Home page for Encryptec Limited

Established in 2003, Encryptec draws on over 15 years experience of providing Internet based services and solutions both within the UK, EU and US. All of our technology is derived from Open Source systems and as such the source code for all the products and services we provide is freely available via the Internet. We endeavour to bring components together in a format that is stable, maintainable, easy to use and such a way that it provides the desired end-user experience.

Web Sites, version 1.0 and 2.0

The days of what are now termed Web 1.0 websites are numbered, if indeed they're not already over. Dynamic web sites (Web 2.0) make such a difference to the online experience the only real excuses for using older 'static' technology are cost and speed of implementation, both of which we aim to render obsolete.

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CMS in action, click for larger picture

Content Management

Implementing a website is often a costly experience and not something most companies wish to repeat on a regular basis. Once live, information on a website may need to be changed on a regular basis or indeed new content may need to be added. Traditionally, on Web 1.0 sites this would mean either using your web design company or having someone "in house" who was trained in the use of an expensive Windows based tool, both options tend to be very costly.

Our solution is to provide customers with a website which uses a Content Management System (CMS) as a base, which means before the site design begins it already has a fully-functioning framework which allows users to log in and insert and edit their own content without any specific knowledge of web pages or how they work. This means that typically, once a site goes live, the customer can add and maintain their own content without any additional cost or maintenance.

Zope and Plone

Our choice of Content Management System is a product called Plone which has been around since 2001 making it a fairly mature product in today's rapidly changing world. Plone is  actually Web 2.0 application that sits on top of an application server called Zope. Zope is an even more mature product with roots going back to 1996 and some very large users, for example  Nato and Sgi.

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Zimbra in action, click for larger picture

Electronic Mail with Zimbra

Once you have a website up and running, you will need a reliable and feature rich Email system in order to make the most of it. We host a system called Zimbra which provides a host of features which provide a very good fit with our other products and services.

Essentially Zimbra provides a WebMail solution which is actually an AJAX powered Web 2.0 application in it's own right. In addition it provides access via traditional POP, IMAP and SMTP protocols allowing you to use Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, or any other standard email reader either in addition to or in place of the web browser based interface. For hardcore business users Zimbra also provides specific interfaces for Microsoft Outlook , Microsoft Exchange and various mobile phone / Blackberry configurations should the need arise. It also covers address books, calendars and other sharing facilities that make it an ideal office based groupware tool. Shared email folders for example can allow different members of staff to share an address such as <sales@domainname.com>, or to share customer emails and facilitate many members of staff to dealing with follow-up queries for a given email address.

Bells and Whistles

There are over 800 optional modules that can be plugged into our Plone based websites, some of which we provide as standard facilities such as an Issue tracker, a Help Center, Forums, Blogging, Slide shows, YouTube video player, Flash player, RSS news, Polls, Surveys, and more that can be added on request. In addition we offer a programming service and can write additional modules to your specification if an existing module is not already available.

Voice over IP Telephone (VoIP)

This service has grown from our own requirements and become a standard system we can provide to customers on demand. We use the Asterisk digital telephone exchange software in conjunction with the FreePBX portal to provide a virtual PABX on the Internet to which you can connect with a standard SIP based telephone.

The effect is to remove the need for a local telephone system or exchange and instead you can locate an office phone anywhere you have a broadband Internet connection, while retaining all the standard features of a complex PABX including call transfers, voicemail, call recording, hold music, call queuing, interactive voice menus etc.

Open Source technologies

Encryptec fully support the use of Open Source technologies and in addition to being prolific users of Open Source, also contribute to the Open Source community. We sponsor and run the website that can be found at linux.co.uk , we designed and implemented the Flash Linux USB based distribution, and we've also written and support a number of software projects that you  can find under the Software tab at the top of this page.

Questions and Information

If you have any questions or would like any further information regarding our products and services, please feel free to call us on 0845 5082719 or email sales@encryptec.net.

For demonstration purposes, this website is implemented in Zope and Plone on our servers using our standard website template and standard Plone modules. The above email address is handled using our own mail systems and delivered to one of our Zimbra mailboxes. If you call the above number, the call will be handled by our virtual PABX on the Internet and the call will be routed via an ADSL connection down to one of a number of SIP phones in our office.