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About Ethical Internet

Who?

Ethical Internet is a website provision and support service, started in 2003 by Peter Richardson. You can read more background info if you are interested.

Where?

As of June 2010, we are now based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. We were previously based near Milton Keynes and still have strong local links there. Our customers are local and national.

Why?

We want to provide the easiest to use, most effective web tools to ethical organisations at affordable prices. With expert support included in the price. That way, any small or medium-sized ethical organisation can run a constantly-up-to-date, genuinely inclusive interactive website (and/or intranet), without spending a fortune on IT staff, consultants, or software.

How?

Our sites use our content management system ('cms'), called SiteMachine. This enables you to change or add pages, rearrange website sections and subsections, upload files, restore old versions of pages, control who can edit different sections of the website, and so on, all using only your web browser, without any technical knowledge.

We originally wrote SiteMachine in the year 2000(!) using a powerful web programming language called ColdFusion, and the open source database MySql. From October 2006 onwards, all our new sites have been created using MySql and SmPHP, the new version of SiteMachine that we have written using the open source programming language PHP.

Accessibility and Compatibility

The sites are designed to be easy to view on any commonly used browser (including Mac users, and Netscape, Mozilla or Opera users). The sites are generated as plain html and don't rely on any plugins or javascript - except the optional use of Javascript-based tools when site owners are amending pages. Editing can be done on a PC, Mac or Linux computer, using almost any popular web browser. Assessed against the widely used 'Bobby' criteria for level of accessibility, our sites currently aim to exceed the Bobby A Approved level.