Name: Bob Clark
Web Address:
http://www.townsend-harbor-graphics.com/

Why did you get on the web?
In 1994 the company I was working for needed a web site. Several engineers tried building it using Front Page and Notepad. It was all text and very boring so it was turned over to the marketing group. As the Creative Director I tried to learn Front Page and several other development tools and finally found NetObjects. I loved it because it was like other page layout programs that I was familiar with.

What services do you offer?
Townsend Harbor Graphics is a small boutique style design firm with some very large clients that can choose graphic services based on their current needs.

We do everything from Web Sites Design, Print Design, Isometric Drawings, Exploded Views, and Signs. Like most small agencies the thing we do the worst is marketing the company. We’re so bad at marketing we don’t have time to get our business cards or corporate brochure printed.

What you like most about the web?
The intimacy and working relations you can develop with customers whose divisions may span the globe. Once this relationship is established we find ourselves doing business around the world instead of just our own backyard. We would never be able to do this without the web unless we had an office in every major city.

What you like least about the web?
Townsend Harbor Graphics sits twenty miles from the epi-center of the telecommunication revolution happening in Metro West Boston, but we’re not able to get Modem Cable, DSL, or ISDN. T1 is beyond our means and our 56k modems seldom reach maximum performance due to old telephone lines. Web site developers have to remember that this is still the majority of users.

What for you is the most useful web technology?
Hands down it’s got to be e-mail and instant messaging. Every day 250 million more messages are sent by e-mail than mail sent by the US Post Office. This brings all of us much closer together, understanding each other to build a better society.

Why do you use Fusion?
Being graphics folks here and not engineers or programmers we need tools that are easy to use and similar to other programs we use to get the maximum return for our investment of resources.

Your five favorite web site?
coolmaps.com (of course)
creativepro.com
PlanetProject
Adobe
Corel

Do you think the web will change the world?
I think it already has. Just look at e-mail bringing people closer together. I also think we haven’t seen anything yet once we get the infrastructure fixed. When we can all meet online with voice and video we'll make commuting to work a thing of the last century. What energy crisis?

What do you do for fun?
Try to keep up with this fast changing creative, social, geopolitical world.

Thanks Bob.

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