Snowgoose made its first flight out of the nest and onto the Web early in 2001, mostly building web sites for tourism businesses. We now have a continually expanding portfolio of sites ranging from accommodation businesses to regional attractions, arts and crafts, plus some non-uk sites. As a regionally-based business, most of our clients are based throughout Northumbria and the North East of England.

Snowgoose has gained a reputation for offering friendly, honest and straightforward advice. The Snowgoose policy is to continuously offer high quality design and simple, easy to use sites at reasonable prices. We always concentrate on the business needs of our customers first, building sites which meet those needs rather than persuading them to use expensive, unecessary and often (business) damaging technical features (such as Flash animation, for example). Experience in how the Web really works and a great deal of common sense are our primary skills.

By ensuring from day one that all sites are built to be search-engine friendly, our customers achieve a steadily increasing percentage of business directly from their Snowgoose web sites, with some rates as high as 80-90%, depending on their business sector.

Marie has been an ICT professional for more than 23 years. Her experience ranges from programming and systems/business analysis through technical, sales and marketing support. She has been involved in the design, production, and control of ICT training materials and execution of training courses for blue chip companies throughout the UK, particularly during the 7 years she spent with Software AG. The last five years have seen an increasing emphasis on the Internet.

Prior to setting up Snowgoose she worked for two years as project co-ordinator for the Northumbria Tourist Board's Newsite project (experimental online availability and booking system, the forerunner to Entic-e). Tasks were wide-ranging, including the production of marketing, promotional and awareness materials as well as the total management (planning, organisation, design, production, delivery) of training workshops and other exercises to increase Internet and ICT awareness and use.

Marie always strives for a jargon-free, common sense approach to computer technology. She has strong communication skills and a pragmatic approach, demonstrating a particular empathy with potential and existing users of ICT, including an ability to persuade, encourage and explain its use in business.

Neil is the primary designer for all of the sites supplied by Snowgoose. He is from a freelance photographic and product/graphic design background, with a BA hons degree in Industrial Design and 10 years experience with computer technology, including CAD work and experience with graphics, desktop publishing and web design software. He also has 15 years experience with photography, both as a hobby and on a semi-professional level.

This background provides a healthy mix of technical and artistic experience, making him well suited for web design.

Since the inception of Snowgoose he has worked closely with all of Snowgoose's customers and has gained valuable insight into the creation of web copy and editorial for a variety of businesses, particularly in the accommodation sector.

A perfectionist in his work, he goes to great lengths to produce individually designed sites which can satisfy even the most demanding customers. The final site designs are to the highest achievable standard, designed to be fast, simple and effective with search engines.