Recently I have been looking for a solution to my static website. Every time I want to make a change, I need to call my webmaster / coder for him to make the change. Not only did this take time, but it was very expensive.
I was looking for a new solution, What I found from a friend was his recommendation to talk to Frans Alkemade of Strategic Website (http://www.strategicwebsite.com).
Frans Alkemade was fantastic to work with. He showed me many of his demo sites as well as his client sites. What he showed me was many different types of open source solutions that his company utilized, then customized to fit my needs.
He showed me sites using all html, mambo, java, ruby on rails, drupal, and several others. He showed me the positives and negatives of each technology.
I was able to pick a solution that worked best for my company. Now I have a site that I can go into and add audio, video, images, flash, online forms, newsletters and any type of content on the fly. I can now add links to any page of my site and customize and track everything.
If your looking for an honest, informed and hard working company that is looking out for your best interest, then Frans Alkemade and Strategic Website is the company your looking for.
You can call them directly at: 858-764-4198
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Frans Alkemade and Strategic Website is a LIAR, A THEIF AND A FRAUD.
Don’t let his impressive 3 million dollar home and home office in San Diego fool you like it did me.
After promising to build me a state of the art web site using “his team of top programmers and designers”, and his propriety CMS system, Frans fumbled through the process, went through 3 different programming teams who he probably hired through Rent a Coder and proceeded to miss every deadline that he set, he never delivered the product. He did not pay his last programming contractor who subsequently quite working on the job. After nearly 5 months of waiting for a project that was to be delivered in 2 months, Frans still cannot show me even the most basic elements of the site that he was contracted to build.
At one point his excuse for the delay was that his lead programmer had a HEART ATTACK. I heard every excuse except that his dog ate the code. It became obvious that Frans was not capable of managing the project and would never get it done. Meanwhile my company was spending tens of thousands a dollars a months waiting. On several occasions I told him that I would cancel to contract and hire a new company.
Frans finally promised in writing to "refund my $10,000 deposit if I was not happy with the job" after an agreed upon deadline. When in finally demanded a refund he told me that he had no money. I was then told that he would have to finish the site and sell it in order to pay me back. At this point my only recourse is to take Frans to court to get back my deposit and all collateral material associated with the design of my site.
FRANS IS A LIAR, A THEIF AND A FRAUD. I wouldn’t hire him to program my VCR. I cannot begin to describe the heart ache, the damage credibility and the financial loss that he has caused my company as a result of his incompetence. In the end I don’t know who was stupider, me for trusting him for so long or him for thinking he could get away with it.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF GREAT PROGRAMERS OUT THERE; I WISH I WOULD HAVE SELECTED ANY ONE OF THEM BEFORE I MET THIS CROOK.
If you are considering using his service don’t. Save yourself the grief and anxiety. The guy truly defines the term SMOKE&MIRRORS.COM.
I know the guy whos is saying these lies about Frans, his name is Tom Hollbroke and his company is Play More Golf, http://www.playmoregolf.com.
This guy is one of those guys who is a terrible business man and wants to blame all his mistakes on others.
I did some research on this guy Tom, he is a real bad man, (you can confirm this by calling any golf course in San Diego or the Southern Cal. PGA, the president told me Tom was a bad man and that people on the board have horror stories about this guy) this guy has a terrible reputation.
Tom came to Frans and asked him to rebuild his current site because it did not work properly and was getting no activity. After Frans built him the new site, Tom wanted to incorporate a social networking solution, "Just Like You Tube". Tom 'agreed' to pay the additional funds to incorporate a social networking solution
Frans brought in his special engineering guru that specialized in Social Networking sites.
When the project was about 70% done, it was time for Tom to make another payment, he refused and expected the entire site to be built before he would pay anymore money. He said that his 20% down payment should be good enough for you to build the entire site. Hey Tom, that is not how it works in the real world.
Frans quite the job! He was not and should not be responsible to build this guys website when the client is unwilling to pay for work completed and that he agreed to pay.
By the way, this guy tried to hire Frans' engineers directly, but they knew he was a dead beat, had no money and could not get any golf courses to sign up for his program.
Tom is a person that always wants to blame others for him being so cheep.
Frans and his company are fantastic, I know because he built me a website and it rocks. I have found Frans to be honest, hardworking and totally dedicated.
I find Tom to be the kind of person you should never do business with, somebody that 'has a great idea' but wants others to pay for it'.
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