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GlabIT
GlabIT

Websites · brand · design · SEO · hosting

Secure web and application engineering

Secure web and application development from Oradea, Romania: custom software, web design, SEO and hardened hosting where included in the agreed scope.

In one sentence

Websites, web applications and brands designed, built, promoted and hosted by GlabIT — a software company since 2008, online as glabit.com since 2016 — now with security built into every stage, from the first wireframe to the server it runs on.

Who it is for

  • New businesses that need a logo, a website and to be found on Google — the whole starting kit, done properly
  • Companies whose website is old, slow, not mobile-friendly, insecure or invisible in search results
  • Organisations that need more than a website — a custom web application, an e-commerce shop, an API, an admin area
  • Existing clients who want the site kept up to date, monitored, backed up and hosted on fast, hardened servers

Where GlabIT started

Our clients have always spread across the map — Italy, Romania and beyond, including projects for clients in North America and the Gulf. We have written software since 2008 and, as glabit.com since 2016, designed and built websites and web applications, reshaped brands, and helped businesses become known online, using the best marketing and design practices an agency can bring to the table. That practice continues here, with one difference: security review is built into the delivery process, to the extent stated in each project’s scope.

For a new business — no problem

No matter what field you started in, we help your company become a known and trusted brand with:

  • a simple, memorable and versatile logo that suits your business and field
  • original and professional design
  • a clean, concise, easy-to-use and responsive interface, fitting desktop, TV, tablet and phone
  • well-structured source code optimised for fast loading, delivered under the ownership and licence terms of your contract
  • easy integration with search engines, social networks and analytics tools
  • security measures built in from the start, not bolted on

Already have a business? We can also help with

  • a simple, efficient logo refresh that suits your business and field
  • a full redesign, or targeted fixes to what is slow, broken or insecure
  • a responsive interface that fits all devices
  • SEO optimisation
  • security and data protection — TLS encryption, hardened configuration, backups
  • social-network integration and an administration area you can actually use

Is that all? Of course not

Blogs, forums and RSS; content management systems (WordPress and others); e-commerce (PrestaShop, Magento, WooCommerce); mobile applications; APIs; newsletter management; statistical dashboards; secure data handling through encryption; object-oriented PHP and Laravel; modern JavaScript front-ends.

How we do it

Design

Web design is a crucial part of every website or web application. Before a programmer begins, they need a design of how the site is going to look — and that is where the web designer comes in, turning the client’s ideas into something on the page. Our designers work to today’s standards and know the best practices of web development and marketing, so the mock-ups bring the business to life rather than just decorate it.

After carefully selecting the colour palette for the client’s business, the design proceeds in close connection with the client. Once both sides are happy, the design goes to the development team. GlabIT also designs logos: a logo is the image of your business, the first thing your client sees, and it should make an emotional impact they remember.

Design services: website design · mobile app design · logo design · branding · rebranding

Development

Web development ranges from the simplest static page to complex web applications, e-commerce and social platforms. We bring good practice in web development to every client: after receiving the design, our developers build the site or application using current, well-supported technology — Laravel for web applications, modern JavaScript for interfaces, and the platforms that fit each project — with security review and testing before release, to the extent stated in the scope.

Development services: application development · website development · mobile development · API and integration work

Promote

Promoting a business online is on every entrepreneur’s agenda, and it can get confusing: where should I promote? Who is my audience? Do I need a blog? Is one social network enough? We help you answer those questions and put the plan into practice — search-engine optimisation, Google and social advertising, newsletters and platform integrations, where these are in scope — measured with analytics you choose, so you can see what works. We do not guarantee rankings, traffic, leads or sales.

Marketing services: SEO · Google Ads · social advertising · newsletters · analytics · platform integrations

Your product is ready

Then we keep it that way where you want us to: hosting, monitoring, updates and backups under a maintenance plan, and a security review whenever the application changes materially, as agreed in that plan.

Selected work

Selected work

Projects from our web-engineering practice, shown with permission — click through to the sites that are still online.

See the full portfolio

Deliverables

What you receive

  • Brand and logo

    A simple, memorable and versatile logo that suits your business and field, with the files and rules to use it everywhere.

  • Design

    Original, professional design; a clean, concise, easy-to-use responsive interface that fits desktop, TV, tablet and phone.

  • Source code

    Well-structured code optimised for fast loading, delivered in a repository under the ownership and licence terms of your contract — which define what is yours and carve out pre-existing GlabIT tools, open-source and third-party components, fonts and media, platform licences and your own material — and reviewed for security before release.

  • Integrations

    Search engines, social networks, analytics and statistics tools, payment providers, newsletters — connected and validated.

  • Launch and SEO

    On-page SEO, structured data, sitemaps and the technical basics done so search engines can rank you; promotion set up where it makes sense.

  • Hosting and maintenance

    Where included in your plan: hardened hosting with TLS, backups, updates and monitoring as specified in the plan — or the same care applied to your own servers under a maintenance agreement.

Engagement model

How it runs

Model
Fixed-price projects for design and build; subscription plans for maintenance, hosting and SEO.
Typical timeline
Depends on scope and is agreed in the proposal; custom applications are scoped individually.
  1. 01

    Discover and specify

    What the business does, who it serves, what the site or application must do. We write it down and estimate it.

  2. 02

    Design

    Colour palette chosen for your business, then the design worked up in close contact with you until both sides are happy.

  3. 03

    Build and test

    Development with appropriate, maintained and supported technology versions, with security review and testing before anything goes live.

  4. 04

    Deploy and promote

    Launch on hardened hosting, search-engine and social integration, and the promotion plan agreed for your market.

FAQ

Questions a sceptical CISO asks

We have a business and we are new on the web. Where do we start?

With the essentials, in this order — a logo for your company name, then the website, then the technical SEO and content work that helps search engines understand and rank it for the terms your customers use. Rankings, traffic, leads and sales depend on many factors and are never guaranteed; the technical foundations are what we control.

We already have a website. Can you improve it rather than rebuild it?

Yes. If it is too old, loads slowly, does not display properly on mobile, has security issues or does not rank, we either rebrand and upgrade the whole site or fix the selected issues — whichever gives you more for the money.

We want more than a website. Can you build our application?

We like challenges. Custom applications are built with the technologies the requirements call for — object-oriented PHP with Laravel, JavaScript front-ends such as Vue, e-commerce platforms including PrestaShop and Magento, WordPress where it fits, Redis, REST APIs and more — chosen for maintainability and load speed, not fashion.

What does "secure" add to a normal web project?

Threat modelling in the design phase, dependency and code review before release, hardened configuration for the CMS or framework, TLS and security headers, backups and monitoring where hosting is in scope, and — where the scope includes it — a penetration test for applications that handle customer or payment data. Security review reduces risk; it does not make a product vulnerability-free.

Do you host, and do you keep the site up to date afterwards?

Yes to both, under a plan. We can host your website on hardened servers, and our maintenance plans keep your application current through supervision, updates and regular backups as specified in the plan. Or we apply the same care to servers you already own. Uptime, availability and features are those stated in the plan, not implied by this page.

Have a business? Let us talk

Whether you need a logo and a first website, a modern rebuild, or a custom application, tell us what your business does and we will come back with a clear proposal.