Our Story

Edward Robertson is born, in a small office above an estate agent in Darlington.

We hired Greg, making him employee number one.

Our first year turnover is £14k. It turns out nobody actually wanted a website in 1996, but that didn't put us off...

We launched the first website for local hotel Headlam Hall. We've been working with them ever since and have updated their website four times at the last count.

We start to expand, both in what we do and who we do it for, with the launch our first e-commerce website for Edinburgh based Clare Florist.

We moved to a bigger office on Tubwell Row in Darlington.

We celebrated our fifth birthday, Sarah had joined the company by now.

The Adventure Toys website won the Internet Award, at the North East Business Awards.   We went to the awards ceremony with confidence - all three of the shortlisted websites were our clients!

Moving with the times we launched our first XHTML website.

We expanded again, and moved to 1 Bondgate in Darlington.

We celebrated our tenth birthday, the company had grown to nine people.

We launched a new website for Durham School, making the most of the latest, massive, 800 pixel wide monitors...

We created the Seymours Home website. This would be the first of four redesigns for them with a single CMS powering two other websites.

Hello Newcastle! We opened our Newcastle office.

We're at the forefront of modern technology, our first HTML5 website went live!

We ditched table based layouts and started to use CSS3 to round every corner that we could find...

You can now carry websites around in your pocket! We created our first mobile friendly, responsive website, for JPLC.

We're leading the way - this month's .net magazine featured our guide on how to create responsive websites.

We launched the new website for Bannatyne Hotels, Fitness Clubs and Spas.

The Workwear Express website went live, building on our experience of integrating complex e-commerce websites with third party back office systems.

We launched our first Laravel framework based website for Burts.

We turned twenty! There are sixteen of us now, and the future is looking as exciting as ever.

New offices! The Newcastle team move to new offices in Generator Studios, down by the Newcastle Quayside.

New offices again! The Darlington team move to into a new office at Business Central.

We redesigned our own website, six years after the previous version.

We took on more developers to cope with the more complicated work we're doing.  There are eighteen of us now.

Covid restrictions meant we had to work remotely

We launched our SEO portal so our clients can see the search engine optimisation work we do for them and track their google positions.

Five star!  We've now had over twenty five-star reviews across our two offices from happy customers.