March 8 is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Here are the practical ways Symbiote supports women.

Here's how we managed the early planning stage of a complex web development project.

These are the top 5 best software testing and quality assurance practices we follow at Symbiote and how they improve our relationships with our customers, our internal processes and relationships, and the software we make.

We’re advocates for creating smart, ethical websites that inform and assist, rather than persuading or even tricking people, and that don’t store or sell visitor data. We even wrote an open source module in Silverstripe that lets you personalise your site for visitors, so they can remain anonymous and store some personalisation data on their own device, to make your site more useful during their future visits.

Designing and coding websites to make them accessible makes them better for all kinds of users and technology.

You might have heard that we should use long passwords containing a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. But how does anyone remember complex passwords? Isn’t it OK to use the same password on unimportant sites?

It makes sense for government departments to share software. We created a tool to help job seekers answer application questions persuasively – and it was easily modified to suit a different group of users.

We build custom dashboards to fit your staff, your decision-makers and even your customers, using all the information you have available to you (plus some you might not have realised you can get).

Middleware is clever code that links complicated backend databases and systems and frontends, so websites run quickly, efficiently and securely. When the hard work of creating middleware is done well, no-one should even know it's there.

‘Golden nuggets’ are the wonderful, valuable comments people share towards the end of a conversation or interview after we’ve built rapport during the user experience (UX) research and testing processes.

A web developer explains why and how to keep your passwords safe

Transform your website from an online brochure to a digital experience platform (DXP)

Not only *can* we include user feedback during the software development process – we *should*. Keeping users, particularly users with specific needs, at the centre of our work improves everything we make.

It's possible and necessary to actively identify, monitor and respond to security threats across your systems.

We've moved to a 4-day work week. 80% of each person's time at 100% of the pay. How does this work?