The Floating Frog

We're passionate about design, technology, usability and standards

...YES! It's a bath toy, but it has a purpose!

"The Floating Frog" was inspired by a 2 year old's bath toy - a frog using a squid as a rubber ring.

It occurred that this is like any website - a website has two sides to it, the FRONTEND (the bits you can see!) and the BACKEND (the bits you can't).

Let's compare the bath toy to this scenario. The FROG is the FRONTEND and the SQUID is the BACKEND, clear?

THE FROG

The frog's main role is to produce a professional looking website that adheres to W3C accessibility standards, the website then becomes beautiful both to the eye and beneath the surface.

All current websites are built with CSS and XHTML which has the following benefits:

  • Seperates content from layout, enabling complete control
  • Faster loading web pages
  • Dynamic layout changes without any additional coding or complicated scripts (just like how this website allows the user to change the website's colour scheme and font sizes)
  • High-resolution printing, text-only pages, again using the same code
  • Quick layout and content changes that would normally be time-consuming
  • Accessible to the visually impaired (Bobby accessibility)
  • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  • Section 508 accessibility

THE SQUID

The squid (the developer/s!) does all the functional, dynamic stuff that brings websites to life. The squid is proud to work with PHP and MySQL. These are powerful, open-source components that set the foundations in place for dynamic website development. Using open-source technologies removes the burden of having to pay expensive licensing fees, while enabling us to use the latest tools to create your ideal website.

Example solutions:

  • Content Management systems (CMS), take control over your website, avoiding the need for costly updates
  • ECommerce, start and run your business online with complete control over updating products, processing orders and managing stock levels
  • Customer web contact forms, allowing visitors to contact you via email with or without an email account
  • Dynamic news, keeping your website, and your customers, up-to-date
  • Blogs, an informal way to keep people up-to-date with those day-to-day happenings in your business, a method which is currently very popular in many businesses across the world
  • Custom development, making up the vast majority of work undertaken, we specialise in giving you exactly what you want, whatever that may be

Checkout 9XB Ltd, your first choice for web solutions!

Frog's 'Top Trump' Stats

NAME: Gary Hartley
ADDRESS: North Yorkshire, UK.

HEIGHT: 5 11"
BUILD: MEDIUM
Eye colour: Blue

Commercial experience: 6 years

CURRENT EMPLOYER:
9XB Ltd

Squid's 'Top Trump' Stats

NAME: Stephen O'Neill
ADDRESS: East Yorkshire, UK.

HEIGHT: 5 11"
BUILD: MEDIUM
Eye colour: Blue

Commercial experience: 5 years

CURRENT EMPLOYER:
Azzurri Education

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