Starting back when Windows 95 was still in beta testing, INSTONE.net has grown from strength to strength, constantly learning about new technologies such as Visual Studio .NET.

We started out with simple, but effective 'personal' HTML websites written using Microsoft Publisher (hardly professional, but it was a start!), then slowly moving onto slightly more advanced websites using Microsoft FrontPage but still only writing personal websites. In about 1998 we started using Macromedia Dreamweaver for our web development and progressed further into using technologies such as ASP to connect to Microsoft Access databases to build more professional websites. Using ASP and MS Access opened up a new area for us and we started writing Forums, Guestbooks, ePostcards, Search Engines, etc. We had so many individual websites that when we got an email asking us if we thought it would be a good idea to join them up as one website, we jumped at the chance and BikerSearch.com was born.

BikerSearch.com changed over the years and was rewritten using Visual Studio .NET at the beginning 2005 and the backend database has moved from MS Access to MySQL. BikerSearch.com offered a web service to any developers who would like to take advantage of the data stored in the database and also offered RSS feeds for some data. The BikerSearch.com Search Engine used ASP.NET scripts to enable the database to 'auto clean' which removes out of date or dead links from the database automatically.  Unfortunately the domain wasn't under our control and it expired.

We started providing domain registration and web hosting around 1999 and now currently hold 45 domain and subdomains on our server.

Apart from our 11 years experience in web development for the public sector, we have also gained about 6 years experience writing web applications for the private sector, namely Royal Mail, using technologies such as ESRI ArcIMS and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (web applications and web services) to provide various internal websites to aid in the administration of various postal services.  This has now progressed onto newer technologies such as ESRI ArcGIS Server and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005.

We strive to keep up to date with web technologies seeing web services as a way forward enabling shared content on the Internet not just in the web browser but also in Windows and Linux applications.