altFusion has a new website.

All of us at altFusion are proud to announce that our new website has been launched. When altFusion started out we initially put up a website that, it can be argued was only suitable for search engine spiders, and wasn’t interesting to look at from a human point of view. The initial intention was to have something that gave us web presence and experiment with different search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques. It allowed us to understand and play with different online tools, but it became apparent that nobody wanted to look around it. You can shoe horn in as many effects and technical tricks on a web page as you like, but the resulting content may not be something that will draw attention. Realising that the internet is after all, supposed to be a tool that makes life easier and more interesting for humans, not search engines, we came to a point where we needed to update our website.

Since David and Lindsay made the leap from freelancers to company directors, they have learnt a lot about running an IT solutions business. One thing in particular was knowing what does and doesn’t work on a graphical user interface such as a website, but also recognising that a good software engineer doesn’t automatically make a good graphics designer. Luckily for us we have come into contact with some excellent graphic designers who solved that problem for us. Originally we contracted out to Victoria who did a sterling job on the original template ideas, and now we have Darren as a more permanent member on board our team. He is a fantastic designer with an excellent eye for a clean layout, and possesses the skills to turn any idea into a slick looking well presented interface.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everybody on the altFusion team who have all had their input to the new website. Please take some time to have a glance over it. Leave us a comment if you like, letting us know what you think. If you wanted to compare it to some of the earlier iterations of our website then you can check them out on the Wayback machine here.

Please take a glance over the new website here.

The altFusion team.