ancillary services



Whilst the design and functionality of your website are paramount to success so too are the supporting factors which constitute your presence on the web as a whole.

To begin with you’ll need a name for your site which we can register for you. You’ll also need to make it available to the internet community 24/7 which is where one of our specialist Microsoft web servers will come in handy. You’re bound to need some new email accounts to go with your new site which is a lucky coincidence since we provide these, and if you need to incorporate an SMS text facility in your site that’s one of our specialities too.

Finally, when you need to keep an eye on your visitors we can provide detailed monitoring reports and if this leads you to believe your site is not attracting as many visitors as it might we can help generate some new ones.



At Katatomic we operate a number of Windows 2003 dedicated web servers to host customer websites and provide email services. These have been procured specifically to provide the very best service for our customers.

Commercial hosting companies have a vested interest in maximising the number of client sites they squeeze onto their servers - this will obviously have a bearing on performance. We want our client's web presences to snap open as quickly as possible and our investment in dedicated servers purely for clients for whom we design and develop not only ensures this, but also means we have total administrative control rather than problematically attempting to work through a third party.

Server features include:- four separate connectivity providers to maximise availability and redundancy, location in a secure data-centre with 24 hour on-site presence, air-conditioning, fire and lightening protection, back-up generators, and 24 hour network monitoring. All servers are fully patched and are regularly assessed for security vulnerabilities.

As for email we can provide POP3 and SMTP services and can integrate with in house MS Exchange servers where required.

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Unlike many other design agencies we are members of Nominet (the UK Internet Names Organisation) and as such we can register your chosen UK Domain Name with ease.

Our membership means we register your name directly and not via a third party thereby ensuring the job is done right first time and that any changes can be actioned quickly. Similarly, since we buy direct our fees are competitive and we do not penalise clients who wish to move their domain to a different ISP at a later date. We are not a volume reseller - our investment in Nominet membership is simply to ensure the best possible service for our customers.

Naturally, we also register all International domain names including; .com, .net, and .org.

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We are helping a growing number of our clients benefit from the power of SMS text messaging by integrating this technology into their web solutions.

The possible applications for this technology are vast, but in broad terms SMS can either be used as a communication tool between you and your clients (or staff) or as an additional revenue stream by utilisation of premium rate SMS.

In some instances, SMS delivery may represent a small but nonetheless useful enhancement to a site as a whole. Conversely, we have clients where SMS forms the cornerstone of their online business model resulting in thousands of texts being sent to customers each day.

The broadcast of a text message need not simply be a one way event. We have developed the functionality for the recipient of a text message to, in certain circumstances respond to the text to set in motion a further set of events.

The possible applications are huge.

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So you've got a great site.

In artistic magnificence it rivals the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In wealth of information it puts the fabled Library of Alexandria to shame.

Big deal. If you get no visitors, why bother?

So many internet projects flounder simply because traffic generation has been ignored. Fortunately, we can help here too. Katatomic specialise in driving targeted traffic to your internet presence, both by optimising the code of the pages themselves at the design stage but also by assisting in successful submission to the UK orientated Search Engines. Pay per click strategies can also prove highly successful.

There is no single magic solution to developing good site traffic, conversely, the answer usually lies in adopting a number of different techniques appropriate to the nature and volume of visitor you wish to attract.

We will discuss all the current options available and help develop and manage an internet marketing campaign to get your website noticed.

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How can you judge the effectiveness or otherwise of your website if you know nothing about the nature or volume of visitors to your site? The simple answer is you can't.

You might think the 50 sales per day from your ecommerce site is good. Would you still think that if you knew you received 50,000 hits per day. Similarly you might think the investment you made to be included in an online directory was good. Would you still think that if you knew your site never received a single hit via that inclusion?

This is why our traffic monitoring service is such a useful tool in ascertaining the success and popularity of your site. We can provide (either as a hard copy report or via an on-line facility) details of not only how many visitors your site receives but also where they come from. You can distinguish between those who came via a Search Engine and those who typed in your name directly, i.e. by reading it from your literature or other forms of advertising. You can also see what search words were typed in to find your site along with a host of other useful information.

This outlines how well your site is performing and identifies not only weaknesses but also areas of potential opportunity.

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