• Bespoke designs or off-the-peg designs suitable for rural businesses
  • Search-engine friendly
  • Easy-to-use content management system
  • Free technical support and troubleshooting
  • Inexpensive web hosting with secure daily back-ups
  • Content writing, editing and updating service
  • Specialists in websites for community-run shops ... Advice given on content
  • Free unlimited email accounts
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About us

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Web design
  • Web hosting
  • Copywriting
  • Editing
  • Community enterprise
  • Project management
  • Technical support



We are a partnership formed specifically to offer our combined skills and experience to the developing market of small independent companies and community enterprises wishing to create an online presence. We offer many years' practical hands-on and successful experience in all aspects of website development, design and maintenance.

Gordon Saxby is a director of Ascend Internet Ltd, established in 1999, which is committed to giving a friendly, personal and professional website design service with the technical expertise to get a business online quickly and efficiently. He has a wealth of experience helping all sorts of businesses, having worked with blue chip as well as smaller companies and has a good understanding of business needs.

Helen Melia is an editor and copywriter with many years' experience with academic and trade publishers, and is a director of Melia Publishing Services Ltd. She has also spent several years setting up a community shop in her village. In the process she has developed a keen interest in websites as an effective means of communication and is familiar with the process of website copywriting and updating.

She also works as a community retail adviser for the Plunkett Foundation, a charity that helps rural communities through community-ownership to take control of the issues that affect them.