Welcome, everybody, to version 8 (beta) of door4.co.uk

It's been a few months in the making, and represents the first stage in this new phase of our communication with, and promotion to, our existing and would-be clients.

So what does BETA mean?

Simply - it's a pre-release version. A trial, if you will. Fair enough, we have launched it, but in the fast-moving world of the website industry, you sometimes can't afford to stand still. For a web agency, where we build our own website, we can afford ourselves the luxury of pre-launching, and making an early version available to the public.

Would we do this with a client website? In most cases, definitely not. But experience proves that a "live" website accelerates the generation of content much faster than one that is under wraps. Indeed, our own website at www.door4.co.uk has been 'under construction' for several months.

In this time, we have produced mock-ups, visuals, schematics, ideas - you name it, it's been stuck on the wall! But then finally, we decided on a simple, flexible layout which allows us to add lots of content, images, case studies and so forth.

We are full of ideas for the site, and welcome your feedback. We would encourage you to revisit us over the next few weeks, to see how our ideas come to fruition. Of particular note is the "Good News" section, this blog, and the FAQs. Our objective is to make the website a publishing tool - to share our knowledge and good news with you. We certainly welcome clients to submit any "Good News" to us - you'll notice that the top item at present is that of the Gumpert Apollo sports car. We were delighted with the Top Gear record lap time, and wanted to share this with you. If you have any news to share with us, we'd be delighted to hear it!

See you soon!

Leon Calverley