13-Mar-24
We're pleased to announce the launch of a new website for Scottish Digital Arts.
Read More24-May-23
An excellent record of delivering easy-to-use, secure and accessible online platforms for high-profile public sector projects has helped Fife web consultancy Horisk Leslie Development win the Small Business award at the 2023 Fife Business Awards.
Read More22-Aug-22
Horisk are delighted to have been shortlisted again for the Courier Business Awards
Read More19-Jan-22
Horisk Leslie Development has helped Crown Estate Scotland (CES) take a big step towards achieving Scotland’s net zero targets by developing the ScotWind Evaluation Platform website used to score bids to lease areas of Scotland’s seabed for offshore wind farms.
Read More11-Jan-22
New launch alert!
www.ESESCommunities.org is a new website developed by Horisk for the Capital City Partnership to encourage links between good causes and businesses across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife and Borders.
28-Jun-21
Horisk to create ESES City Region Deal Community Benefits portal.
Read More02-Mar-21
Scottish Procurement has today launched Climate Literacy E-learning for public sector buyers, the latest addition to the Sustainable Procurement Tools platform developed by Horisk.
Read More25-Jan-21
2021 marks our 20th year in the software development business, developing websites, web applications, databases and mobile apps.
Read More20-Jan-21
Horisk's services are now available on the Crown Commercial Service Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 5 in the Digital Outcomes category.
Read More05-Aug-20
A new platform developed by Scottish software developers Horisk Leslie Development for Scottish Procurement is helping Scotland’s public bodies embed sustainability requirements in their procurements, kickstarting the national economic recovery post-Covid-19.
Read More04-May-20
Define your delivery areas by postcode or drawing on a map
Read More20-Apr-20
You can now search LocalToYourDoor by postcode to find businesses who can deliver to you. Just enter your full postcode and go!
Read More14-Apr-20
LocalToYourDoor is a free community website to connect local businesses with new customers.
If your business is open and offers delivery or collection services in Fife, sign up for your free listing now at https://fife.localtoyourdoor.co.uk
Read More09-Oct-19
Horisk's services are now available on the Crown Commercial Service Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 4 in the Digital Outcomes category.
Read More30-Sep-19
We're delighted to announce that we are finalists for The Herald Scottish Digital Business Awards for the second year running!
Read More26-Apr-19
Our latest website design has gone live today.
This site was designed for access specialists Span Access Solutions.
Read More07-Mar-19
New launch! Our recent project for Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) is now live, which means that you can now apply online to become a registered Scottish charity. The new system will streamline the application process for both OSCR and 1,100 applicants each year.
Read More11-Jul-19
If you run an e-commerce website or take payments online, your payment provider may have contacted you about new regulations. You may need to make changes to your payment integration - we are working with all our clients to ensure they stay compliant with the new rules.
Read More07-Nov-18
Horisk have launched a new website and digital tools for Scotland's Rock Art Project on behalf of Historic Environment Scotland
Read More01-Oct-18
Horisk were delighted to be Highly Commended by a prestigious panel of judges in the Small Business of the Year category of The Courier Business Awards 2018.
Read More28-Sep-18
Horisk's services are now available on the Crown Commercial Service Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 3 in the Digital Outcomes category.
Read More10-Sep-18
We're delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories at The Courier Business Awards 2018 - Digital Business of the Year and Small Business of the Year.
Read More14-Sep-18
Scotland's Rock Art Project, which was developed by Horisk for Historic Environment Scotland, has been shortlisted in the Public Sector category of The Herald Scottish Digital Business Awards 2018.
Read More06-Jun-18
The Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has appointed Horisk to develop a system to allow online applications for charitable status. It aims to make registration as simple as possible for the applicant while also allowing the streamlining of decision-making processes within OSCR.
Read More23-Mar-18
We all know GDPR is coming and it will affect how organisations deal with personal data. We have been doing some interesting work on some of our systems and sites to help clients implement their updated policies.
Read More01-Dec-17
Horisk are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Best Performing Business category at The Fife Business Awards 2018.
Read More31-Oct-17
We're delighted to have been be appointed to the new Scottish Procurement Digital Services Dynamic Purchasing System as a supplier for Digital Projects.
Read More02-Oct-17
Historic Environment Scotland have appointed Horisk to develop the digital resources for Scotland’s Rock Art Project (ScRAP) – an innovative project to record and research prehistoric rock carvings, and bring them to the attention of a modern-day audience.
Read More23-Aug-17
Horisk are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Digital Business of the Year category at The Courier Business Awards 2017.
Read More04-Aug-17
Brian Horisk has been appointed to the board of Fife Chamber of Commerce.
Read More21-Apr-17
PC Pro magazine asked us to write a piece for their Real World Computing section, and it's just been published in their June 2017 edition.
Read More22-Mar-17
We are delighted to have moved to larger premises in Cupar. The new office provides much improved meeting space and a better working environment.
Read More05-Sep-16
We are one of just 20 Scottish, UK and international companies to be awarded a place on the Scottish Government Application Design and Development Services (ADDS) Framework.
Read More04-Jan-16
Horisk recently gained Cyber Essentials certification.
Read More04-Nov-15
We're delighted that the site we have worked on for the last year took top prize in it's category at the Realex Payments Web Awards 2015.
Read More19-Apr-12
We currently have a number of large-scale projects on the go, but sometimes it's nice to just create a small, straightforward website for a local business. Our latest is a new website for local artist Steve Bretel who specialises in Pet Portraits and Wildlife Art.
Read More19-May-11
Finally got to the bottom of an session problem we've been having with a heavily-trafficked live server since we installed the Coldfusion 9.01 update, Hotfix 1 (CHF1) for ColdFusion 9.0.1 and the hotfix for security bulletin APSB11-04. Essentially, users appeared to be losing session information in between requests.
Read More06-Apr-09
Horisk have just completed web development on a bespoke e-commerce website for the specialist Scottish event photographers Xpressphoto.
Read More17-Feb-09
Normally adjusting Filemaker privileges for user groups is enough to embed the required security into your solution. You can achieve most things through the usual granular access to script, layout, record and value list privileges. Sometimes this isn't enough though.
Read More16-Jan-09
Horisk have just put a new website live for Scottish wedding photographer Rhoddy Stewart. The site uses a Wordpress backend for which Horisk designed new templates to best display Rhoddy's powerful images.
Read More16-Jan-09
Horisk recently completed some behind-the-scenes work linking Filemaker Pro and MySQL databases on a new website ilexplants.co.uk for Ilex Creative Solutions. The website consists of an extensive database of plants for Garden Designers and Landscape Architects.
Read More26-Nov-08
To increase security on email sent by websites, some web hosts (e.g. streamline.net) require that all mail sent via PHP scripts use the "-f" parameter to ensure that the sending email address is from a domain registered with that host. This "-f" parameter is used to set the envelope sender address when using sendmail. Wordpress does not seem to support the appending of this type of parameter by default. As a workaround, you can edit the Wordpress emailing code directly.
Read More08-Aug-08
A number of our sites have come under cross-site scripting attacks in the last few days. From reading other blogs this seems to be a pretty widespread wave of automated attacks, not specifically targeted at any of our sites.
Read More16-Apr-08
Many people come across problems using content management systems like Wordpress and Joomla on Windows Servers. One of the problems is folder permissions when you try to upload images or other content. Linux is easy - chmod the properties of the folder to '777' - but what can you do when you are using a Windows server running IIs?
Read More16-Apr-08
If you are having trouble setting up a Wordpress installation with Plesk's Sitepreview, the following may help (and may also apply to other systems that give you a temporary URL to test sites before they go live).
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