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History

We've been in business for over 10 years and have developed long term relationships with many of our clients, some of whom have been with us from the start. Our aim has always been to deliver cutting edge web design coupled with rock solid web programming. We work with different types of organisations across a range of industries including companies, charities, not-for-profits, business schools, and individuals. We moved the office to London in 2002 and now share office space in the heart of the city with one of our long standing clients, Joose TV. We love what we do and this is evident in the work we produce as well as the excellent relationships we've developed with our clients.

Our process

We try and keep things simple and have developed a process that works well both for us and our clients. All our projects are managed using an online project management tool which keeps everyone in the loop and ensures schedules are kept to and deadlines met. We usually start by taking a brief from you, and from there we produce a quote and schedule for the work. We usually provide a variety of implementation options at a range of prices to give you the choice of balancing functionality against cost. We start by writing a functional specification detailing the project scope and deliverables. We then produce a range of designs based on your brief before we start coding. We build all our websites to be standards compliant, search engine friendly, and accessible. Once launched we can provide web hosting and support for the site, and if required we can also advise you on developing a long term strategy for your website.

Technologies & rates

We offer a variety of technologies including PHP, ASP, .NET, PERL, and PYTHON. We favour open source technologies such as PHP and MySQL on Linux. We are an independent agency so if you have a particular content management system you are familiar with, we can work with it, we can recommend another product, or we can build you something from scratch. All clients have different requirements and we try to be as flexible as possible to offer a range of solutions for your organisation.

Our designer and developer rates are competitive and we charge a day rate of £400.00 + VAT per developer/designer. The cost of developing a website is dependent on a variety of factors including size and technical requirements. We can provide free, no-obligation quotes on request; please get in touch if you have a project you'd like us to quote on.

Our client relationships

We can tell you lots about our clients but it's probably better to hear it from them, so here's a selection of feedback we've received from some of them. We have grown our business through word of mouth recommendations from satisfied clients; developing good relationships with our clients is paramount to our business. We also work with organisations interested in offering web services to their clients but who lack the skills internally to deliver projects. Perhaps you run a design agency and would like to use our developers to build websites for your clients? Or maybe your organisation is technology focused and you need a web design partner? We work with design agencies, marketing agencies, publishers, and consultancies as web partners. Interested in becoming a partner?

 

"Not only providing the technical information required, webfire are patient and flexible in their approach, enabling 'non-techies' like myself and my client to understand both the potential and the problems inherent in a range of different website solutions."

  • Jane Loveday, Cascaid Consulting

"webfire are always fantastic to work with. They deliver consistently great work, on time and often at very short notice."

  • Abi Charters, Cascaid Marketing

"...with such an important project, there are few people we would trust with the size and complexity of this type of website. webfire have not disappointed. Their commitment and diligence have helped make our site a reality. We are delighted with the end result."

  • Sophie Christoforou, Hodges Bay Club

"It's been a pleasure and a privilege dealing with webfire. They're fantastic to work with and they produce excellent results."

  • Eddie McCaffrey, Joose TV

"webfire are a constant source of reassurance, nothing is ever a problem, no surprise costs, only ever more wonderful business solutions."

  • Robin Sieger, Sieger International

"webfire are the best team of web designers we've seen. Creative, reliable, responsive, and extremely easy to deal with. Best of all is their ability to speak plain English, so even we can understand."

  • Des Dearlove, Crainer Dearlove

"...a huge thank you for making the online vision of The FSI a reality!"

  • Kim van Niekerk, The FSI

"The developers at webfire were always on hand to make changes within minutes of our requests and the site looks fantastic. We couldn't have asked for more patience or commitment."

  • Hester Rice, The Oxford Health Alliance

"The service from webfire is impressive - both in terms of the product delivered, and also the speed and thoroughness with which queries are responded to and suggestions implemented."

  • Katy Cooper, The Oxford Health Alliance