Web Design/Solutions

No one can deny the impact the Internet has bought about to global business. Figures presented by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on e-commerce and development estimated 676 million internet users in 2003, about one tenth of the worlds population. One can imagine this figure to rise drastically once developing countries develop the infrastructure to bring the Internet to its citizens. Forrester Research estimated global e-commerce in 2002 at approximately US$2.3 trillion growing to US$12.8 trillion by 2008.

Renaissance Solutions specialises in bringing companies, businesses and organisations on to the web. Establishing a market presence on the web is only achieved with a professionally designed site. Renaissance Solutions takes the stance that web sites are the new shop fronts to business and organisations. The same planning and thought taken in designing a shop floor in order to entice customers and ensure their visit is maximised and that they return needs to be taken with the website. A correctly implemented website can give a small business the potential to compete with big businesses and an incorrectly implemented website can make a big business appear to be small.

Many businesses have still failed to realise the importance of a web presence and the potential revenue streams available via this medium. Some companies have rushed the process and therefore have websites with little appeal and practicality. Renaissance Solutions has successfully managed to provide a web presence for a diverse range of businesses ranging from small restaurants, musical bands, artists, print studios and educational forums to corporate Asian telecom giants.

Renaissance Solutions offers the following design services:

Complete Website Design or Re-design

Your website is the representation of your company on the Internet it often gives the first impression of your company to a visitor, and may be your only chance to impress that visitor and earn their business. There are hundreds of millions of websites on the Internet, so if yours does not clearly convey the benefits to the visitor right away, is difficult to navigate, takes too long to load, or has horrible copy then you might as well forward your website to your competitor's.

Renaissance Solutions has successfully managed to provide many small businesses with a web presence. At Renaissance we understand the tight budget constraints and limited resources small businesses and start-ups are faced with. We have designed and supported a host of different clientele ranging from home based business start-ups to multi-national companies and small community organisations to government websites.

Our designers and developers understand the values you want your website to portray. All designs are unique and carefully cultured to your specific environment and needs. Special communication between our concept designers and customers takes place to create original graphics and ideas, which result in a website that shows their true identity.

Media Applications

Our state of the art multimedia solutions cover the full spectrum of computer interactivity. These applications can utilize the full power of the Internet and can run independently either as CD-ROMS or as installed applications, providing streaming video, high-end 3-D graphics and sound beyond the constraints of today's bandwidth limitations.

Custom Programmed Multi-Media Solutions

Our flash based video streaming solutions require no download or any installation at the clients end and run on the world's No.1 media server i.e. Macromedia^® Communications Server.

Customized Media solutions based on standards can be developed, such as security and monitoring software, voice management solutions and diverse multi-media based customer support centres.

Hosting and Domain Registration

The first step to building a website is to register your domain name. A domain name is the letters or words that visitors must type in to come to your website. For example, Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, and MSN.com are all domain names. Essentially, they are words (although numbers can be used), that tell your browser which server to go to and which website to display on the screen.

For a website to come up when a visitor types in your domain name, all the files for the website have to be stored somewhere on a server. Hosting simply is the storage of these files on a server. Large sites will generally own their own server, and super sites like yahoo.com or amazon.com have floors of buildings filled with nothing but servers. However, for sites in the 1-2000 page range, generally you won't need your own server. What you will need however, is space on a server.

To obtain this space, you'll need to purchase a hosting package from a hosting provider. You have two options when it comes to getting a website started. You can register your domain name first, then buy hosting, or you can do both at the same time and save time and money.

Many software and design companies can provide you design or hosting services, but Renaissance Solutions offers you an all in one package with design, development, hosting and support included. We provide standard Red-hat Linux (which is the most stable Operating system known to Man) based hosting to our clients. The standard account includes Plesk Control Panel, Weekly backups, unlimited email addresses, PHP, Python and MYSQL support.