American Programmers Independent, LLC. provides web development services to business and to individuals. Please feel free to look at our Rate Sheet and Terms of Service for more information.
A web Designer is a graphic artist who provides art for web sites. The designer’s skill is in selecting the colors and designs to make the site appear attractive. A web Developer is a computer programmer who writes the computer programs which make the web site work.
Together, the web Designer creates the appearance of the web site and the Developer provides functionality so that the web site actually does something. Both are necessary and neither is a replacement for the other.
Sometimes, persons who are neither a trained graphic artist nor a trained computer programmer will decide that “there is money to be made” in selling web sites to people. These persons are mostly skilled in selling things, and work from canned programs that they may not even understand themselves, or “borrow” web sites from other places and simply change some of the content so that the site appears to have been created by them for their customer. The customer is usually a non-technical person who never knows what was actually done until the salesman is long gone with their money (typically $2,000 to $5,000) and a lawyer retained by the owner of the web site that they copied comes calling.
API creates unique web sites for each of its customers to their specification. We have our own graphic designers and computer programmers: we do not copy other people’s web sites and re-sell them. We use only our own code or materials that are in the public domain to create our unique designs: our customers never need to worry about litigation for copyright infrindgment: our sites are made ethically and legally.
A simple web site will typically cost about $300 from API, using state of the art database driven technology and either Open Source graphic art, which is free, or custom art which is created for you by our artists at a very competitive price. Individual labor hours are also available at a very competitive rate, and can be used for tasks such as updating an existing web site. We can also install comprehensive Open Source solutions for blogging and bulletin board sites.
Please feel free to look at our Rate Sheet and Terms of Service for more information.