Bohemian Technologies

Today, there are standards for building websites - the idea being that if a site conforms to the international standards, it should be completely viewable on any modern browser (for example Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera). Unfortunately, a number of older browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6 and 7, do not fully support the standards.

Clients have to make a decision when building a website - are you building for the future or the past. If you choose for the future, a number of functions in the site may not work on older browsers (including older versions of Firefox and Safari).

Fortunately, browsers are generally free of cost, and are very easy to install. But we understand that you must consider what browsers, your visitors will likely use.

This all being said, BohTech will work with you to craft a website to your specifications. We can provide references on request.

There are a number of technologies that go into building modern websites. These include (X)html, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Javascript, and others. Each website page has pieces of each, plus other technologies as required. Fortunately, we have access to some amazing tools and resources to employ these languages, and we are experts in their use. If a site is designed by us, it can be maintained by us, but if you choose, it can be maintained by another company. There is nothing prohibited or proprietary in our work.

The computer programs we use include: RapidWeaver , BBEdit, CSSEdit, Apple Developer Tools, Graphic Converter, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver.

Some companies and/or individuals need to be able to maintain the content within their website. The choices are to train your staff how to change the content using the programs we use to build the site, or to build the site using a relatively new technology called "Content Management". These can be simple to build and difficult to use, or they can employ expensive products.

There are some solutions that we can use but these again, may limit your site look and readability on older browsers. The tools we can work with are varied, but include: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and some low-end CMS "plugins" such as WebYep, Pulse, SurrealCMS and CushyCMS.

We acquire images where necessary through iPhotostock and VectorStock. Of course, we can use your personal and/or company images.

Finally, by programming the website properly, it should be seen by the major search engines - not only based on it's name, but also based on keywords that you supply, and that we develop together. This technology is called "Search Engine Optimization". It's an area where there are many companies that will sell you useless products. Nothing succeeds like having a well-built, standards-conforming website.

We are based in Washington DC, but we can develop websites for clients around the world, for example Faros is a site for a organization registered in Greece (note the .gr suffix).

In many parts of the world, the speed of the internet is fast enough today that it doesn't really matter where the site is physically located. In areas where the internet speed is slow, and the client base is local, you may need to use a local Internet Service Provider (ISP).

As long as the ISP supports the common FTP protocol (if they do not, they should not be an ISP), we can craft your site, and upload it (using FTP) to the ISP of your choice.

We prefer to use a company in Utah, called , finding their service and support excellent.

Only to help you transition away.

Seriously, while we know enough about Windows to help you move your files, email, contacts, etc to a Mac, we cannot give support to Windows users.

There are plenty of providers - in fact whole industries of IT departments - who will be only too pleased to take your money to keep your viruses and spyware at bay.

Yes, if you prefer to use us this way, we will charge between $80 and $150 per hour depending on the complexity of the tasks.

Please email us using our Contact form. Thanks!