Technologies

PeppaCode uses industry standard and freely available open source technologies for the website solutions we provide. Open source technologies provides a large development and user base for the software, ensuring that functional and security issues have been addressed by the time the software is used in your solution. See below for a brief overview of some of the technologies we use and why we choose them for our solutions.

	HTML HTML is the core language of the Internet. Internet browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox look at the HTML page sent from a web server and display (or render) the page that you see on the screen. HTML is also the most basic form of web development. We use that for our simple small business website solutions.
	WordPress WordPress is today’s most common and widely deployed open source Content Management System. It was developed as a blogging platform and is particularly well suited to that application. It can also be used to display a more traditional page based web site. WordPress is based on a scripting language called PHP and a database engine such as MySQL. For Managed Solutions that require a blogging aspect we choose WordPress.
	Drupal Drupal is a full featured and highly customisable open source Content Management System. It is also based on the PHP scripting language and a database engine such as MySQL. We use Drupal for Managed Solutions that require a large degree of flexibility and for Customised Solutions which require specific tailoring to a customers requirements and the development of new software modules.
	e-Commerce There are many open source e-Commerce packages available but the two used by PeppaCode are ZenCart which is a standalone shopping cart application and Ubercart which is a module integrated into a Drupal CMS. Our choice of e-Commerce package is based on the existing website that you have in place and your overall requirements of online shopping.