About
Welcome
Welcome and thank you for visiting our site. Custard Media is a small firm of IT consultants specializing in Search Engine Marketingt. We offer a friendly, professional service at very competitive rates. Our server, which we own, is a 215 Mhz Pentium Pro running under NT Server 4.0 and has 2Gb disk space and 64Mb RAM. It is based in London and uses a 10Mb link to London Telehouse.
Services
Website hosting
The fact that we have our own server means that we can offer superior performance and unrivalled flexibilty, whatever your requirements. Whether you are looking to set up a simple Web presence, an on-line shop, on-line databases or interactive Web applications, we can help.
We also offer secure Website hosting and are one of only about 750 sites in the world, outside the US, who have a valid security certificate from a trusted third-party certification authority, namely Verisign. This is based on a survey of 650,000 Websites carried out by O’Reilly & Associates, who found that, of about 65,000 SSL-enabled sites, 95% did not have a valid certificate from a trusted third-party certification authority and, of those that did, 77% were US based. The simple fact is that customers will not send their credit card details over the Intenet if they are not sure who they are sending that information to.
Website design
We will design an attractive, informative, consistent and easy to use site for you that users will want to return to again and again. Take a look at The UK Arts & Crafts Guide, a Magellan 3-star site and LookSmart ‘Editor’s Choice’, The Tam O’Shanter Exhibition, which won a ‘Hot On The Net Top 10′ award from Yell and an ‘Editor’s Choice’ award from Scotland.org, Anne Finlay Jewellery, another LookSmart ‘Editor’s Choice’ or the William Morris exhibition, A Vision in Action, of which Yell said ‘if William Morris were alive today, I think he would be proud of this elegant-looking site’.
Applications development
If you are you looking to set up an on-line database or interactive Web application in double-quick time then you have come to the right place. Take a look at our shopping mall, ‘Best of British’, which was developed in-house. This system offers a host of advanced features, including the ability to operate in any number of currencies and to handle any number of tax regimes applicable to different vendors, as well as automatic calculation of delivery charges for any destination in the world.
Software
If you like our shopping mall then why not buy it! The system runs under NT Server 4.0 and uses idc/htx to connect to ODBC compliant databases, including Microsoft Access. Why pay the earth when you can get simplicity, flexibility and total control at a fraction of the cost? A SQL Server version of the software will be available soon.
Consultancy
We can offer common-sense, practical advice based on many years experience both in business generally and in information technology and the Internet in particular. We talk your language, offer simple, workable solutions and don’t cost the earth. Why not give us a call for a free initial consultation? It may be all you need.
Internet marketing
If you are looking to promote your site on the Internet then we can undertake a targeted marketing campaign on your behalf. This includes registration with all the major search engines and directories, monitoring your registrations to make sure that you are in the right place and are easy to find and can include advertising and press releases.
How to contact us
You can contact us by visiting http://www.custardmedia.co.uk/
