SoftAware People

Julian Grahame - Director

I'm the owner and lead developer at SoftAware. I've been in this business for over 15 years and have worked on more projects than I can remember.

I have just as much passion for software as I had when I started out and am constantly striving to improve my knowledge in this ever-changing industry.

I was one of the early adopters of the Microsoft.NET platform back when .NET was first released in 2002.  Since then we have been hard at the codeface building software for our clients.

I started off developing Windows applications but more and more in recent years we have been involved with the creation of web sites and web applications.

The web brings with it different challenges to the creation of in-house Windows software because we are in fact no longer dealing with just software. 

A website has to be so much more than just a beautifully coded program - In order to represent your business on the web, we need to take account of a number of other factors - visual design and usability, marketing, search engine optimisation and content.

A couple of years ago I faced up to the fact that whilst our technical and coding abilities were very advanced, our in-house design skills could be improved.  I decided to find a high end designer to collaborate with.  It took a long time to find the right person but Paul McKenzie who will tell you more about himself below is the result of this search.

Paul has added style to our output and I am now able to unashamedly plug our web offerings as high-end, not only from a technical standpoint but also from a design point of view.

Paul McKenzie

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