Dial Solutions: Website development

Dial Solutions have been developing web sites and web applications for over 10 years. Their first interactive educational website, www.dtonline.org, went live in the mid-1990s, and the very same cgi code is still running to this day.

Because of it's historical links with software for the classroom, much of Dial's web development has been for clients in the education sector, and includes a mix of sophisticated client side Java applets for sophisticated classroom activities, and server side technologies including PHP and MySQL.

Dial Solutions host and maintain many of their clients websites on their own servers and ensure the highest levels of security. All work is hosted on the GNU/Linux operating system to take advantage of the zero licencing cost, and the high levels of performance, reliability and security that the platform provides.

Here is a list of a representative selection of some of Dial's work to date. Note that some of the sites are very old - from when web standards were not what they are today! All current web work is fully XHTML compliant. Also note that due to data licencing or privacy restictions, some of the websites, or portions of the websites are not publicly visible without proper authentication.

Website	Client	Features/notes
www.dtonline.org	NAAIDT	Information for use by D&T students in the classroom. Browser based design tools including a circuit designer and a Java parametric CAD system for packaging design. Contributory structures database.
www.n-yorks.net	North Yorkshire LEA	Contributory databases, training course advertising and bookings, health and safety monitoring, tracking schools' compliance with various government requirements. GIS system. Forums. Moderated registration system.
www.naaidt.org.uk	NAAIDT	Contributory databases, forums, membership list, integration with mailing lists and email forwarding.
www.durhamlea.org.uk	Durham LEA	Contributory databases, forums, 80000 user email and webmail system. Authentication system shared across mail and web services. Integration with weather data from the council's road condition monitoring service. Questionnaire system.
schools.durhamlea.org.uk	Durham LEA	System to allow Durham schools to easily generate and cutomise their own websites.
www.thoroughbredinternet.com	Barnes Sherer Thompson	Adverts, racing results, huge equine genealogy database, and just about everything connected with the racing industry.
www.dialsolutions.com/af/	Atrial Fibrillation support group	A research tool which collects information from sufferers of atrial fibrillation all around the world. The collected data can be searched, interrogated, and the results saved as a CSV file for processing in other applications.
www.dialsolutions.com/wegister/	The Learning Machine	A free GPL'd web based school registration system. For more details contact The Learning Machine.
YHGFL GIS Site(not publicly visible for data licencing reasons)	YHGFL	A large GIS system with Ordnance Survey vector and bitmap data, and overhead photographs of the region held in a large searchable database. A custom Java applet provides cross-platform browser based access to the data with control over layer visibility, opacity, zoom, measuring tools and more.
NAACE newsletter generator(not publicly visible)	NAACE	A web based tool to generate the weekly members' newsletters, outputting a range of standards compliant formats.