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Depends, you will be assigned appropriate copyright or licence rights for the codeMe we write for your project. We are transparent with intellectual property rights, and you will have the opportunity to review our code ownership terms before the project begins.

Depends, but it works offline with some terms & conditions.

Yes, we offer the option to engage us on an ad-hoc basis for support or have monthly retainer options should you require a more consistent and reliable level of service. Most of our clients choose monthly support retainer to get the best responsivity, as dedicated time is scheduled months in advance. This also allows them to lock in our project hourly rate for support and maintenance requests. If you have a highly technical project with us, we recommend opting for a monthly support retainer to cover small ad-hoc changes, improvements, updates and support. Ad-hoc support can work for projects that need minimal support. However, this can be at the expense of responsivity as requests are scheduled based on when our resource is available and cost more per hour than scheduled retainer or project work. We base the size and cost of our support agreements on the amount of development and support hours you need each month. The number of hours you need depends on many factors, such as the size of your project or the number of new features you are likely to need each month. It’s important that you get value for money, so we’d recommend putting together a nice-to-have list so that your allocation is used each month on value-adding improvements. If you are likely to make extensions to your project after the launch of the first version, then we would recommend switching to an Agile method of project management. This is where we assign a monthly budget for development, and plan, build, test, and launch code revisions in short bursts of time called sprints.

We like to use open source languages wherever possible with HTML, CSS and JavaScript for front-end web apps, and JavaScript or PHP on the back end. We use React Native for most mobile app projects, and sometimes use Cordova when working within tight budgets or if we need to support web, Android and iOS with one codebase. For web apps, we use frontend layout frameworks such as bootstrap, ant design or material design, in combination with front-end code frameworks such as React. On the back end, we usually use PHP frameworks such as Laravel or Yii2 for monolithic projects, or JavaScript using NodeJS for projects that require a Serverless or microservices architecture. Here is a list of some of the other technologies we can support, including Microsoft Asure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Yii, Laravel, React, React Native, SQL, Docket, NGINX, Apache, and more.

Yes, if it’s digital. Most app projects start with creating custom visuals of how the app will look and feel before we start development. We begin the design process by discovering the value behind your brand, its image and your business as a whole. Once we understand your requirements and objectives, we can engineer a design that is easy to use and performs for your business. I use the word ‘engineer’ here as good design is more than just pretty pictures – what we build has to work for you. Often this translates to users that enjoy using the site or app, and implementing processes that are optimised to convert clients.

Yes. If you have a site or app with small resource requirements, then we can host your project on our managed servers. If you have specific hosting requirements, intensive resource demands, or require something more specialist, then we can set you up with your own dedicated, cloud, or load balanced hosting environment. For example, if you need to handle high volumes of processing and traffic globally then we may opt for a codeMe multi-server hosting setup using Amazon’s EC2, Cloud Front, Elastic Load Balancer and S3 storage facilities. Should you be unsure of what you require, one option is to start with a simple hosting package first, and then move to a more advanced configuration if your needs grow.