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About Digital Tool Factory

Our goal — nay, our mission in life — is to make websites that are mindlessly operable; there should be no extra thought required. We pursued ruthless simplicity since Steve French started the company.

Steve French started Digital Tool Factory as a pure ASP.net web shop in the summer of 2002 under the name Creative Plumbing Web Development. For the curious, the "Creative" part referred to the advertising and graphic design industries, and the "Plumbing" part referred to the portion of websites that existed, but no one ever saw, for example, the database and e-commerce code! The name was a mixed success, and Steve changed the name to Digital Tool Factory in the spring of 2009.

What We Do

Below, you’ll find a list of our resources. What you can’t see is our years of experience because we've packed it neatly away in our brains. All of the below combine to create clean, simple, effective websites.

End Products

Database drive websites
E-Commerce
Graphically intense boutique sites
Web based, database driven Silverlight programs
Custom server programs which automate many common tasks
Search Engine Optimzation (SEO)
[Please note - there can be a tradeoff between the look and feel of a website and search engine optimzation. Many of our clients have chosen the former over the years.]

General Technologies

ASP.Net 2.0
C#
Ajax (and the Microsoft Ajax Toolkit
ASP.net MVC
ASP 3.0 (Classic ASP)
Html
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Javascript
VB Script

Programming Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Blend (for some Silvelight applications)

Databases

Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Access
Stored Procedures
Triggers
Database Functions