Web and application development

Utopia has been working in the internet industry since 1998, developing a wide range of products for our clients. Rather than pulling solutions out of a template box, Utopia creates innovative solutions that meet clients' specific needs. For clients, this avoids problems that can occur by purchasing a site constructed from outdated technology. In fact, each year, we invest over 20% of our time in research and development.

Our aim is to provide clients with online solutions that are scalable, browser compatible and constructed to W3C standards. Quality and usability are at the core of our service philosophy.

As part of industry best practice, we utilise professional project management, versioning and testing on all projects, ensuring the best possible results.

Following our method, the development process will begin with a brief, usually taken during a consultation. This culminates in a comprehensive project plan and accompanying quotation before design or development begins.

Utopia has developed a range of proprietary solutions to meet the needs of our customers, as well as offering expertise in the following areas:

• Shopping carts
• Membership systems
• Stock management
• Site searching
• Order forms
• Content management systems
• Database development
• Data exporting

Utopia uses the following technologies and programming languages for customers' projects:

• HTML, CSS compliance
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Perl
• .NET and Active Server Pages
• SQL – including MySQL and SQL Server
• Centura