HirMon & Associates also provides the following website services:
- Repairs to a website, including assistance to those owners that hav "lost their web person."
- Installation of any of our website add-ons to conventional websites.
- Retrofitting conventional websites with Content Management Services.
- Review existing websites for presentation, performance and effectiveness (no further obligation).
- Moving websites from a web host to another (e.g. to overcome disk space, bandwidth or other key limitations).
- Create custom online forms in PHP/MySQL for data entry and retrieval.
- Formatting output for PC-based software like Excel or Word a specialty.
- Feasibility and technology reviews for specific applications.
- Web hosting without disk space or bandwidth limitations.
- Conversion of video and audio files into web-compatible, streaming format based on client supplied media.
Commentary:
Now, a lot of people have told us that the video/audio file conversion isn’t really neccessary because services like YouTube and Flickr can provide video services you can shove into any website.
True - but (there’s alway a "but," isn’t there?)
In the past 2 years we have had at least 5 clients that absolutely refused to have either service’s video on their website.
They wanted the video on their website specifically.
The Why? goes like this:
Those services are:
- "Look cheap" -- anybody can use those services
- Using those videos on a website can promote YouTube and Flickr and distract from the intent of the website on which they appear
- YouTube (especiallly) is prone to the message: An error occurred. Please try later. That does nothing to promote the video and makes the owner’s choice of presentation look "amateurish."
In fact -- YouTube is not the way to go if a website owner intends to have paid subscription tutorials or other "proprietary" videos on their website.
In the past 5 years, there has been only one website request we could not fulfill and the reason we could not fulfill it was -- there was no technology available to do what the owner had in mind.
