A man who started his company from his bedroom has started to change the face of school websites throughout Keighley and the UK.

Sean Gilligan, 27, born in Keighley, started his business Webanywhere two and half years ago.

He now employs 15 staff and has reached 1,000 schools, including nine in the Keighley area, who all have a new website and have been trained how to update them.

The first school to have its website transformed was Holy Family School, and Sean was quick to see the potential market and expanded his business.

Sean said: "I got bored of working for other people. I was always a risk taker rather than part of the crowd. I am an ideas person and very much more a diverse thinker than a logical thinker.

"We all need a bit of luck really and there was an obvious market here. I had the right solution and the necessary experience. All you needed to do was look at the Internet and you could see that school websites weren't that good, so we got involved."

Sean set up the company in August 2003 and by August 2004 he had four people working for him.

A year later and he had moved into Peter Blacks in Keighley, with a new office expansion this month.

Webanywhere delivers the website to the school, installing the necessary software and training staff at the schools on how to use and update the new sites.

Each school site is placed on the overall Bradfordnetwork site run by Webanywhere, which also has a news page, children's work section, useful links and events page for schools.

Sean said: "Bradfordnetwork links all the schools together and it opens up schools to the general public. It's all about parent, community and parent power. The news section has links to all the schools newsletters and it's all kept bang up to date by the schools themselves.

"We owe a big thank you to them for updating and keeping the sites going. We are building up a relationship with the schools and we believe that because the software and the service isn't ours we can only charge a one-off fee.

"We now want to get more schools and businesses involved."

The company continues to support and re-train the schools if needed. It is a BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) accredited company and works alongside local authorities such as Bradford LEA.

To access the main schools site visit www.bradfordnetwork.com.