work. An intranet is a website that knows who you are, and the useful part is usually the sign-on and the lists that keep themselves current rather than the pages.
Can it sign in with our Microsoft accounts?
That is the normal way I build them. Single sign-on against Microsoft Entra ID means no second password, no account to create when somebody joins, and nothing to remember to switch off when they leave.
We are a charity. Is this affordable?
Ask. Some of this work is done at a reduced rate and some of it is donated outright, and a charity with a clear problem and a small budget is a conversation worth having rather than one to avoid.
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.
