GECHO Agency

About our business

What does the name Gecho mean?

Gecho is a play on the animal Gecko and the word echo.

Gecko’s are versatile and cool – much like the sites we love to build.

Echo is the statement used in the PHP coding language to present information on a web page. PHP is the language WordPress sits on – and that is the platform we use to build our websites!

				
					<?php
echo "Welcome to Gecho";
?>
				
			

The Team

Our people

Ritchie Cridge

Director

Ritchie launched Gecho (formerly Connectable) in February 2020. He…

Actually, I am going to switch to first person as it is me who is writing it! I started the business after having worked for Somerset Chamber of Commerce for a few years. I fell in love with web development while helping others with their websites for free.

My expertise covers a variety of front-end languages, customer journey & UX, UI design, SEO, analytics, digital marketing, AI, and a range of other tertiary skills (including many Adobe / Microsoft apps etc).

Outside of the business I am Chairman of Taunton Round Table and a Trustee for St Margaret’s Hospice.

Sam Coate

Developer

Sam officially joined the team in August 2023. Prior to that he had been working with us freelance for three years while completing his Computer Science degree at UWE, Bristol.

He is a talented developer with expertise covering JS, Flask, MySQL, PHP and others. From computer systems architecture, to advanced databases, IOT, security data analytics & more, Sam has an aptitude for all things digital.

When Sam isn’t developing, he will likely be found either climbing, doing archery, or gaming. He has also been known to create the odd app over a weekend just for something to do…

We are fortunate to have Sam in the team – a skilled person who is always striving to improve.

History

About our business

February 2020
Where it all began
Founded in February 2020 by Ritchie Cridge, Gecho originally traded as "Connectable". From day one, our slogan was: WordPress website developers. That has not changed. A pre-pandemic business with the first two years spent working from home.
February 2020
September 2021
A second company director
In September 2021 we welcomed Hope Cridge as a company director. She holds a 50% share ownership in the business.
September 2021
December 2022
BLOCK Workspace
A proud moment in the business as we signed the tenancy agreement and moved to BLOCK Workspace on Blackbrook Business Park in Taunton, Somerset.
December 2022
August 2023
Welcome Sam
Sam Coate joined Gecho in August 2023 as a Junior web developer. As a fresh Computer Science grad from UWE, he rapidly became an integral part of the team.
August 2023
April 2024
Taunton Round Table
A career highlight for company director, Ritchie, as he became Chairman of Taunton Round Table Charitable Trust. We give a significant portion of time to the charity sector and build a website pro-bono each year for our selected charity (view the builds here).
April 2024
February 2025
Celebrating five years
Not quite history just yet... In February we will be celebrating five years in business! Look out for a rather large party.
February 2025

Who we
work with

Business Owners, Marketing Managers, Agency Partners and many more…

View our
portfolio

Have a look at the range of sites we have built across multiple sectors.

Each year we design and build a charity website free of charge.