Ad Hoc Creations

Welcome.

We design, develop, produce, host and maintain a wide variety of web, print and media things.

Maybe you'd like help making your mark on the internet. Perhaps you need an annual report edited, designed and printed. It could be that you need a multi-user secure database application. Or maybe you'd like a film and some photos of your community event. We'd love to talk to you.

Who we are

We're John Main and Ewan Main*, a tip-top duo of design and development know-how based in Whitchurch and York, England.

John has over thirteen years of programming, development and engineering experience, ranging from Wordpress customisation to powerful data-crunching financial applications. Originally specialising in backend technologies to support broadcast systems, John has worked with development agencies large and small and produced bespoke systems for clients such as the BBC and AstraZeneca. John's the one who does the magic with server-side / backend systems, system administration, mobile apps, and all things programming and scripting.

Ewan has produced print publications, photography, video and web design for organisations of all sizes. His photography has been sold in York Minster, his corporate print design has been distributed to thousands of homes, and his words have been read by (and to) thousands of people. As a qualified youth and community worker, charity trustee and and part-time employee of a national charity, he's particularly focused on the local authority and not-for-profit sector. As well as helping people to work out their social media strategies, Ewan's priorities are standards-based front-end design and coding, photography, print publications and audio / video production.

*The fact that we share the same surname is entirely coincidental. As is the fact that we share the same parents.

UK

  • Scotland
  • England
    • York
    • Whitchurch
  • Wales

What we can do

  • Business infrastructure solutions including email, social media and web presence
  • Full content management systems to small user-configurable areas
  • Wordpress setup and customisation
  • Implementing Google Apps, domains and hosting
  • Database-driven applications
  • Audio recording, editing and CD production
  • Video production for online and DVD
  • Print and graphic design: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat
  • Photography, including photo retouching, printing, publishing
  • Mobile applications
  • Paypal integration
  • Web coding using latest standards: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (including jQuery 1.7.2)
  • Server-side web technologies including PHP5.4 and MySQL5.5

Things we've done recently

We've worked on a wide variety of projects, from one-person business websites to internal security procedures; from printed annual reports to films of talent shows; from embedding Twitter feeds to custom content management systems. There’ll be a portfolio here soon, but in the meantime: get in touch and see if we can work together.