The Design Factory is a Web design and management company. We opened for business April 24, 2004 with the desire to make it possible for corporations, small businesses and startup companies to have a great Web site. A site to help your business flourish without the worry or knowing of all of the aspects of creation, design, maintenance, and optimization for search engines and crawlers. I am David Coplan, owner of The Design Factory. I know firsthand the years of experimenting, learning and frustrating dedication needed to master the skills and artist's eye that delivers a site that works. Believe me; you don't have time to devote to both your business and the site containing its profile. Tinkering isn't good enough to represent your livelihood. The Design Factory actual started in the late part of 2001 with the determination to finally figure out how to get a three page Web site uploaded to the server. We had purchased a standard plan from LVS Online Classes, and the site was created with Paint Shop Pro 7 and Microsoft Publisher. At the time I was taking my first class at LVS Online Classes (LVS Online Classes)from none other than Ron Lacey, Paint Shop Pro 7 vector graphics. There was a link to a site for a free ftp protocol to use in uploading pages to the internet called SmartFTP (SmartFTP). It’s an awesome tool and for home use it’s free. I got to the point to where I was able to log on to my Web server, I could see where I wanted my information to be, but...how do I get it there from here. Well it took me two days of reading the information from help on the LVS Web site, and on the Smart FTP Web site, along with some wonderful tutorials (on a flash video format) provided by SmartFTP listed on the Web site. I was really excited when I could finally see my Web site on the Internet, it was better than French Vanilla ice cream with butterscotch topping. It’s rather embarrassing to look back at those pages; I would put anything on them just to fill in the space. My buttons were 400 X 200, I’m not kidding I had no idea what my goal was for about a year then I had looked around enough to start to see what direction I wanted to go and organized The Design Factory. It quickly went from 2 designers to 1 and from then until now it’s just been me. Now here we are a few years later and now using Adobe Creative Suite III to build and design Web sites. We like to think of our “Design Guiding Principle” as a Nordstrom guarantee. If you’re not happy you pay nothing. David L Coplan The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of which I am a member and with that in mind I called it Anthology of Eternity. I cringe every time I look at it. My buttons were huge and text was non existent...
As I started taking classes in Graphics, Web Design and getting more comfortable with my new toys (Adobe GoLive, and LiveMotion) along with Paint Shop Pro 7 that was my very first vector graphic tool and I had a great instructor Ron Lacey, creator of Ron & Dave cartoon. Ron & Dave Toons
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