We already work with a number of design, marketing and web agencies, and our services are highly complimentary while in no way conflicting (unless you also offer programming).
We do not provide any web design services in-house, and will never do so in the future. We are completely geared towards providing website programming and to supporting web designers (and other clients) with their programming requirements.
We have also developed several products with web designers primarily in mind. Our content management and ecommerce platform was developed in conjunction with a web designer in the first place (although it has expanded in numerous directions since) and still maintains the core principle that it should work with any design and any functionality requirements should be possible to be incorporated.
The system can be co-branded, or entirely branded to appear as your company's content management system, with a login page completely designed to match your own website. The header and footer areas when logged in can also be entirely branded as you see fit.
We are therefore able to support any programming requirements you may have, and can work with you either acting as part of your company or with the client being aware of both individual companies. We have partnerships working effectively both ways.
Whether you need a programming partner to just take care of certain programming requirements (because you can do some of it in-house, or because you have another programming resource that can do some but not all of your programming requirements), whether you would like to consider using a different programming company for one or two projects, or whether you would simply like to switch to us or use a programming company for the first time, we are happy to talk to you further and see what we can do with you.
We have many happy design partners, and they would no doubt be happy to provide references. It is very hard to know whether a programming company does what it says it does (because you can't see their code to know whether it is well organised, and you perhaps wouldn't even know what to look for anyway), and no programming company is going to provide you with references from unhappy customers. We are therefore in the same boat, but we are happy to explain to you some of the pitfalls and things you should look out for in programming companies (from hearing about what our current design partners have had to suffer with in the past), and can provide enough references should you so require to give confidence that we consistently provide a good service and develop long term relationships.
We look forward to hearing from you!