Web Wizards Winnipeg-Web Design and Web Development since 1995.

     Thirteen years ago, Matthew Amihude and Marshall Posner were guest speakers at my Multi Media Course being held at Red River College in the CN Station.  One component of the web design course was an introduction to the Internet and basic html programming for websites.

     Web Wizards Media Services was their fledgling web development company.  As a thank you to both of them coming down to talk about the Internet, website design, web hosting etc., they would be given a graduate of the class for 6 weeks or work placement and that’s where I come in.

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     Feb 2, 1997 I became a member of the Web Wizards team and we were working in a wide open market.  We had several clients from the first two years the company was open and with me there it allowed for more active sales.

     A new project would come in and we split the work.  Marshall was our “Designer” and created the visual components for the web site.  He then turned it over to me and I sliced it up and put it together using basic html from scratch – no templates or style sheets or Dreamweaver back in 1997. While I was doing this, Marshall and Matt were out doing cold calls, knocking on doors looking for the next client. Matt was up next and he worked late into the night making the forms function and adding shopping carts using CGI. Everything was done by hand and it was time consuming – no short cuts.

     In 1997 we were able to tell our clients that we would get them ranked in the top 10 on many search engines and we delivered!  There was no cost to submit a web site.  There were requirements like good keywords, meta tags, etc., and there were a few programs available that would allow for mass submissions to many unknown and small search engines. Google was a free submission and had its own form as did several other of the larger engines in the late 90’s; these were all handled one at a time.

The industry has come a long way in the 13 years that I have been involved.

    Search Engine Optimization is one of the new kids on the block and is absolutely necessary to have on performed on your web site if you want to get it ranked by any of the larger search engines. This is an entirely new industry and is growing fast.

     It has been a wild and exciting ride for Web Wizards and myself. We have grown from a 3 person office behind a flower shop on North Main Street Winnipeg to modern offices in The Exchange District with 26 Wizards creating magic every day. 

     Stay tuned – we are still growing and still working on the cutting edge.

Connie

Office Manager