There are hundreds of companies that can supply a web site for you, so why choose Gate Seven? The list below is what we think makes us unique.

• By offering you a partnership-based relationship, we give you the freedom to apportion your budget and resources the way that suits you best.
• We provide a comprehensive, end-to-end service for the
  • planning,
  • design,
  • implementation
  • management and
  • hosting of web sites and other web-related projects
    
• We give you access to technologies which might otherwise cost you thousands of pounds for nothing more than the cost of hosting your site.
• The majority of our sites are based on TYPO3, an open source content management system which is extremely powerful, flexible, and scalable.
• We install, configure and customise (as necessary) other sever-side applications.
• We support the hosting and development of multilingual sites, which may or may not involve typo3.
• The content management system is allows you to manage your own content with no need for additional software, using familiar interfaces which work on virtually all modern computers, and with no need to know about the background internet-related technologies like html.
• Your management extends to adding and subtracting pages and modifying the overall design and look and feel of the website on the one side, and implementing and securing work-flows on the other, so that authorised users can add content and make other changes which only appear on the site once they have been approved.
• With exceptions potentially affecting the security of the whole server (if you are sharing a server) we are happy that you do anything you wish for yourself. 
• We can arrange more or less paid support and/or training for you while you work,
• or you can rely on the vast amount of documentation on typo3.org and the various newsgroups which support the product.
• Similarly, we can take over any or all of the development and management of your site. For this we charge you at rates which are competitive.
• We can support you with copy writing, to make sure your message gets across clearly and accurately. This is often an issue for sites and organisations which support (and may be run by) people who are not native English speakers.
• We are similarly flexible about handing over control to you as and when you wish to assume it.
• We will not lock you in.
• What you pay us for is the work we do, plus other costs if you need software which is not open source. We actually prefer it if you use us to support you in gaining the skills you need to have your site achieve its objectives.