Our latest creation is a website for Janet Black Evans from Ontario. She wanted a website to showcase her Barbets to the world. Have a look around her site at www.treebeardbarbets.com or www.barbetdogs.com
I have included a copy of the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship media release below. For more information please visit their website at www.acecanada.ca.
UPEI student named 2010 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion
Charlottetown, PE (Wednesday, February 10, 2010) – Nicholas MacLeod, owner of Future Web Design and full time student at UPEI, has been named the 2010 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.
Since 2003, Nicholas has owned and operated Future Web Design, providing full service information technology services with a strong emphasis on customer service. Future Web Design provides clients with web development, hosting, domain registration, graphic design, photography and IT Technical Support. The company focuses mainly on small business by offering web development and IT services that are of high quality and add value to the company.
Nicholas’s largest business accomplishments to date include being fully supported financially by the business, having a client base across the US and Canada including British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and all Atlantic Provinces as well as having an average of 60% growth in revenue over the past three years.
“For me personally the award provides additional inspiration. It has taken an incredible investment of time and personal sacrifice to bring my business to this point”, explains Future Web Design owner Nicholas MacLeod. “Being recognized brings incentive for me to continue to work hard, set and strive for larger goals.”As a provincial champion, Nicholas will now move on to represent Prince Edward Island in the regional round of competition taking place at the 2010 ACE Regional Exposition in Halifax on February 26, 2010. Provincial Champions will each present their business to a panel of entrepreneurs and industry professionals who will determine two Regional Champions, who will each receive a $1,000 cash prize and move on to the final round of competition at the 2010 ACE National Exposition in Calgary on May 12th, 2010. The National Champion will receive a $10,000 cash prize and represent Canada at the international level of competition, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.
“With today’s ever changing economic situation, ACE is proud to continue its work developing leaders, creating connections and impacting communities, explains President of ACE, Amy Harder. Our 2010 Student Entrepreneur Provincial Champions will no doubt contribute meaningfully to the Canadian economy for years to come.”
About ACE
Founded in the mid-1980s, ACE is a national, charitable organization that is teaching and igniting young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves and their communities. Through a collaborative partnership between higher education and industry, ACE delivers programming that provides university and college students access to real world experience that compliments in-class studies. By creating and delivering business ventures and outreach projects, students make a meaningful contribution to their communities today, while also discovering their potential to achieve an even greater impact as the leaders of tomorrow.
CIBC became a founding corporate sponsor of ACE in 1995 and has sponsored the Student Entrepreneur Competition since its inception in 1997.Contact:
Jaime Szegvary
Communications Consultant, ACE
416.619.8994
jaime@acecanada.ca
www.acecanada.ca
www.aceexpos.caNicholas MacLeod
Owner, Future Web Design
902.626.5828
sales@futurewebdesign.net
www.futurewebdesign.net
Future Web Design owner and founder, Nicholas MacLeod is proud to have been awarded the 2010 Student Entrepreneur of the Year Prince Edward Island by Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship Inc. (ACE).
About the Student Entrepreneur Competition:
The Student Entrepreneur program operated by ACE is the only national program to focus solely on full time Canadian post-secondary student entrepreneurs. It is a program that strives to enrich participant’s lives through recognition, networking and providing a unique learning experience.
Since inception in 1997 this program has celebrated the commitment, determination and achievements of student entrepreneurs through an awards based competition. This competition is open to full-time students at Canadian universities or colleges who are simultaneously operating their own businesses.
I have been invited to the ACE Regional Exposition, Atlantic Canada which is being held at the World Trade and
Convention Centre in Halifax, NS on February 25-26, 2010. I will be competing against the provincial student entrepreneurs from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.
I would like to personally thank the two references contacted by ACE, Alanna Jankov of Image Factory – Alanna’s Photography and Barry MacKinnon of Nice and Natural.
To learn more about Future Web Design visit our website at www.futurewebdesign.net
Mark Grant has just launched his new website promoting his kennel in Halifax, NS. I had a lot of fun with this design. There was a lot of information to fit into the site but we managed just fine with the use of sub-navigation. We wish Mark all the best in the 2010 show season.
Check out the site at the link below.
We are pleased to show off our latest web design project. New Life Resources has recently launched their new website. Joan Macdonald has been a long time client of Future Web Design and we were more than happy to work with her on her new venture.
To have a closer look at the new site check out the link below.
PEI Business Development has a program to assist businesses in getting online. The program offers successful applicants a free contribution to developing a new website. Why not start 2010 by having Future Web Design prepare a quote to go with the application for the Web Presence Program. This would fit in perfectly with our new e-Commerce web solution. You can download the application form at the bottom of this post.
Some more details:
The Web Presence Program provides a non-repayable contribution to Prince Edward Island
businesses to assist them in establishing a presence on the internet. Prince Edward Island
is becoming one of the leading provinces for web presence in Canada. The purpose of this
program is to help Island companies increase business by adopting technology. The contribution
under this program is limited to 40% of the cost to a maximum contribution of $500.00 per
small business. This program is sponsored by Prince Edward Island Business Development
and Technology PEI.
Download: PEI Business Devemopment Web Presence Program (38)
To get in touch about having a site designed for this program please contact us.
We have finally put the finishing touches on the Nice and Natural site. This site features the new e-commerce solution mentioned in the previous post. You can check out the new site at www.niceandnatural.ca
Happy New Year!
We are excited to be able to offer a new product for customers in 2010! We have added an e-commerce solution to our product listing.
Some details:
Future Web Design offers an end to end e-commerce solution for existing or new businesses looking to take a business idea online. Future Web Design can implement, maintain and host a complete e-commerce solution.
We currently have clients using these e-commerce systems and the response has been over whelming. The system is designed to be search engine friendly from day one. With the easy to use administration panel you are able to track orders with only a few clicks. Inventory management lets you monitor inventory levels and receive low inventory emails. The system will not let a customer order products that are out of stock.
Prices vary based on the needs of the clients. If you are interested in taking your business online please contact us for our e-commerce pricing. Future Web Design also has an online demo version of the software available. Contact for more details.
I hope to be able to post a release early next week for the new website that is using our e-commerce solution.
2010 is going to bring big things to Future Web Design and our clients both new and existing!
A blog has been something that has been on the never ending to-do list for my company.
I will be using this blog to primarily provide updates about things that are going on here at Future Web Design. I will be publishing all of my new site launches here as well as some tips and tricks and maybe even some fun articles.
Looking forward to a great year in 2010!
