Web Standards? What’s that?

Imagine driving your car where there are no street lights, stop signs, or lanes; it would be pure chaos. Standards are created for universal order, and the web is no different. Web developers should abide by standards to keep things flowing properly on the internet.

Your site should look the same in all popular browsers. Your content should be accessible if a user has images or stylesheets turned off. Mobile phone browsers should have no problem rendering your data. Developers should also include separate stylesheets to fix Internet Explorer 6 and 7 issues. These are the behind-the-scene steps your web company should take to get the most out of your investment.

Put our competition to the test

There is a very simple way to determine if your web company is abiding by modern web standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has created and enforced web standards since 1994, and they offer an online validation tool. Visit their validation page to check the Immense Networks website, then feel free to insert any other web address you want to verify.

Following standards allows your site to be compatible with most internet browsers. It is accessible on mobile devices and even by the hearing/vision impaired community. It becomes more readily indexed by search engines, increasing your ratings. With Immense Networks, you are getting quality design that is standards compliant and coded correctly.

Are you getting the most out of your investment?

]]> http://immense.net/web-standards-matter/feed/ 0 http://immense.net/our-hosting-is-better/ http://immense.net/our-hosting-is-better/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:00:57 +0000 admin http://immense.net/?p=39 We know we’re not alone in the realm of web design, or even web hosting for that matter. But what the other guys don’t want you to know is why we’re better.

We implore you to ask the other candidates what they do in the event that your site is down. While they will likely give you some glossed over answer about how “they do everything they can” the fact of the matter is that they have no control over the situation. Why? Because they are reselling GoDaddy, 1&1, Lunar Pages, and so on. Doing everything in their power means waiting on hold to be connected to a call center on the other side of the planet to be told that they are not sure when the site will actually come back up.

The hosting fee you pay monthly to your design company actually costs them a little under $3/month. But they are charging you for the level of service that you can only get from a company who actually owns and maintains their own servers.

We own and maintain all of our servers. We have had our servers in dozens of datacenters across the country, and we pride ourselves in using only the best datacenters with speed and reliability as top priority. Our network is solid.

Venyu Datacenter

Venyu combines 30 years of experience between online data backup leader, AmeriVault, and hosting services veteran, NTG. Unified as one, Venyu is a premier provider of data protection, recovery, and availability services.

Colo4Dallas Datacenter

The Colo4Dallas premium network is optimized for performance with direct feeds from four tier 1 carriers. The Internap flow control platform provides the definitive fastest route for your data. And you get all the speed you purchase – guaranteed – without latency or packet loss.

We know what you’re thinking: Its picture perfect as long as you’re responsible enough to do it. Wrong! We know you’re not going to remember to do it, that’s why we set it up for you, and it is completely automated. You want privacy? No problem. We give you the software, you select the files, how often to backup, and how many versions of each. Done.

The software links to our storage server(s) and keeps your data safe at all times. Don’t feel comfortable backing up to a server in Louisiana? No problem, you can opt to store your data in Dallas.

So here’s the situation: Jessica the secretary can’t print, Todd hasn’t gotten any email in two days, and Jim can’t get anything off the server. On any other morning, you would be rescheduling everything you had to do that day in a vain attempt to figure these things out. But this morning, these things are not your problem because you have Immense Networks.

Before Jessica even told you there was an issue, she called, we connected, and we solved the problem. When Jessica called, she got a person that knew who she was and was ready to move. We use Bomgar remote support technology to gain shared control of your computer, find the problem, and correct it. Best of all, we’re located right here in Baton Rouge.

Our command of group policy is so deep, that your computer will not only make you coffee, but won’t tell you it used light creamer… and you won’t know the difference. We use every available tool to make sure that the roll-out not only goes quickly and smoothly, but can easily be managed by your current IT staff. We work with them during the process to make sure every stone is turned, and when it is done, provide them with the every piece of information they need to keep it rolling. Sounds good? We thought so. Tell us about your project, and we’ll tell you how we can make it better.

Immense Networks has been featured in this month’s Business Report magazine. Check it out.

Before Immense Networks got its name from searching the dictionary and thesaurus and before it moved into a 600-square-foot office complete with coffee pot, water cooler and demotivational posters, there was the computer club meeting at Holy Cross School in New Orleans.

Back then, Darren Kattan was an eighth-grader who was in his second year at the Ninth Ward school. Figuring the computer club was some big thing in which everyone took part, he showed up for the meeting after seeing fliers around the school.

But one other person showed up: the club’s president, Bret Esquivel, another eighth-grader who had started at Holy Cross during the brief time when the school offered fourth grade.

“We didn’t know each other prior to that,” Kattan says. “Bret was from Chalmette. I was from the Westbank. Complete opposite sides of New Orleans. Had I not decided on a whim that I wanted to attend Holy Cross, we would never have met.”

Good thing, because their lives have been connected ever since—convincing their parents to haul their desktop computers completely across New Orleans so they could spend all night setting up, breaking and fixing them, arguing with the teacher in a Web design class over her network policies and how to circumvent them and, eventually, founding Immense Networks.

“The biggest barrier was that we were so young,” Esquivel says.

Esquivel and Kattan registered the domain name immense.net in 1999, four years before they graduated from high school and started at LSU. Using the words “big” and “enormous” as launching points for their search, they scoured the dictionary and thesaurus for an appropriate description, eventually landing on “immense.”

“Whatever we had, we wanted it to be bigger and better,” Kattan says. “We knew we wanted something to go with ‘networks.’ That was our niche,” Esquivel adds.

In January, Esquivel and Kattan leased an office on the second floor of a building on Brookline Avenue, helping legitimize the company since work was being conducted in a more professional setting than the apartment Esquivel and Kattan share off Brightside Lane.

“We have desks, we have it set up the way we want it,” Kattan says. “Everything is paid for. We both put in $100. We haven’t had to put in a dime since then. We drive past places every day, and we wonder how much they took out to get started. To know that everything is paid for, it feels good.”