Coming Soon: KaioCreative

I want to first of all thank all of my past and present clients who have been asking about the new direction that Firewind Productions will be taking in 2009.  For my existing commercial clients, please rest assured that I value your business and friendship highly, and am happy to continue serving you under the terms of our present agreement as long as you would like.   However at this present time I am not accepting more than one or two new commercial or e-commerce clients a month except for a few exceptions.

Firewind Productions will not be going out of business, but I am restructuring and refocusing primarily on the non-profit and ministry clients that I originally became a web designer to help. Instead of multiple packages, I'll be offering one new supported website solution.

Introducing KaioCreative

KaioCreative is a fully customized, fully supported installation of a modified version of the glFusion content management system including hosting, tech support, security upgrades and maintenance necessary to keep the site secure and in the best possible working order.  The system is optimized for speed, accessibility, and all of the major search engines.

Just a few features:

• One custom site theme/master layout design (additional custom site themes/layout redesigns are available at any time during the life of your website for $299).
• One free domain name
• No limits! Create an unlimited number of pages, blogs, links, events, polls, forums, media albums, and more. Hosting includes unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, an unlimited number of email addresses, and much more.  Your site grows as you grow.
• Fully integrated user forums, master and private calendars, and tons more.
• Award-winning rich text editor is as easy to use as your favorite word processing program.
• Rich media management utility handles photos, audio, video; even Flash files. Create podcasts, manage an unlimited number of photo albums, stream audio & video, and embed almost any kind of media almost anywhere on your website.
• One-click article submission to Digg.com allows your site visitors to spread the word!
• Integrated syndication technology makes your content instantly both search-engine and people friendly! Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, a Google sitemap that notifies Google whenever you add or change content on your site, a comprehensive people-friendly sitemap that automatically updates when you post content, plus an integrated trackback/ping system for blog-friendly content syndication.
• Complete user/member management handles site registration and allows each registered user to customize their own account preferences, change their password & email address, etc.
• Set up an unlimited number of email addresses, autoresponders, discussion lists and more.
• Fully integrated security group system allows you to safely delegate authority to trusted individuals and specify exactly who has access to content posted to your website.
• Personalized, one-on-one or group session training for up to 12 people. Please contact me for session scheduling information.

The heart and soul of what I do is helping people take their ideas, start a fire, and cultivate the growth of their influence both on and off the Web. This new solution that I'll be offering is designed to make it incredibly simple to publish rich content to the web that is accessible to both search engines and organic visitors.

Commercial Pricing

NEW COMMERCIAL CLIENTS: One low yearly subscription rate with no setup fee, or one low monthly rate with a $399 setup fee.

For my existing commercial clients, an upgrade to KaioCreative is available for a $499 one-time setup charge. Your present agreed-upon yearly or monthly rate will remain the same. Some conditions apply; please stay tuned to this site for more information or contact me for details.

Alternatively, you are welcome to continue under the terms of your present agreement with your present yearly or monthly rate. I will still provide hosting and tech support as long as possible. Unfortunately, at some point I may have to discontinue support for the old system and security updates may not be available.

For e-commerce clients, I am not presently offering an e-commerce solution but my team and I are in the process of developing an e-commerce plugin for KaioCreative.

Non-Profit/Ministry Pricing

It's been a poorly-kept secret that for the past several years, I have been offering non-profit clients my best package for $700/year with no setup charge, or $70/month with a $199 one-time setup charge.

However, it is my intention to accept ministry and non-profit clients on a case-by-case basis, and I want to work with you to remain within your budget.

To apply for special pricing and other consideration, please contact me with a detailed description of your organization and your goals. I will be completely up-front with my costs, and anything additional you can help with (if you are able) would be great. If you are able to pay more, you'll be helping me to help more great organizations like your own.

Stay tuned for more information!