About Standards

Blimp strives to provide the most standards-compliant solutions possible.

Why should we care about standards? If we adhere to the the standards and guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XHTML Specifications and Accessibility Guidelines, our web-based applications are guaranteed to work on most web browsers and other internet-enabled devices, giving our clients the biggest business offset available.

Our web sites are also more accessible to disabled or visually impaired individuals, and to individuals that access the website content via mobile phones, PDAs, hand-helds, and other small-screen devices. Currently, all our programs are tested on Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x, Opera 8.x, 9.x, Konqueror x.x and Safari 1.x, to ensure that almost all Windows®, Linux® and Mac® users can access online content with their favourite browsers/devices. Thus, it is worth the effort.

Web Development and Programming

The world is getting smaller. We can help you reach a global market place with your new or existing business ideas, processes and marketing messages - so that you can achieve your business goals. Reach countless potential customers and provide automated services for existing clients, that are readily accessible via web browsers, mobile phones, hand-helds and other commonly available electronic devices. Web development simply makes business sense.

Web Site Development

Not two projects are alike. When we develop web sites for our customers, it gives us the opportunity to create something really special, by combining our digital design team's creativity and ease-of-use interface design principles with our technical execution and integration.

Blimp's development team is skilled in a variety of cutting-edge and popular Internet-based development platforms. We provide programming services for both client and server-side applications. For most projects these days, we do both.

On the one hand, we develop rich and exciting browser-based client applications using JavaScript and AJAX-based design approaches. On the server-side, we design and integrate database-driven business processes with these client interfaces. Whatever online solution you are looking for, Blimp will help you find a way to make it work.

Blimp's Web Development team is often sub-contracted by other web design and web development companies, due to our reliability and the quality of our work. Our services are delivered on time. Our developers have developed online applications since 1995 and have a thourough knowledge of current technologies, accepted methodologies and industry standards. We produce source code that is well commented, secure, stable, efficient and of high quality. A lot of time is invested in research in order to optimise code, to secure online applications against attacks, to improve business process automation and to stay in touch with ever-emerging technologies and current market trends.

Web Hosting and Deployment

Application deployment is an often overlooked part of the web development process. You need a solid, reliable platform on which your applications will be deployed. Blimp does not use any third party hosting providers. We simply cannot take that chance. Instead, we run our own dedicated servers, both locally and internationally, over which we have 100% control.

We configure and maintain our own web, mail and database servers. The amount of control we have over our hosting platforms allows us to have more freedom when it comes to the consideration of the potential technologies that can be used to provide the best development and deployment of your applications. The more we know and learn about hosting, the better your online solution will be protected.

At the moment we do not re-sell our web hosting solutions to the general public, but we do offer reliable hosting solutions to selected customers (most of which are web design companies making use of our services). Contact us if you are interested in a truly customised hosting solution, tailored to your needs.

Database Design and System Integration

Many useful web sites are driven by business processes that are, in turn, driven by robust relational database management systems. We have a thorough knowledge of a variety of different database systems and we can design scalable database solutions to drive your business processes and to protect and persist your business data.

Very often we meet challenging system integration requirements - and we enjoy finding the best solutions.