Past Projects by GeniusWeb.com
Projects 1996-1999
These years were full of excitement, with many new technologies appearing on the scene. The initial build-up of the company involved the hiring and maintaining of a number operations staff as well as programmers and designers, and we had a lot of good people work for us as interns as well as paid creative personnel.
While most of the sites we developed during this period were lost in the dot-com bust, many still remain and do good business thanks largely to practical management by the business owners.
Our first client was Good Nature. Marianne wanted a site that would complement her shopping mall store, and the sales were so good due to sound search engine optimizations that she eventually closed up her brick and mortar shop and went 100% online.
We also constructed a large number of sites during this time many of which are still around including some which have undergone 3rd party redesigns since but still depend on us for hosting and software.
http://www.crafthobby.com/
http://www.s-senterprises.com/
http://www.wildhorseministries.com/
During this time we were also busily constructing (time limited) incentive program websites for our partners for use by companies including Aetna US Healthcare, Mohawk Flooring, Cingular Wireless, Mannington Mills, Dr. Pepper, DLT Solutions, Quantum Corporation, Relm Corporation, Tennant Company and many others. Most of these sites were built to provide a one year or shorter incentive program, and handled the management of hundreds of thousands of customer and salespeople records accurately and safely.
We developed a number of programs during this time including the first ever in-browser search engine submission program "Search Stuffer" which later became "Deep Submit," the early server-side scripting independent versions of "GeniusCart," a hosted guestbook service called "Gbook", web counter services, and a lot of other less famous tools as well. Many have served their purpose and faded out of usage over time as better services appeared to take their place.
We also have a number of other sites that we grew during this time including BeadShoppe.com (domain was sold to 3rd party in late 90s), DarkPoetry.com which is still a thriving niche community, DeepSubmit.com (obsolete) which was a truly unique search engine submission program, and a lot of other experiments that did not do as well!
Y2K And 911
During the earliest crises of the century GeniusWeb.com scaled back to become a simple consultancy again and survived thanks to employees voluntarily seeking other employment during the difficult days of the dot-com bust and then shortly after the September 11 tragedies and all the fallout resulting from it. Clients were assigned to parting employees so they would continue to have paying work while they sought other options and we managed to make everything turn out OK despite the pressures of the time.
Present
We've built and maintained the new line of GeniusCart Software and kept it up to date to serve the needs of the many customers who rely on it.
We provide ongoing support for a number of companies in areas of site development, hosting and maintenance including
M.L. Brown and Company - Web designer and disc golf magnate from Western NY
http://www.soapcrafters.com/ - Soap Crafters Inc, the original sponsor of the 2.x line of GeniusCart development
http://www.horizonpr.com/ - Jonathan Hirshon's Horizon PR Firm in Silicon Valley and related ventures
http://www.gotags.com/ - GoTags and the GoTags family of custom embossed and engraved items for pets and people
http://www.commercemaven.com/ - Pam Love's e-commerce consulting
http://www.6seconds.org/ - 6 Seconds - the emotional intelligence network
And a large number of smaller organizations as well.
We're still going strong in design too. Here are a few very recent client projects:
http://www.engelmusic.com/ - redesign, small town music shop
http://www.aprscience.com/ - redesign and upgrade to GeniusCart II
http://www.helicopterheaven.com/ - new site for great deals on RC Helicopters and planes
We're also working all the time on expanding and improving our family of service based products.
While we've definately left out a lot of people here, these are some of the ones that are still fresh in our minds. We're thankful to all the people who have given GeniusWeb.com a chance on their projects, and especially proud never to have let them down.
