Dark Pixel is pleased to announce a partnership with south coast based VW Mk1 golf specialists. Dark Pixel is now the sole web host management company, and will be providing 1golfahead.co.uk with some new back end systems to help aid their search engine optimisation (SEO). 1golfahead.co.uk have also commissioned Dark Pixel to setting up their new product line, and online store. Congrats to Ricky Gane for bringing another interesting company under our helpful services

An insight into 1golfahead.co.uk:

We are a small friendly company based on the south coast of England in the town of Bournemouth. We have a large stock of Mk1 golf parts including cabriolets and GTIs. We are at most shows up and down the country and should be able to supply you with most parts to maintain that daily driver or to get your show winner ready for the show season. We look forward to your custom and building on our rapidly growing reputation for providing quality parts at a reasonable price.

Welcome, and Dark Pixel is looking forward to some great new things from 1golfahead.co.uk.

If any of our clients are interested in the products that 1golfahead.co.uk sell (product page) please contact;
Brian: 07779 246496
email: scouse4uk@btinternet.com

Dark Pixel is pleased to announce a partnership with south coast based VW upholstering and interior refit specialists. Dark Pixel is now the sole web host management company, and will be providing totallytrimmed.co.uk with some new back end systems to help aid their search engine optimisation (SEO).

An insight into totallytrimmed.co.uk:

Welcome to the Totally trimmed website

We specialise in upholstering and interior refits. We have the facilities for a
complete refit from headlining to panel replacement together with all the finishing touches

Alternatively we are happy to supply new replacement interior panels for DIY

Our passion for Volkswagens means we can offer a great friendly service
to help you get your dream interior

Welcome, and Dark Pixel is looking forward to some great new things from totallytrimmed.co.uk.

If any of our clients are interested in the products that totallytrimmed.co.uk sell (product page) please contact;
Katie: 07900 892362
email: totallytrimmed@yahoo.co.uk
(And mention Dark Pixel will ya!)

It needn’t be so scary, these days creating a very functional website is actually quite simple. The runaway technologies that open source communities have brought have created many platforms to launch excellent websites. All you need is a fairly cheap and cheerful hosting service, most allow direct installs on various Content Management Systems (or CMS).

Have I lost you? Don’t worry, you don’t need to grasp the full concept, all you need to understand is the statement… Content. That’s the key. The good old days of website building involved heavily knowledgeable computer programming for complex websites. HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, you name the language, most web architects had to learn a vast array of technologies, and use them in tandem to build a site. This is still case, but thousands of people now write code for open source projects, and make these projects available to anyone who would like to use them. This enables the average Joe Blogger to use these projects and create a site that would have taken 10 years to create, in 15 minutes. And most importantly allows you to control the content that goes into your site. You update it, you control it, with intuitive interfaces that anybody will be able to learn.

One of these great projects is WordPress.org. WordPress is a vast Content Management System, with a massive following and a huge community of very talented web developers. The standard installation will give you plenty of functionality, but you can extend the system to any function you require. From accounting, to online stores, to portfolio galleries. Its an endless pit of fantastic ideas and functions, backed by people willing to help.

Where do we fit into this world of exciting code sharing? Well we have hosting partners with excellent supportive services. We have the technical know-how to to setup up any one of the open source options out there. We also have skills in coding and design, so we can take these standard installations and make them your own. We will brand them to suit any existing corporate identities, or we offer a full service from ground up. Including logo design, stationery, advertising material and brochures. We will help you choose the right modules to suit your business needs, and we can make the site look the way you want it to look. There are ways of integrating WordPress into existing websites and taking existing designs and applying these to the WordPress standard templates to create your corporate feel. You can even keep your existing website and add all this great back-end functionality to beef up your online offerings.

If you are thinking about a website, it really makes sense to choose a site that you can control without a huge amount of coding. Most importantly taking very many hours out of your business generating days!

We can help at any point of your venture… give us a call.

Mark Pearson
Technical Director
Dark Pixel Digital Services
07901 825 844

Ricky Gane
Creative Director
Dark Pixel Digital Services
07840 013 883

More details (Both Technical and Financial) are available, just get in contact.

Gail from Designer Bookkeeping had a request to simplify her accounting systems, and possibly reduce overheads by instituting an alternative to main stream accounting packages. Everyone knows that accounting software is necessary and expensive. Especially for multiple company solutions, which all accountants and bookkeepers require.

Luckily Dark Pixel’s open source web application experience provided an interesting solution. We use an open source accounting package called webERP (http://www.weberp.org/HomePage) in house. Using a little technical know how and a few days worth of configuration, we provided Designer Bookkeeping a solution that allows and infinite amount of companies in a single accounting package. We installed this locally, creating a ‘single’ machine intranet, using MAMP (http://www.mamp.info) to control the local web environment.

Just goes to show that web solutions and applications don’t need to be live on the Internet. Using the open source web technology to replace main stream software expenses is something that is very achievable.

For more details, feel free to get in contact.

We hope to work with Designer Bookkeeping again the the future.

If any of our customers are looking for a quality Bookkeeper, Dark Pixel recommends calling Gail on 07919 915228.