Martin J.P. Starkie

Website Design : eCommerce Web Development : Hosting : Email : Search Engine Optimisation

Well and truly an Apple fanatic, my roots grew from very early experience with an Apple LCII way back in 1992 from my Fathers Graphic Design Agency, Morgan Advertising (now JKS Advertising).

As the years progressed and my wealth of an intimate knowledge of the Apple OS increased so did my passion to use this new computer technology. The first computer I ever used was an Apple Macintosh LCII back in 1992 running System 6 (16Mhz processor, 4Mb RAM – this thing was lightning fast for the day!! Over the years I progressed through a huge range of Apple computers and the System Software 6, 7, 8, 9 and then onto Mac OSX as it is today.

So while everybody was using Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, I was building up a core knowledge of Apple and Apple System software. As the World Wide Web took off in the UK from around 1995, I knew what I wanted to do and worked towards my goal.

After A Levels and University, CMS Live Web Design was established in 2005 to help small local business with their web design requirements. Soon after this we expanded into eCommerce Web Development and CMS Live became a real online success!

We now have a healthy client book including many local business in and around Barrowford, some slightly further afield in Rossendale and Cheshire and some from even Spain and Gibraltar!

I am more than happy to help, so if you need anything eCommerce, Web or Design related please get in touch.

E-mail: martin@cmslive.co.uk

Gemma Starkie

Website Development : Hosting : Email Marketing : Search Engine Optimisation

Found my chosen career path in 1999 when I rebranded the family business’s with logo’s and all necessary stationary.

From then I dabbled with design on PC’s until 2001 when I took on a new job in graphic design & advertising which introduced me to the Apple macs, the first mac I worked on was a Green G3… I thought it was amazing!

This new job eventually moved with the times and I moved to managing the Ecommerce website from an administrators role.

This set me on a whole new path and I was eager to learn more about websites and how they were built, so I went back to college in 2003 to learn New Media. I loved the course and I loved learning more everyday so it wasn’t long before I wanted to do this on a daily basis.

My next move was to find a job that would fulfil my hunger to learn more. I was successful in getting a job for a company who specialised in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), here I learnt more about building websites but essentially I became very knowledgeable about Google and the other search engines and how to refine websites to ensure they performed the best in the search rankings.

As in most women’s lives it was time to get married and start a family, so this takes us to getting married in 2007, my first child in 2009 and my second in 2010.

And this brings us to the present, our motive is to look after our clients and help them get the most out of their websites and get what they have paid for.

We are always here to help!

E-mail: gemma@cmslive.co.uk