SmiffytechTechnology Consulting & Web Application Development

Welcome

Welcome to Smiffytech - my web application development and technology consulting business. I offer both a complete accessible web solutions development service and a back-end only software development service (Perl, PHP, MySQL) for web developers.

In addition to my core business of software development, I also offer consultancy services across a broad range of technologies.

Services

  • Complete web application design including content management, e-commerce, survey systems, telemetry, educational, social networking and other solutions.
  • Web application back-end design
  • Consultancy in Unix-derived operating systems
  • SQL database design
  • Network design
  • Web spider and other automated user agent design
  • Web and software interface accessibility/usability analysis and repair
  • Web-based engineering and scientific calculators and configurators

Technologies

  • Unix-derived operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris)
  • Apache HTTPd
  • MySQL (and other SQLs)
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • E-mail (Postfix, Courier IMAP, DSPAM, SPF)
  • XHTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • XUL (Firefox, Thunderbird extensions)

Further Reading

For my full curriculum vitae, please see my LinkedIn Profile. All my articles on accessiblity and the web may be found at Smiffy's Place, my blog and personal site.

Latest Articles at Smiffy's Place

  • Am I Too Slow? - This article tells how the accessibility and usability of web content may be impacted by speed issue from various causes. The article goes on to explain how speed may be measured or estimated and how the various causes may be addressed.
  • Metadata, meta tags, meta what? - demystifying the use of various things meta in web documents.
  • Saying Whoops, Nicely - a guide to accessible error-handling in Web applications.
 

Affiliations

  • Guild of Accessible Web Designers
  • Web Standards Group Member - Web Standards Group
  • OzeWAI - the Australian Web Access Initiative

Matthew Steven Smith t/a Smiffytech ABN 16 391 203 815