Archive for May, 2009

TGIF Short Workweek, Long Hours Design, Repairs, Customer Service – DTG – Hartford CT

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Website Design and Hosting DTG Hartford CTFriday is here. I can’t say finally because it was only a four-day workweek. It seemed more like a 10-day workweek.  The staff at DTG are busy working on webpage designs, computer repairs and handling customer service calls. A typical day at DTG in located in Hartford CT.

Sometimes it seems that everyone is in a rush and needs things NOW. I am no different. DTG works hard on taking care of everyone with all sorts of problems. Computers seem to have a mind of their own. They overheat, catch viruses, and work when they want to. Sound familiar?

The professional staff at DTG are experienced not only in web design, creative thinking and great customer service, but the ability to work with the customer. Being in the business, and speaking off record, programmers and designers can be very temperamental. I have had my fair share of both types of individuals in the many years that I have run this Internet business. A lot of grey hairs.

Webpage designs take a bit of creative thought. You need to get a client down to perspective where you both are on the same page as far as design. At that point, we let our web designers develop “comps” that the client can review. From the comps we can start adding links from the frontpage to the different web pages. Web colors, sizing, navigation are completed at this time. Think of it as a big puzzle.

DTG prides itself in its ability to quickly satisfy the customer’s needs. Big companies just don’t have the time for that. When a job in brought into DTG, you are assigned a project manager that keeps you in tune on the development of your website or custom web application. The DTG HelpDesk provides technical web support to each of its customers. A technician will respond back to you via email or by phone.

Keeping the sites running is another web hosting function provided by DTG. Our servers host hundreds of websites, custom web application and developmental sites.  Video and Flash hosting is also provided by our high bandwidth servers.

As you read and try to understand that running an Internet business is not for the faint of heart. Your business needs to follow the current technology and be an active participant in forums and groups on the Internet. DTG believes that blogs provide users an informative and possibly entertaining ideas of how we do things.

Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, to name a few websites all started as a joke, gamble, maybe a business idea. My point is to think of where those websites are now and just how popular they are. Why because someone took a chance on an idea and make it work.

Wedding Photography requires a fast network and large storage capabilities – DTG Computer Services CT

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

This blog is dedicated to my brother Brian who is a very famous Connecticut Photographer from Glastonbury Connecticut. His website, Brianambrosephoto.com reflects some of his talented work. If you are looking for a photographer for any type of event, he is the guy.

Wedding photography requires you to shoot thousands of pictures. When you and your other photographers are both shooting to capture “the moment”, you can run up a lot of disk space. To be exact; 6480 pictures at last weeks wedding requiring 24 gigs of data. That’s a lot of data to keep around.

In Brian’s early network design, the staff of DTG, put all of his workstations, laptops, and file servers are a 1 gig network. Multiple storage units each on UPS’s, keep his data up and running.

As time went on and Brian’s business continued to grow, he realized that he needed more storage space. From headshots, weddings, school photos, yearbooks, graduation photos and other forms of photography, his storage capabilities were quickly growing and the need for more storage hardware was implemented.

According to Brian, when you are editing a wedding that has 4000 pictures, you have to go through picture and “weed” out the bad ones. This takes a great deal of time. You need a fast network to provide fast photo upload time to get the job done.

When your business has grown to the point where you need a computer person or Computer Company to support your business needs, DTG located in Hartford CT can provide that type of support. Virus removal, hardware repair, Internet connectivity, wired and wireless solutions, DTG is your source for computer repair and technical support.

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Waking up to a new face – DTG website design and hosting services

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

DTG Website design and deveopment CT

Getting up each morning can be a challenge to some of us. Next up, we have to go and face the world. We open our doors of business to let in the customers. At DTG, looks and performance mean a great deal, especially when your website does all the talking. A good website will bring you in some business. A GREAT website can bring you in more then business. It can be the start of a new relationship with a client or more.

Our designers spend a great deal of time researching what is an optimal website or custom application for our customers. We provide support to each customer on their existing as well as current website. We just don’t take the money and run. DTG is still standing after many Connecticut web designers have closed their doors and abandoned their customers.

As a business owner for over 25 years, I understand the meaning of taking small steps and working you way to the top. Web design and the creation of a brand-new websites take time. Everyone looks at the web from a different perspective.  Colors and themes usually take the most time in getting them right.

Once you have the layout for your website and the colors reach out and touch you, the beginning of your dream is really happening.  Yes, finally the ground starts breaking for your personalize website. Your door mat to the Internet.

Getting visitors to your site will be the topic of our next blog. Anyone can “slap” a site together. But, to get customers to the website is another topic that requires technical knowledge in webpage development and website design.

Put this together and you get the buzzword SEO. Search Engine Optimization. Fancy word. Important technique. Google rules!