About Surfability
A radiative 2-jet event detected in the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider by the ALEPH collaboration at CERN, where the worldwide web was
born.
As former particle physicists the Surfability management team has many years of experience working within large international collaborations, sharing knowledge through intranets, developing software, and analysing complex data sets. We now hope to help realise our vision of a 'golden age of information'.
Surfability Limited is a Corporate member of the British Web Design and Marketing Association. To qualify for this membership category our website has been independently evaluated. Additionally, we are committed to compliance with the BWDMA code of professional conduct including fair-trading and customer service issues.
We use our own extranet website to ensure transparency by enabling our clients to monitor our progress continually and remotely on web development projects.
Company history/background
- In February 1999 we successfully completed an architectural redesign of the BaBar collaboration's website which then comprised some 200,000 documents (see BaBar case study).
- In October 2000 our Managing Director, Mark Williams, was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to start up a company offering "web tools and consultancy services". The fellowship was funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
- In February 2001 the company was incorporated, and began trading in March of that year, specialising in redesign services for information-rich websites.
- In January 2002, Surfability won a DTI Smart award to carry out a nine-month feasibility study of a radical new approach to improving the ease-of-use of large, information-rich websites.
The future of Surfability
Our past experiences have imbued us with a deep understanding of effective 'knowledge management' processes, and our particle physics training has equipped us with the tools and techniques to analyse and optimise information-rich websites.
The target markets for Surfability Limited are in the financial, legal, telecommunications and public sectors.
"Our mission is to turn the art of web design into a science and thereby help our clients to fully realise the value of their websites."
Surfability mission statement, July 2002.