AB&K was officially incorporated in 1999 [in part as a tax dodge during the internet's gold rush, in part due to client demand] and has continued to evolve since; our founder T.E.D. Andrick quit mainstream corporate America to run the company full time that year and hasn't worn a tie since. Or, for that matter, pants on a regular basis.
Andrick was and remains a technology generalist with roots in product design, educational design, print design, graphic arts and computer networking. In 1995 he realized that the internet would become more than a playground for chat geeks, software pirates and an easy place to find pictures of women in or out of bikinis and began to learn about the evolving technology of the web. He spent the subsequent years helping to develop some of the web's first corporate presences, with a small foray into diversified content delivery & kiosk systems.
The company's mission reflects Andrick's credo of 'whatever works'. For that reason, we continue to offer a variety of services -- everything from industrial design to logo identities to marketing campaigns to print materials to just plain ol' websites. Or not so plain websites.
We also offer borderguarding and condiment design. [Andrick has been both a bouncer and cook, and still takes both to heart. We may be the only company with mandatory weightlifting, martial arts and kitchen time policies.]
What? Were you expecting a treatise on the syllogisms inherent in Jungian and Randian thought?
Andrick was and remains a technology generalist with roots in product design, educational design, print design, graphic arts and computer networking. In 1995 he realized that the internet would become more than a playground for chat geeks, software pirates and an easy place to find pictures of women in or out of bikinis and began to learn about the evolving technology of the web. He spent the subsequent years helping to develop some of the web's first corporate presences, with a small foray into diversified content delivery & kiosk systems.
The company's mission reflects Andrick's credo of 'whatever works'. For that reason, we continue to offer a variety of services -- everything from industrial design to logo identities to marketing campaigns to print materials to just plain ol' websites. Or not so plain websites.
We also offer borderguarding and condiment design. [Andrick has been both a bouncer and cook, and still takes both to heart. We may be the only company with mandatory weightlifting, martial arts and kitchen time policies.]
What? Were you expecting a treatise on the syllogisms inherent in Jungian and Randian thought?
[ about the site ]
Although this site remains a work in progress -- and hopefully, now that we're on version five or six of the thing, we'll keep progressing on work -- we're a bit proud of it, for a variety of reasons.
First, there are a number of interlocking and interfacing technologies being implemented here. Pages are, o' course, driven by PHP, delivering HTML, JavaScript and CSS; no big huhu, except for the really cool MSIE/PNG/filter hack so we can give you those extenisible shadows over the varying background. The navigation system is Flash, accessing JavaScript direct [let's hear it for ExternalInternface.call] -- and those JS variables are being driven by the PHP. The portfolios are Flash accessing PHP to tap MySQL to turn around and deliver XML, with all of it embedded in JavaScript to make that monstrosity from Redmond happy -- and there's a hack to allow for the _blank call for image enlargement, which is again PHP driven. The client section is driven entirely by PHP/MySQL. And so on... we don't know how everything is gonna turn out just yet, but hey, we're having fun.
Second, we're happy about the turnaround; it's taking more time to compose copy than to create the technologies. Actual mechanism creation is below the 40 hour mark.
First, there are a number of interlocking and interfacing technologies being implemented here. Pages are, o' course, driven by PHP, delivering HTML, JavaScript and CSS; no big huhu, except for the really cool MSIE/PNG/filter hack so we can give you those extenisible shadows over the varying background. The navigation system is Flash, accessing JavaScript direct [let's hear it for ExternalInternface.call] -- and those JS variables are being driven by the PHP. The portfolios are Flash accessing PHP to tap MySQL to turn around and deliver XML, with all of it embedded in JavaScript to make that monstrosity from Redmond happy -- and there's a hack to allow for the _blank call for image enlargement, which is again PHP driven. The client section is driven entirely by PHP/MySQL. And so on... we don't know how everything is gonna turn out just yet, but hey, we're having fun.
Second, we're happy about the turnaround; it's taking more time to compose copy than to create the technologies. Actual mechanism creation is below the 40 hour mark.
