Name of your website?Pacific Metal Fab - Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication
Your name?
Matt
Your Location (city, etc)
Eugene
Please give us a short summary of your website?
Our fabrication operation is known for precision sheet metal work and machining. Our Precision Fabrication capabilities also include, CNC Punching, Water Jet Cutting, Custom Product Assembly, and Automated Powder Coating.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
We created our new site for customer convenience and satisfaction.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
I started creating web sites at school in 1996.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
It is the name of our company.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
Free online quotes, file uploads and a private business ftp account.
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
Bring in new customers from our web site.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
We are a very successful company.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
Live online customer support.
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Yes, we could.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Cross browser compatibility.
What has been your biggest challenge?
Getting a better page rank.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Small business directories, Google Page Rank system and Google's search engine.
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
Creating a professional quality site is a lot harder than it looks.
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
I started working on this site about six months ago. I am developing many site tools that will allow anyone with little to no web page design skills to modify and administrate the site.
What technologies is your site built with.
We love LAMP! Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. We also have a medium size javascript library.
What is your website address?
Pacific Metal Fab - Precision Sheet Metal Fabrication
