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Ericka's Softouch
Since 1994, Ericka's Softouch has been a user friendly company providing service in:
- Web page design
- Maintenance
- Forum administration
- Computer Consulting and Training
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- Research techniques
- Internet tools and searches
- Troubleshooting
- Training in troubleshooting
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History, starting up in 1994
Ericka's Softouch began in Austin, Texas in 1994 as a simple computer troubleshooting and typing company after receiving numerous requests from family friends to fix their computers. Quickly Ericka's Softouch branched in training of basic computer and office skills such as; scanners, copiers, printers, fax machines, typewriters, digital cameras, modems, batch file use, and software applications. Also in 1994, Ericka's Softouch began teaching basic programming to family friend's children.
Big changes in 1996
In 1996 a major project was undertaken which soon lead to a complete change in the company structure and focus. It was a very new idea, for the times, and a huge task. The goal was to create a CD-ROM yearbook for the Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities. While many options were explored and partially developed (such as a 3D creation of the dorms using a program similar to VRML), in order to allow the most number of users to access the final product, with the best chances for long-term computer survival, HTML was finally decided on for the design. We did miss on the guess that Netscape would win the browser wars, however in anticipation for such a chance, we included the version of Netscape it was originally designed to run with.
Starting in 1997 Ericka's Softouch began webpage development. A few of the clients included; a company specializing in power washing, numerous personal websites, ASEP-TECH, marketing techniques for pre-existing websites, a website for the University Tower's Halloween pictures, websites for updated Breast Cancer information, a guide to raising and care of Love Birds for breeders, and the Unofficial TALH Web Page. Ericka's Softouch also started an introductory to webpage design page in order to educate home users while attracting larger companies. Also in 1997, Ericka's Softouch branched into CDs designed for portfolio presentation (example).
In 2001 Ericka moved to Australia and Ericka's Softouch was put into limbo.
In 2003 Ericka's Softouch opened its doors again assisting with webpage design, forum administration, and marketing at The Third Restoration. *Marketing with the Third Restoration included a set of demonstration/marketing videos. The first video was received far better than ever anticipated and crashed servers in less than a day of being put online (even before marketing was fully implemented). There were well over 300 downloads in less than 6 hours (of the large version, and an unknown amount of small version downloads which was housed on an undocumented server). And this number is greatly under exaggerated as it only accounts for one of the mirrors, due to the mass amounts of re-mirroring (over 10 in the first day that were known of). The first video still receives a stream of hits, although the massive amounts seen before have decreased.
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