Ten Years of Web
Work
Greg Paulhus, President and founder of Arxus,
has been creating successful websites since 1995. That's a lot
of experience as a Web Strategist, considering that the World
Wide Web was only invented in 1991, the first consumer web browser
(Netscape) was launched in late 1994, and Yahoo.com didn't launch
until 1995.
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1995 |
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Yahoo.com is
launched, gets one hundred thousand visitors per day. |
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There are about
twenty thousand websites on the Internet. |
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Greg Paulhus
is working as a production manager in the newspaper industry
and produces one of Canada's first newspaper websites. |
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1996 |
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The domain name,
tv.com, sells for fifteen thousand dollars (US). |
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Greg starts
his own web development company and produces websites for
a number of clients, including online annual reports for two
multi-million dollar corporations. |
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Greg begins
publishing an online magazine with regularly updated personal
commentary and links, before the terms 'web log' or 'blog'
are invented. |
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1997 |
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There are now
one million websites on the Internet. |
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Greg's design
work in the newspaper industry wins a number of provincial
and national awards, including Best All Around Newspaper and
Best Advertising Idea. |
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Greg partners
with one of Canada's top web technology firms, opens their
Saskatchewan branch, and builds some of the first database-driven
websites with complete content management systems in Canada. |
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1998 |
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Google.com launches
with three staff in a space attached to a garage. The new
search engine gets ten thousand search requests per day. |
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Greg uses his
newspaper experience and launches SaskNews, a dynamic news
website that brings together many Saskatchewan community newspapers
on the Internet. The site is the first of its kind in Canada,
gets lots of press coverage, and even wins a few awards. |
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Greg is producing
numerous websites with advanced content management systems,
allowing clients easy point and click control of their websites. |
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1999 |
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The domain name,
business.com, sells for $7.5 million (US). |
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Greg produces
the first professional website for Cover-All Building Systems,
complete with a private dealer support site. The site helps
Cover-All expand into export markets worldwide. |
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Greg produces
inoculants.com for Philom Bios, the world's first interactive
website dedicated to educating the agricultural sector about
crop inoculants. In the first year of the site's operation,
sales at Philom Bios increase 40 percent to a record all-time
high. |
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2000 |
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Over eight billion
email messages are sent worldwide. |
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The technology
firm Greg works with as a senior strategist is ranked by the
National Post Business Magazine as one of the top ten web
firms in Canada. |
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Greg produces
an online information portal for the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
Association. The site features a number of database-driven
web applications which give farmers all over the world access
to a wealth of information about pulse crops. |
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2001 |
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Internet use
in Canada and the United States passes the fifty percent mark.
People who don't use the Internet are now in the minority. |
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Greg begins
working on the concept of the SmartSite, a better way of planning
and creating websites. The SmartSite is the culmination of
many years of experience building top level web projects.
The SmartSite framework also integrates concepts and ideas
from the many manufacturing clients Greg has worked with,
the profession of architecture, and Greg's award-winning experience
as a production manager in the newspaper industry. |
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2002 |
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Web logs or
blogs are becoming popular with mainstream Internet users,
there are close to one million blogs online. |
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Greg starts
a new company, Arxus, to develop the SmartSite concept and
help small and mid-size companies improve their websites. |
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One of Greg's
first SmartSite clients is not a small business at all, but
rather a multi-billion dollar global corporation in need of
extensive web planning and strategy work. The SmartSite framework
delivers exactly what the client needs and passes its first
very big test with flying colors. |
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2003 |
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Apple launches
the iTunes Music Store, offering legal music downloads at
99 cents per song. The iTunes service grows quickly, becoming
the world's top online music service with over 70 percent
market share. |
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Greg continues
to develop and improve the Arxus SmartSite. His clients are
some of Saskatchewan's top companies and organizations, including:
CEG Energy, ROCY Homes, Sawyer's Trees & Landscapes, the
Saskatchewan Advanced Technology Association, and more. |
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