However, we can also create a bespoke database solution to provide all sorts of functionality where either there is no online selling at all, or where the online sales are a relatively minor part of the project.

We use "industry standard" MySQL database technologies coupled with either Perl or PHP programming languages. Our Perl skills and experience are far more advanced than most of our competitors, and in fact Actinic solutions rely on Perl.

Typical examples of the sort of database driven websites that we can create (where e-commerce is not the main function) include.

• Online booking facilities (theatre tickets and hotel accommodation for example). Here both capacity and calendar information is combined to show availability.
   
• Estate Agents sites - where there is a requirement to provide people with the facility to locate houses of a certain type, in a certain area and within a certain price range.
   
• Content management systems.
   
• Auction Sites.
   
• Online Accounting Systems.
   
• "Locate nearest outlet based on post code".
   
• Gaming and gambling sites.

Our database solutions can form part of a web site that is available to the world, or be part of an intranet - only available internally (as would be typical of an accounting system).

Some systems are used both internally and over the Internet - such as ticket booking services where some people are booking online, and others over the phone or in person. This is where the boundaries between the Internet and Internal Company Systems can become blurred. We have experience with this sort of scenario.