Internet Technology Services

What we do

We offer a comprehensive range of services, designed to take the headache out of making use of new technologies.

Getting started on the Internet

If you are considering upgrading your web presence for your organisation, I can advise on the best way to get started, suggest a service provider that meets your needs, and help you to register an appropriate domain name. As a result of interest expressed by many of our clients we now offer web hosting services. We have taken the time to research the options available and developed a hosting plan that offers lots of features and that doesn't cost the earth. We currently offer a web hosting package where you only pay the administrative costs of setting up a hosting account for you and your first year's hosting is free of charge,

Website creation and development

We can create a web site, and teach you how to maintain it yourself, or we can provide a maintenance solution for you. If your organisation has been online for a while and you feel that your site needs some attention, we can do that for you too.

Metadata development and advice

Metadata - data about data, is becoming increasingly important. Appropriate metadata can improve your rankings in search engines, and is essential for resource discovery in specialist portals such as the Victorian Education Channel. We have worked on a number of metadata projects, including projects for the Victorian Department of Education and the National Gallery of Victoria, and have also created some free metadata creation tools that you are welcome to download or use online.

Multimedia creation

We can develop audio and video files for your website or CD-ROM, and arrange for hosting of these files on a streaming server if needed. We can also produce VHS or Digital Video tapes if needed.

Getting noticed

When your site is up and running, it is essential that your existing and potential clients can find it easily. We can assist with positioning techniques and the inclusion of metadata that will considerably improve your ranking in search engines, making your site that much easier to find.

CD-ROM design

Sometimes, an online presence isn't exactly what you need. If you have large amounts of content that you want distributed to a specific group, you may find that a CD-ROM is a better alternative. Large documents, video clips, confidential material that shouldn't be available to everyone, and files that are just too big to easily download from a web site, can all be delivered to a specific audience, regardless of whether they have an Internet connection or not. We can design and produce CD-ROMs to your exact needs, in quantities as small as 10 or as large as 10,000!

Name Tag and Business Card CD-ROMs

Our business card CD-ROMs can hold up to 52MB of information (the equivalent of 36 floppy disks). Roughly the size of a conventional business card, these discs fit into the central indentation of tray loading CD drives - the most common type of CD drive currently used in computers. Our discs will work in Macintosh and PC computers.

They are an impressive alternative to business cards, and are increasingly being used as name tags at conferences, as they can also include an electronic copy of the conference proceedings.

The Multilingual web

The Internet is changing! Research indicates that by 2003 more than 50% of Internet users will have a language other than English as their primary language. Internet Technology Services staff have been involved with the development of websites in languages other than English since 1996 . We can create individual web pages in the languages appropriate to your target audience, or we can rework your entire site. Rather than a web address in English, it is now possible to have an address in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, as well as many northern European and Cryllic languages. We offer advice and assistance in registering Multilingual Domain Names in just about any commonly used language. We are committed to providing access to Web resources using languages other than English. Peter Batchelor was an inaugural board member and Secretary of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium.

Accessibility

It is extremely important that pages in your site load quickly and are readable by your entire audience. We develop accessible, well structured sites that make use of graphics only where they are important. This ensures that our sites will load quickly regardless of the speed of the Internet connection being used, preventing users giving up and going somewhere else. Another benefit of this approach is that our sites will be easy to use and view on a variety of browsing platforms, further improving accessibility and usability for all of your clients.