About Us

I have over thirty years experience in computing, including digital, and analogue electronics, robotics, programming, system configuration, and system administration. I can remember owning a Sinclair ZX81, when file storage was hit or miss on an audio cassette, and the only screen output was a television in mono, and If i recall correctly, it came with a massive 1K of memory. Then moving on to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and then PC's with dos, then msdos, followed by Windows, and Linux.

I have been building PC's and Servers for myself, and customers for over twenty years, as well as installing, and configuring networks, and all kinds of computer related equipment.

Before access to the Internet became widely available, I remember using Bulletin Board Systems, CompuServe, and America Online to share files and exchange messages connecting via modems and phone lines. As far as I recall everything was text only until Mosaic, and Netscape web browsers appeared as GUI's in the early 1990's.

I have been building websites since the 1990's, starting with the good old text editor, I have been working with Joomla, its components, modules, plugins and templates since it evolved as a fork of Mambo in 2005, prior to that I gained several years CMS experience with Mambo and also Typo3.

I have now built, managed, and worked on several hundred Joomla sites, and have become a Joomla Specialist, taking on all kinds of Joomla related projects, including building new websites, migrating existing websites to Joomla, troubleshooting existing Joomla sites, maintaining, backing up and updating Joomla sites,and fixing server, hosting, and security related issues.

I have existing live sites, and also sites to test modifications prior to adding them to my customers sites. I also have a lot of experience moving Joomla sites from one host to another. I am experienced with stand alone Joomla sites on linux servers, dedicated linux servers, vps, and also Joomla sites within Cpanel and Plesk environments.

I have trained a small team, who along with myself manage and take care of Joomla sites, and their servers 12-16 hours a day, usually 7 days a week. We work on at least ten sites on a weekly basis, plus sites that only need work when updates are released or when a customer requests additional functionality, or reports a problem.

This enables us to work very efficiently as lots of issues with versions, updates, templates, menus, components, modules, and plugins are common on many installations.

We provide my customers with a secure private support forum where apart from documenting all changes, bugs can be reported, questions asked, and additional features can be requested.

Portsmouth Computing

Testimonials

  • Joomla Expert Needed Urgently!! +

    “Wow you sure know your stuff, well done, I had two other contractors spend a week between them trying to fix my sites, I've no idea how you did it in less than ten hours, and fully document the fixes, many thanks, will use you again, Awesome!!.”

    Chicago, Illinois, USA

     

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  • Joomla site with Community Builder +

    “Andrew is a pleasure to work with, this was completion of the initial Phase of the project; I will be working with Andrew again on the next phase. I highly recommend his services, if given the opportunity to work with him you will be better for the experience."

    Long Island, USA

    PROJECT INFORMATION

    We require a hard working, hands on, dedicated and experienced Joomla programmer. We will require availability during US Est. work hours. We will require a weekly Skype call to update project staus, the selected provider will be required to provide a written agenda prior to our weekly conferance call.

    Provider will be required to furnish an estimate of hours, and a delivery schedule with specific milestone dates indicating deliverables required by site owner, i.e. content, etc. Any deviance from the schedule should be communicated well ahead of the milestone date and a reason provided for the deviation. Failure to meet deadlines will be grounds to dissolve the agreement.

    Provider must be comfortable utilizing the Elance Workview system as all hours must be billed via Workview System

    Job Description:
    We require development of a complete Joomla site with select integrated "plug-ins"

    We are looking for a programmer with experience in Joomla and related plug-ins, such as CB, CB Sub, OSE, etc., to develop our website.

    The priorities in the selection will be: commitment to completion schedule, estimated hours to complete, previous projects completed with positive feedback and years of experience with the technologies.

    Content will come from pre-existing Photos, newsletters and articles; additional content to be secured via third party content provider.

    The development will be done during the next two months and there will probably be updates for a period thereafter.

    Complete details of site layout and features will be available to those candidates that are shortlisted.

    Skills Required:
    joomla, css, website-development, web-design, php, html

    Your responsibilities:

    We expect clean, well-commented code that adheres to the current Joomla coding standards. Provider will be responsible for unit testing all code based on agreed upon specifications. All code will be expected to have cross-browser functionality in Firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 7+, Safari 4+, Chrome 5.0+, and Mobile compatibility.

    Providers should provide examples and/or references of previous work with a similar scope.

    • Review business requirements working with stakeholders - Perform a technical analysis of requirements
    • Produce a solid, detailed technical design
    • Write clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision
    • Contribute ideas for making the application better and easier to use
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  • Joomla website maintenance +

    “I'm very impressed with this provider. Very prompt, organized and professional. We now use him exclusively for all of our web projects.”

    New York, USA

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  • Upgrade, and relocate Joomla +

    “I highly recommend Andrew. He completely understands what you need, communicates very clearly and delivers what you expect. I had to upgrade Joomla, upgrade our blogging platform, use a new template and back up and move over my site. There were all sorts of problems and challenges. Andrew knocked off each one, communicated consistently, even over the Holidays. He was also great about "teaching me how to fish".. meaning, he's great at educating. He also documents everything he does so you can refer back to it. I can't imagine having to go through what I did with a non-English speaker especially with the complexity involved. I've done that before and it didn't work out well. I couldn't be happier with the results.”

    New York, New York, USA

     

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