We're a one-stop shop for developing, maintaining, and growing web applications.

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Our staff has 1-2 decades of programming experience, but the art is no longer interesting in itself. What gets them up in the morning is building things that help clients succeed.

We've learned over the years that when our clients are successful, we are successful, and we also built our software business starting from $0, so we've spent plenty of time in our client's shoes!

Our approach is to think about how we can contribute to a client's success first, with the engineering work we do, being the means to that end; instead of the other way around.

So, let's talk business!

Zerolith is a PHP Framework we built. In layman's terms, this is a pre-assembled factory assembly line for writing code.

Zerolith was built both for both improving old software, and constructing new software at the fastest speed possible, without compromising code quality or performance.

In addition, it includes an on-screen debugger and profiler to help the programmer produce fast code and eliminate bugs quickly.

It was originally designed for Courtesy's own software as a means to optimize our costs, but the experiment was a success, and we now use this system to write our client's software, too.

We specialize in the most common web development languages: PHP, CSS, SQL, HTML, and Javascript.

No platform is too strange for us, we've added functionality or serviced big platforms like wordpress, magento, canvas, xenforo, as well as custom systems from 1,000's of lines of code to 100,000's of lines of code.

If your system requires specific expertise in order to be economically serviced that we don't have, we can help you locate, interview, and even manage someone capable of getting it done.

Just ask!

So often, a small business makes a huge investment in software, only to lose their programmer, their programmer's interest, or hit a wall with the foundation of their code.

These kinds of problems can stop the project dead in it's tracks, and sometimes result in a complete loss of that investment.

We take the philosophy that abandoned or neglected code projects should be given a chance and be gradually reshaped into well functioning, well behaving, easy to maintain code. In the programming world, we call this refactoring.

Courtesy can help you evaluate whether refactoring or building from scratch is the right thing to do.

Hosting development systems can be expensive, and setting up and maintaining custom development environments is time consuming, and often insecure if not done correctly.

Courtesy offers a simplified development server setup and flow for small teams. We can copy your web server, modify that copy into a development version, then host it at the office or colocation facility for a huge cost savings versus having it on the cloud.

This makes development systems easy to refresh and sync with production systems... and also have identical behavior as your production web server; security features and all.

We use it ourselves, and offer this to all of our web development clients who have small teams working on code.