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Ad Therapy
We are located in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa and offers affordable solutions to suit your web site design, web development, web hosting, website management and web site promotion requirements.
Design and Development
The concept of design refers to the stylistic elements of a web site that give rise to its aesthetic appeal whilst development refers to the software code that is generated enabling those artistic elements to be viewed on a browser, i.e. Internet Explorer. Initially, this is usually the most expensive aspect of having a web site but it is a stand-alone cost.
We use the Microsoft platform exclusively and our sites are designed using Expression Web, Visual Studio 2008 and SharePoint Designer in conjunction with the .net framework and SQL Server 2008. Expression Web and SharePoint Designer employ Master Pages for the common or themed elements of the web site and Content Pages for specific information displayed on individual pages. SQL Server 2005 enables database development for large content sites and Visual Studio 2008 is used for the creation of scripting software for animations, etc. on web pages. We also use various software packages for the creation and optimisation of images and photographs.
Many of our web sites are tourism-related, i.e. individual destinations and tour operators who wish to attract an international audience, and the majority of all our sites are mainly brochure-type in style. This type of custom-designed web site is the most inexpensive and well-suited to the tourism-based sector as well as to the many small and medium enterprises who wish to maintain a professional web presence while keeping cost low.
Pony Club South Africa, a web site designed and hosted by Develec
Pony Club
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International Hosting
Our hosting facilities are situated on servers in the UK. We have found that international hosting is cheaper and far more efficient in terms of service as well as from a technical standpoint, i.e. international bandwidth is greater than that in South Africa and hence the download times – the time taken to display a web page in a browser – are far quicker than were we to host locally. This lack of bandwidth locally would obviously impact on international visitors to our sites. Independent testing by one of our clients has shown that local hosting is also slower for local visitors to local sites. This is presumably because both host and client bandwidth is constricted for local hosting whereas only client bandwidth is constricted where sites are hosted abroad.
Our hosting server has a large number of features, the most notable of which is that it is Windows 2008 Server-based and supports ASP.net versions 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5. We also offer SQL Server 2008 for those clients requiring database applications. The facilities on our server include Smarter Stats which is a comprehensive on-line statistics tool offering a plethora of built-in as well as custom reports, 3D graphics and data-mining capabilities allowing our clients to monitor the activity on their sites.
We also offer an email hosting facility utilising standard POP3 or IMAP mail boxes with comprehensive spam filtering and virus checking. There is also a web mail facility allowing each user to access email using a standard web browser. Thus, users can access their mail from anywhere in the world and can also compose and send emails using this facility. Additionally, users can set spam filtering preferences for their email and manage the service using their web browser.
Our Plans
Choose one of our plans to suit your web requirements, starting from as little as R49 per month, and benefit from the latest Microsoft IIS based web and email hosting services.
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Windows Server 2003 IIS
Microsoft ASP.net version 3.5
SQL Server 2008 Database
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