Web design & hosting

Whether you want a simple family website, an interactive business site, or your own online store - we can do everything from registering the domain(s) and setting up your email, to designing, installing and launching your site.

Yes, we’re Mac geeks. But when we’re talking about websites, it doesn’t matter what operating system you use.

At MacWorkshop we create beautiful, functional websites. The website you’re viewing right now is of course our own design - inspired by the Aqua theme of Mac OS X. We use well supported, stable, open-source tools and technologies for our websites. This allows us to create websites unique to you, without locking your data into proprietary standards. We use XHTML and CSS to design your website, and our own code and all the open-source frameworks use PHP and MySQL to run it. We can take care of everything, from start to finish. Our focus is on creating websites that allow you to take advantage of the marketing and networking potential of the internet with the minimum of effort.

Our website package includes:

  • Hosting of domain(s) as necessary;
  • Initial design and customisation of your site to your liking;
  • Installation onto our fast, secure, reliable web servers;
  • 12 months of web hosting - unlimited space & bandwidth;
  • Registration and management of DNS entries (we do the messy stuff);
  • Unlimited email addresses - access via webmail, POP and/or IMAP;
  • Setup of FTP (if needed) with unlimited accounts and bandwidth;
  • 12 months of technical support and site management - we won’t leave you out in the cold.

Your new website - from £575

All our websites are built around our own customised version of the WordPress blogging engine. You retain complete editorial control of your site, via an admin area that you can access from any web browser - no technical experience necessary. You can keep your visitors updated via RSS, newsletters, etc. The website you’re currently viewing is built around WordPress and utilises a number of extra functions that we have built in.

Here are some examples of additional functionality that we can add to your site:

  • A customised iPhone/iPod Touch theme (visit this site from your iPhone/iPod Touch to see an example of this in action)
  • Shopping carts with PayPal & Google Checkout integration
  • Advanced galleries for any type of media
  • Forums
  • Profiles and related social networking functionality

Whatever type of website you would like, please contact us in the first instance to discuss your needs. We also provide a fully managed web, FTP and email hosting service on secure, multiple-failover protected servers. We are currently building a dedicated site for these services - in the meantime, please contact us to discuss your requirements.