PM Photo -
Website Design & Web Maintenance
About PM Photo
About PM Photo & Computer Services
My name is Paul M. Van Dort. Beside me is Trivia, named after the Roman deity who stood guard over three crossroads. Trivia is a 90% wolf-hybrid who keeps me company in my home office.
I started the PM Photo in the Fall of 1990 after spending 26 years on the technical and sales side of the photographic industry. My computer background started around 1972 with classes in Fortran II and IV. Eight years later I began working on the PC.
The first PC had a processing speed of less than 3 MHz, no hard drive, no sound, no video card, no modem, no Windows, but it did have two 5 inch floppy drives, a mono-chrome green monitor and was connected to a 9 pin dot matrix printer. The operating system was DOS, and if you wanted a special application, you could always create it in a programming language called Basic. Any type of graphic, except for a straight line, was virtually non-existent.
In 1990 I started using a program called CorelDRAW 2.0 to create logos, and drawings. The Corel Corporation sponsored a World Wide contest and in their fifth year I received two "Honorable Mentions" for graphic designs. In 1998 the Corel Corporation flew my wife and me to Ottawa, Canada to receive one of the eight monthly awards for publishing in the Corel 8th International Competition. But, the most rewarding part of using Corel was the six years I spent teaching the program to others at Truckee Meadows Community College.
During the latter half of 1995 I plunged myself into the World Wide Web by first designing a personal web site and then designing sites for other businesses.
I have established a network of "Industry Professionals" so that whatever your project is, PM Photo & Computer Services can take you from "Concept to Final Product ". The philosophy I have built the business on is:
Offer a quality product, fast and reliable service at
reasonable prices.
A Change of Websites
When I first had a web site, it was on what is called a sub-domain. I still have that site, although in several years ago, I basically donated the space to my High School's 40th reunion. If you are interested in some old HS photos, check it out. http://web1.greatbasin.net/~pmphoto/
In 1996 I tried to obtain PMPhoto.com but it was already taken by a photographer back east. I found that Tonga would allow non-residents to have a domain name and so I registerd www.pmphoto.to
Over the last twelve years that site has expanded to over 600 pages. Many of them are devoted to the 1939 NY World's Fair. Other pages offer personal items for sale, and of course my business occupies quite a few of the remaining pages.
In 2006 I took a friend's recommendation and purchased PMPhoto.us (this site). Up until March 2008 I used it as a mirror-site having all the links point to the TO web site.
This was picked up by the search engines and cost me my good ranking when it came to my business links.
So as of March 2008, I am going to slowly move all of the web site pages to this site. During the year, I will slowly move all traffic concerning web sites away from my TO site to this, the US site.
Thank you for taking the time to read this page.
