About Forge Design.

Forge Design, Inc., (Forge) is a Florida-based web development firm specializing in e-business strategic consulting and solution innovation. We provide strategic, marketing, creative, technical and digital project management services that expand customer relationships, increase revenue, and streamline operations. We are one of a select few e-business solution innovators that provide end-to-end service, enabling existing businesses to rapidly and successfully become e-corporations.

Founded in June of 1995, Forge’s mission is to create, vitalize and accelerate business through digital business models and net-based technology solutions. Our staff and leadership strategy helps businesses win the digital battle for customer relationships. Forge has expert consultants, with backgrounds in Web marketing, graphic arts and information processing. They currently provide services through their offices in Tallahassee, Florida, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Forge staff members have worked in many areas of information technology and web development, including government and private sectors. Forge staff hold certifications in Macromedia MX studio, Photoshop, Web Objects, MCSE, and are certified in Oracle, DB2, Windows NT 2000 and PL/SQL. They are proficient in the following technologies and applications: Adobe PageMaker, Quark, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Typestyler, AddDepth, Adobe Streamline, Adobe Golive, Macromedia Flash, Finalcut Pro, Adobe Premier, Omnipage Pro, Adobe Acrobat, MS Office, Debabelizer, Painter, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, Codewarrior, Quicktime VR Studio, Sound Edit 16, Poser, Letter Rip Pro, Net Cloak, FileMaker Pro, MS Access, MY SQL, MS SQL, J2EE, Perl, JDBC/ODBC, XML, Lasso, Tango, WebObjects, Quick DNS Pro, IP Net Monitor, EIMS, Roxio Toast, Hypercard, Pixar Typestry, and KPT Bryce.

Forge is a consulting and solution provider focused exclusively on Web based solutions. They help companies improve and expand customer relationships through customer self-service solutions in a personalized and intuitive user interface. Their industry focus includes government, online training, retail, communications, financial services, and Internet startups.

The Forge Philosophy

Forge believes that small teams of highly qualified professionals most successfully accomplish the development of information systems and web-based applications. Forge also believes that our best customers are those with which we can build long-term relationships. In keeping with this philosophy, Forge are committed to providing solutions using the most recent techniques, methodologies, and development tools.

For solutions that require an interactive web site that is dynamic, fast, appealing, and content rich, we offer a Project a team of skilled and professional consultants with a combined experience managing technical projects, building custom web applications, programming client/server applications, and integrating database technologies to the web.

Whatever your challenge, we will develop the technical solutions that meet and exceed your goals. We offer technical expertise from a talented and resourceful team of graphic designers, marketing consultants, database developers, programmers and project managers.

Our Qualifications

The following points summarize why we believe that we are the right choice for this exciting and mission critical effort:

Our extensive project management experience. We have the knowledge of what works, and what doesn’t, and we will work to ensure that you receive a site that far exceeds your expectations.

Our experience with Internet companies (the “DOT.COMs”). We are currently helping state agencies and private companies by hosting web sites, and helping associations and dot.com organizations, such as CanDesign and RUBSonline, launch their web sites. With our experience and knowledge of database design, on-line marketing, and professional web design we will:

• dramatically reduce the cost of the project
• avoid "false starts"
• decrease overall time to site launch
• ensure overall business success

We provide expertise in a thorough methodology that includes:

• IT Strategy
• Interactive Marketing
• User Experience Design
• Information Technology
• Digital Program Management

We have knowledge and experience with technologies that will “jump start” this project. We provide our cutting edge solutions by implementing a variety of open-sourced and middleware technologies. We have certified knowledge with:

• RDBMS Data Storage (Oracle, DB2, Filemaker Pro, Access)
• CGI Data Retrieval (Java Servlet Technology, Lasso, Perl)
• Middleware Web Applications (WebObjects, PHP, ColdFusion)
• Multimedia content creation and hosting (Quicktime, Flash, MPEG-2, 3, 4.)
• Fast and effective web-ready content (HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, Javascript)

We have a track record of rapid development and deployment of web sites that make you visible to your customers.

Our comprehensive site-management capabilities include networks, firewalls, security, project management, user interface, creative design, Internet application architecture and development. Our approach will be based upon our proven methodology and your unique needs.