Wired Nomad is a new media company with a difference - we don't come exclusively from a technical or a creative background - we offer comprehensive new media services that benefit from an understanding of marketing in the digital era.
There are various strands to our service - web design, consultancy, site promotion, document conversion, multimedia, databases - and you can find out more about our technical offering.
The company was set up way back in March 1997 and our range of clients and solutions is testimony to how we have gone as far as we have today.
Consultancy
There are many companies who can design a website, and others that can build you a functional site with content management and e-commerce. But I like to think that by examining your business and answering your questions first I can establish a relationship that will help my business grow by helping your business grow.
Given my length of experience of the Internet (since 1994 when Netscape hadn't even released version 1 of Navigator and Bill Gates didn't rate the web), and my varied client list, I (with a team of colleagues) provide consultancy services to clients on strategy, start-ups, e-commerce, and increasingly on the subject of making websites accessible.
I have also (successfully) provided consultancy to organisations wishing to obtain funding from the National Heritage Lottery Fund.
If you want to know how to get answers to your questions, e-mail me now on on the link at the foot of the page. And ask me how an information audit can help your business develop on the web.
Document Conversion
So what does that actually mean? Over the years I've had to find elegant solutions to complex problems, and offer clients simple solutions that might otherwise entail a high investment from their side in software, training or kit.
So I offer document (including OCR) and image scanning, saved to whatever format you want. Any file (Office, DTP, graphic) saved to Acrobat pdf. Anything taken out of Acrobat pdf (text and images) and saved to web, text, Word, image file...
Then moving on to multimedia - I can convert VHS video to digital format and output to CD-ROM, DVD or web. Or back-up DV tape to DVD (DVD+R, DVD-R or DVD/RW). Or convert audio cassette (analogue to digital) adn Mini-disc tapes (digital to digital) and output similarly to CD-ROM, DVD, mp3, streaming media (Windows Media Player, RealAudio). I've even converted LP's to mp3 for web use (copyright acknowledged by client!)
That's the easy part. Images can be retouched to remove blemishes, red-eye, creases and more. Audio can be filtered and improved to remove pops and crackles. Video can be cut and edited, soundtracks and effects added, short movies compiled, with captions, titling, credits...
Just ask.
Databases
From simple catalogues and shopping carts to full blown commercial sites we can take you where you want to go...
- build a catalogue
- create a shopping cart or advise you on off-the-shelf packages
- take you through the security processes - Verisign, SSL, WorldPay, SECPay - and other payment systems for online verification and authorisation
- help raise your visibility to the shopping robots that bring together price comparisons and portal shopping sites
Wired Nomad are equipped, with their partners, to deliver your database over the internet - we take you through the steps, helping you decide:
- how much data will you store
- how often it be updated
- how many concurrent users are expected
- simple or advanced searching requirements
We can also construct on-line databases from scratch for clients who have data in a less organised structure.
Have a look at:
Edinburgh Book Festival Media Site
Searchable database of over 100 audio, video and podcast files from the last few years of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, built on the open-source Drupal content management system.
Caritas Music Publishing
Publisher's catalogue using a Javascript routine to allow users to place and modify orders for music, CDs, cassettes etc., on-line payment via PayPal credit card authorisation.
Rob Wilson Images
Image bank of 700+ photographs, searchable by keyword, on-line ordering, now including secure payment through SECPay.
ScotAsh
User registration area to allow download of lab reports and documents to individual clients.
Kinniburgh Pools
Simple news management module with image upload.
PHP
PHP is today's fastest-growing technology for dynamic Web pages.
Wired Nomad are pleased to offer PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other Web applications. Unlike other scripting languages for Web page development, PHP offers excellent connectivity to most of the common databases (including Oracle, Sybase, mySQL, Postgres, ODBC and many others).
PHP is the natural choice for Linux machines running Apache server software, but runs equally well on any other UNIX or Windows platform. PHP is today's fastest-growing technology for dynamic Web pages... the number of Web sites using PHP is growing at a rate of 20% per month.
PHP allows us to provide clients with easy to manage dynamic solutions for areas such as shopping carts, form processing, mailing list management and discussion forums of varying complexity.
