About us

TheVirtual are a Christchurch based web development company who specialise in Plone CMS websites. We can develop a website tailored to your needs, regardless of the size (large or small or somewhere in between) or requirements (basic --> feature rich). We provide a quality platform that is responsive (mobile friendly) as well as scalable which allows your website to grow and change as your online business grows and changes. As well as providing a secure platform, we also back this up by providing a secure hosting service package to ensure your website has the best protection and availability that we can provide.

Plone web development specialists

We develop Plone CMS websites from our home base in Christchurch. The Websites we develop range widely in complexity and purpose but all of them have one thing in common, they're built with the ultimate open source CMS. Find out more about Plone, its excellent feature set and why it is a great starting point for your web project.

We thrive on a challenge and are quite at home dealing with the complexities of running servers, writing code, and managing technical projects. While this can sound intimidating, you can rest assured that we look after the technical side of things so you don't have to!

The real people behind theVirtual:

Despite the misleading name, there are real people sitting behind desks on the other end of theVirtual's Contact Form. There is also someone by a phone if you prefer to chat.

Our focus is on providing our clients with the best service we can, going out of our way to ensure our clients get the best out of their websites. We thrive on the challenge of creating websites that fulfill our clients requirements and exceed their expectations!

Website Development since 1999

We spent a lot of the 90's working on everything from micro-controllers to mainframes - we provided extensive consultancy to government departments, migrated complex databases, and were involved in a couple of 'ahead of their time' invention-driven web based projects. During this period we kept encountering people who had more complex web requirements than their websites could provide. There was a need for a web platform that provided CMS functionality along with supporting the development of complex back-end web solutions. It was around this time that we came across Zope. Zope, an open source web application server, looked set to fufill a lot of these requirements. It was out of this community that the more fully fledged - content management system - Plone was born.  The global community of developers continue to add features and improvements and have kept Plone at the forefront of enterprise grade CMS.

Open source philosophy

We are firm believers in open source software and use it at every level of our operation. The benefits include decreased software costs, improved security and stability, and the ability to debug and fix any issues that arise in the source code. This collective approach also means that there is a much wider developer base working on a project and it is delivered at a fraction of the cost, with no ongoing licensing fees!

We love working along side people to create CMS websites that extend their businesses. We provide ongoing support & development to our clients, providing or development products to enable them to meet new online requirements as the need arises. Learn more about our websites, our range of services or get in touch today!