3aIT can build your entire website from scratch, or help spruce up an old one. We can provide web hosting options for your site once complete. We also specialise in a variety of web-based management systems that are tailored to meet your individual needs and circumstances. We can build custom modules and features for Joomla, WordPress, Prestashop and many other content management systems.
The best technologies
We pick the best CMS for your project rather than make it fit a single "favourite" as some web companies do.
Transparent Development
During the development process, we can provide access to ongoing test versions so you can monitor progress.
Multi-Device
Ensuring that all websites we create work just as well on a mobile as they do on a widescreen monitor.
Flexible Design
We can build your site with a bespoke design, but are equally comfortable using an off-the-shelf solution.
3aIT have been building websites and web applications for over 20 years. We love taking on new challenges and getting into the nuts and bolts of the problem. With an agile approach to project management, we establish the priority of features and allow these to guide our project plan.
Joomla tends to be 3aIT's CMS of choice for any medium to large scale website. While we sometimes recommend 
Some of 3aIT's flagship sites are built using Joomla, including this one.
While Joomla is our CMS of choice for larger, more complex websites, we often recommend Wordpress for smaller sites, and also lean towards this for eCommerce websites. Wordpress is primarily a blogging platform, but can be extended to create great small-scale websites. Due to its ubiquity, there are literally thousands of off-the-shelf themes and plugins that can be used to give your website the look you are after without the expense of a bespoke design.
A web app differs from a “full-blown” app in that the user doesn’t have to install anything on their device to see your app. It is viewed using the device’s web browser. In other words, it’s a web page that has been heavily customised to look great on mobiles and tablets. We have been expanding our Web App Design and Development offerings to provide our clients with bespoke mobile phone and tablet web applications.
When your website is created, it will (certainly if it has been created by us) be running the latest version of Joomla or Wordpress. However, these CMS systems get constant updates. Often these are minor updates - security fixes and the like (although in many ways these are the most important). Sometimes, the updates are much bigger and include new features. This is where a CMS Maintenance contract is useful.
Most of the time, the upgrades to Joomla or Wordpress take just a few minutes, and go without a hitch a considerable percentage of the time. However, when significant changes are made to any CMS platform, the corresponding fixes and adjustments can take hours, or sometimes days to undertake. We cannot really predict these changes in advance, or know exactly which changes may impact your site in such a way that it will break. Generally, it’s the major version upgrades that tend to require extra work to implement. At the current rate of release, these tend to happen every 1-2 years. That’s not to say that a smaller update won’t ever need attention, or that a major version update will definitely break your website. Option 2 is basically a “CMS insurance policy” to give you the option of spreading the cost of likely work that will need to be undertaken to your website in the future.