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What We Do

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:15:29 +0000

We BUILD and HOST web sites.

Building a web site, when done right, means taking the time to understand what you do, how you do it, what your special needs are, what resources and skill you have to sustain the web site, what you want your web site to do, and so on. We’ll ask a lot of questions and float a lot of suggestions before we give you solid estimates of time and cost. No charge for that. See “How We Work” for details. The penguin is the symbol that says our hosting servers are Linux-based, the most reliable and fastest in the word.

Our hosting service is unique. We have pioneered a new model for how hosting service is sold. To our knowledge, no one else offers unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth, with pricing based on what kind of support you need. No, that’s not a gimmick or a scam. Check out the details.

BTW – the changing images in our banner above are of our home town, Jersey City, NJ, One un-manipulated photo shows we are home of both the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Another shows the subway stop that connects to the World Trade Center, less than 5 minutes on the other side of the Hudson – or Midtown Manhattan, closer to us than any of the other 4 boroughs. We are also 15 minutes from Newark Airport.

How We Work

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:38:38 +0000

All development work is based on a Written Proposal*- We begin your project only after you approve a written, detailed formal proposal and contract that:

spells out every aspect of the project,
defines the technology we will use,
lists the resources we will use,
spells out who will do what such as create graphics, install texts, etc.
establishes objective performance criteria,
includes links to similar work
includes links to verifiable references
spells out a site management training plan
sets firm deadlines and
sets a firm price and terms.

All web development is collaborative. When we start a project we establish a private, password-accessible web site on our development server, just for you. Designs, suggestions, samples and concepts are posted there for your review and feedback as they are developed. Your approval or change order is requested at every step before we go to the next one.

We also establish an Online Project Manager (OPM) that monitors every step of the project, every email, every suggestion and every approval until the project is done in accordance with the formal written proposal. You participate at every step.

This assures both of us that the finished product is exactly what is in the written proposal and contract, not just our opinion of what you should accept.

We are professional. We will finish what we start for the price we agreed upon. No hidden extras or surprises or chargebacks.

Until you put your final approval in writing, the job is not done.

* IMPORTANT NOTE: we do not charge for informal analysis or research or suggestions or estimates. However, a formal written proposal is something we do not write without certain expectations. A formal written proposal is the functional equivalent of set of architect’s blueprints for a building or an engineer’s specifications of a bridge. It is professional work.

We create a formal written proposal only on your assurance that you are ready to go ahead with the project. It is the written version of the verbal agreement already established.

If you want a formal written proposal, but without making a commitment to award the project and finance it, with the freedom to use it as a biddable document or for inviting RFQs from suppliers, please tell us beforehand and we may create it for a price and terms to be negotiated.

Where’s the . . . PIZZAZZ???

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:10:35 +0000

What’s that you said? “OMG – this is a dull web site. Why don’t you have any rolling images and whirling stuff? Ya, know, some eye-candy, some . . . Pizzazz???”

Wait – WAIT. I said puh-ZAZZ not pizza. (At least it’s genuine Chicago style.)

Well, Grasshopper (or Biff or Tadpole or Pilgrim), let me ask you a question.

You came to this web site for information about building and hosting web sites, right?

Do you notice that you can see what we offer, right here in front of you, without delay and without jumping through more than three links? Did you notice there is no “page loading . . .” screen?

What you are experiencing has a fancy name “Optimal Information Delivery.” In simple terms, what you want to know, as fast as possible.

To accomplish that we don’t waste your time on Flash or pizzazz. And we think that’s what your customers want when they come to your web site. That doesn’t mean your site must be visually dull. Take a look in the column to your right at some of the sites we’ve built for restaurants, or shopping carts or B2B.