Symbiotica Web Development

We’re now using with PHP FastCGI

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:11:16 +0000

We’ve just started using PHP FastCGI to power some of our websites like our free uk link directory, www.blinks.org.uk to make sure that everything is always running nice and quickly.

So far everything is going perfectly.

Never loose a page again

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:49:10 +0000

We’ve just added bookmarklets to the popular Science Fiction book website www.science-fictions.co.uk so you need never loose a page or a book again.

The bookmark tool allows you to save bookmarks to a variety of social networking services including Google, Yahoo, Delicious & Digg.

Not just websites

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:51:42 +0000

Earlier this year we also spent a bit of time designing T-Shirts (not just beautiful websites) these are available to buy from Spreadshirt the online clothing producer.

Sci-Fi Book Finder Google Gadget

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:09:39 +0000

We’ve just created a Google Gadget to tie in with www.science-fictions.co.uk – our Sci-Fi Book website. If you suddenly feel the need to find out about a book by a particular author, the gadget allows you to just pick an author and then see available books.

Add the Sci-Fi Book finder to iGoogle

CakePHP MenuHelper

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:38:09 +0000

Over at www.flipflops.org we’ve just released the code we use to manage menus and sitemaps in our CMS system, built on-top of the CakePHP application development framework.

The Helper is designed to work with data arrays produced from either any $model->find(’threaded’) or from the ‘Tree’ behaviour:

It’s fairly common to want to store hierarchical data in a database table. Examples of such data might be categories with unlimited subcategories, data related to a multilevel menu system [...] is a powerful behaviour which allows you to use the benefits of MPTT logic

[http://book.cakephp.org/view/91/Tree]

Whilst this may not be useful to a lot of people as it has been designed for use specifically within the constrains of our system, it might be useful for you.

View CakePHP Menu Helper

Sci Fi Book website goes live

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:10:49 +0000

science-fictions.co.uk – our latest website has just gone live. This is a brand new E-commerce site designed to offer books and DVDs using the Amazon Product Advertising API. This means that you can offer products for sale on Amazon via your own website and when a customer wishes to make a purchase they can do so through the secure Amazon checkout.

As the name might suggest this website is aimed at people interested in Sci Fi and Fantasy Books. The site is based around making individual authors easy to locate and also using themed lists of suggested books.

The website is still under very active development so look out for the following features coming soon:

Search
Reviews / Comments
Shopping Cart
Blog / News Section

www.science-fictions.co.uk

Sneak Preview – SOL Electrical

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:04:31 +0000

The new site for SOL Electrical Ltd, a firm of Devon based Electrical Contractors is almost ready. At the moment we are just collating images and text with our clients.

The site itself runs off a light weight template engine that we built specifically for this project, whilst the site content is stored as XML for quick, painless and felxible editing – also meaning that the content is easily available in normal HTML format or as part of an RSS feed.

http://www.solelectrical.com/

Free Business Links Directory Doing Well

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:52:00 +0000

Blinks.org.uk is continuing to do well and now has a steady stream of businesses signing up. It is a Business Link Directory aimed at companies and organisations in the UK. It is organised by Region and by Category, and allows businesses to add a listing with thier address and contact details, link to thier website, a brief description and an image or logo.

It is open to anyone to add their business or organisation but could be particularly popular with web agencies looking o help promote thier clients websites, back links are appreciated but are not required for a listing.

We’re adding new features all the time, so watch this space.

Devolve Communications

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:44 +0000

We’re pleased to be developing the website for Devolve Communications a new PR agency set up by ex BBC Journalist and New Statesman online editor, Ben Davies.

Devolve is a one stop shop for digital communications, content, web redesign, video with a particular focus on membership and campaigning organisations.

Doing business with us means you are tapping into expertise that stretches from top level print and online journalism, via broadcast quality films to in depth strategic communications planning to Site Engine Optimisation.

For the technologically inclined of you. The new website uses a bespoke, highly flexible and easy to use CMS system built ontop the popular and powerfull CakePHP framework.

We’ve arrived!

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:33:43 +0000

Symbiotica Media Development Ltd has arrived as of today.

Bespoke website & application development based in Devon, England.

E-commerce
Content Management Systems
CRM Systems

Standards based, accessible LAMP based web development using a variety of tools including PHP, MySQL, CakePHP, jQuery, Python and Django.

Our main website is currently under development and will hopefully be here soon. It is a bit of a depature from the usual PHP based system and is being constructed with Django a Python web development framework. Of course depending on how busy we are it might take a bit longer than we imagine.