DB Gurus specialise in developing data driven websites and web based business solutions.
Each site is individually crafted to your exact requirements using your design ideas. Instead of using fixed templates we have a "toolbox" of common components that can quickly and easily be "plugged in" (and customised if necessary). | AJAX for a smoother, faster experience
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Standard Features
 Content Management
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Edit your own website online, instantly
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| Automated emails | 
Send password reminders, sign up details, news-letters or email-shots
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Customised Content | 
Use templates and values from your database (using stored procedures) to personalise your emails or web content
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| Asset Manager | 
Our "asset manager" allows you to upload and manage your files as well as include images (with preview).
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Sortable and Searchable | 
Almost every column is sortable by default and you can have as many searchable columns as you like |
| AJAX Enabled | 
In order to reduce the post-backs and provide a more dynamic experience all of our new sites are now AJAX enabled |
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Export Options | 
Reporting either via PDF, HTML or Excel |
| And more... | - Role based security
- Password Reminder
- Remember Me checkbox
- User Admin
- Page Counters
- Contact Us forms
- Ecommerce
- Credit card payments
- System settings
- META tags
- Google adwords
- Search engine optimisation
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Why choose a web based solution?
- Easy deployment. Web based solutions only need to be deployed to one location - on to the web server and we can do that for you. There is no need to install it on every machine.
- Easy Versioning - all users use the same version and updates are easy to manage.
- Almost unlimited number of users - web applications can be scaled up to huge numbers of users.
- Accessible anywhere - anywhere that has an internet connection that is.
- Security - using a SQL Server (or MySQL) backend and secure web forms your application and data will be safe.
Technical Details
Database
Behind the scenes of our data driven websites we use powerful and extensible database engines (normally Microsoft SQL Server). These give you the results you need in the minimum time as well as allow unrestricted growth. We have even automated many parts of the database development to reduce the development cycle and keep costs down.
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 / 3.5
Our web based solutions are developed using the latest version of Microsoft's flagship development platform: Visual Studio, ASP.net and C# runnings on the .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.5
IronSpeed
To really speed up development of our data-drive websites we use a Rapid Application Development tool called IronSpeed. See their website for details. This allows us to create something like 90% of the web pages directly from the database for data intensive websites (there are often a lot of boring maintenance screens). More details
Hosting
You have 3 options for hosting:
- Host it yourself if you have your own webserver
- Host on a 3rd party dedicated server
- Share a public web host such as DiscountASP.net