What We Do
e-Path is a web development business in Leicester. We specialise
in technical aspects of web development but work with other design companies to
provide excellent creative work, just as we sometimes provide excellent technical
work for those creative companies.
AJAX and Javascript. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is
very popular for making website smoother and adding fancy visual effects without
the use of plug-ins such as Flash. One example would be a list of products that
has paging by using AJAX the pages could be change without requiring the whole page
to reload.
JSON. We use JSON for transmitting data within JavaScript and to
and from the ASP.NET application and the client side AJAX.
ASP.NET 2 and ASP.NET 3.5. ASP.NET is by far the best language
for creating web applications that use server side processing. We our outstanding
ASP.NET developers. We use C# for our ASP.NET development.
MS SQL Server. Microsoft SQL Server is an extremely powerful database
server. We use SQL Server where database are needed by the web applications such
as content managed site or where data is collected from users. SQL Server is accessed
by ASP.NET.
HTML (hypertext mark-up language). We hand code all of our website
rather than using editors which produce messy inefficient HTML. We tend to use XHTML
1.0 or XHTML 1.1 in our build. By hand coding pages we can improve accessibility,
reduce download times and make the site easier for search engines to scan.
CSS. CSS is used to style the HTML. Using CSS files help to keep
the style of the website consistent, removes style information from the HTML and
thus reduces page size, improves accessibility and search engine optimisation and
makes the site easy to alter by other developers.
XML and XSLT. We use XML for transmitting data and sometimes storing
data. In many projects we will use XSLT for styling XML data into a HTML page or
styling RSS or other XML feeds.
Search Engines. We optimise all our sites for search engines.
Design. Due to the fact we are a small organisation and specialise
in technical aspects we usually out-source our design to companies in our
client list.