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>No-et-ic adj. Of or pertaining to the intellect; understood only by the mind or through the reasoning process.



>Nelson's online resume.
 

>Design shop directories:

Google.com
dmoz.org



>Nelson's picks of design shops:

Pretty good --

Room for improvement --

If you can't say anything nice ...


Noetic Harbor is a Year 2000 startup founded by Nelson Weiderman as a third career. He has spent fourteen years as a Computer Science professor for the University of Rhode Island and fourteen years as a software engineer working for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. If you need to know more, check his online resume. He is joined by an associate, Catherine White, a php expert, whose previous career was as a mainframe programmer for AT&T and Shell Oil Company.

Noetic Harbor is expected to remain a small operation, but it will have access to key designers and computer scientists who act as independent contractors when needed. We also have experts in content areas such as sports, finance, education, and marketing. Noetic Harbor will be a "virtual organization" in which all the employees will work out of home offices to keep overhead low.

We are looking to design small- to medium-sized sites on the order of ten to a hundred pages. We can handle custom design of graphics, e-commerce solutions, and database-backed sites. We expect the customer to be an active participant in the design process. Customers are expected to present their ideas and their artwork for incorporation into the website design.

The purpose of the company is serve a small clientele of customers who are motivated to enter into a partnership to design and maintain distinctive web presences.


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There are directories of web design shops that can be searched in various ways at Google.com and dmoz.org. One of the best ways to evaluate a design shop is to take a look at their website and the websites that they use as exemplars. The examples in the sidebar are taken from small design shops (five or fewer employees) in the California area. Here you can also shop around for prices to see what the range is. Caveat emptor. You usually get what you pay for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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