Today we are launching our new company brand, Webartsco, with a brand new site here on the Web.
“We” are Des Walsh and Suzie Cheel, the Directors of the company.
The official name of the company is The Webarts Company Pty Ltd. We think Webartsco is suitably sleeker for the 21st century.
A little historical note about the company and its Web addresses
The company was established in 1993 as Des Walsh & Associates (the name of our pre-incorporation consulting service), becoming The Webarts Company a few years later.
When we first established a presence online, back in the mid-90s, our business ventures were very Australia-centric, so the webarts.net.au domain made good sense. Although if our memory serves us well, we did not know then how smart it would be to own a top level, .com domain. And even if we had, we can’t recall that we would have known how to go about getting one.
In those days you signed up for an account and the Internet service provider organised your domain name. By the time we got around to looking for the domain webartsdotcom it was gone. There are now more generally accessible options and we are more self-reliant in Web-related matters.
A few months ago, doing a review of the web hosting arrangements for our various online sites, and with our business activities happily more international than they were in back in the 90s, we figured it would be a good idea to do some re-badging with a top level, .com domain and a more streamlined brand.
Result? http://www.webartsco.com – new online home for The Webarts Company Pty Ltd trading as Webartsco.
Why we love blogs, Web 2.0, WordPress, Thesis…
It’s fascinating to think that back in the 90s, to have a site with only a fragment of the functionality of this WordPress site (free download) with the Thesis theme (developer’s license $77) cost us thousands of dollars (f rom memory the quote was $5,000). And we can update this one and pimp it out to our heart’s content, whenever we want, without any more than a smidgeon of knowledge of HTML code and without having to fork out more money every time there is to be a change, as we did in those bygone days. Viva Web 2.0!
