Our Purpose

We provide an expansive collection of technology and internet services to small and medium businesses and their owners and officers using a unique methodology not readily found in modern technology businesses: honesty, integrity, ethics and intelligence
 

The Web Fin Way of Doing Business

Web Fin believes in the Golden Rule. We treat our clients and partners like we wish to be treated. It may sound old-fashioned, but we are unable to accept any other way for us to do business
 

Our Founder

Bruce Alatalo
BA - Education, Michigan State University
MA - Instructional Technology, University of Michigan

Instructional Systems Designer, Programmer, Video producer, Web site Developer

What We Do

We use the word Development in our name because that’s what we do: we develop web sites and multimedia projects to fit our clients’ needs and wishes. We advise, recommend,conceive, create, design, delineate, organize, develop, produce, integrate, implement, refine,  install, maintain, and upgrade
 

Web Site Development
Strategic planning
Development and deployment of custom web sites
Marketing, maintenanceand upgrades of sites
New web site and development
Upgrades and expansion of existing web sites
Custom Javascripts and applets to enhance existing web sites.

Advanced Web Technology Integration
Video production, editing, and conversion to streaming formats
Deployment of video to the Internet
Distance learning technologies
Audio and Animated sequences
Dynamic Page Generation
Links with external databases

Multimedia Project Development
Video, Audio, Software, Graphics
DVDs, Videotapes, CDs, Web Dissemination
Combined Hardware and Software systems

Our Company

Why Web?

• Some say it’s because we are a web site developer (Over a dozen large scale web sites developed and deployed)
• It could be that we implement web enabling services to small businesses to help them compete successfully in a 21st century economy
• It also might be that we help develop new business revenue streams and business procedures for our clients utilizing the world wide web
   

Why Fin?

• Speculation has it the Fin represents our ability to streamline your multimedia for web use, allowing it to “cut” through Internet bottlenecks like a fin slices through water.
• It could also be because the founder is a Finn and has dealt with the Internet since it’s inception
• It may also be in honor of a fellow Finn, Linus Torvalds, who is a pioneer in the development of Linux and the Open Source software movement.
   

Why Development?

• To develop is to make something new. That is what we do. That is what we love to do.
• Development also implies a step by step progressioin through a series of tasks to reach a final goal or outcome. It’s a process and so are we.
   

Why Web Fin?

• There is no speculation here.  Together with our Web Fin sister companies, we can provide a full spectrum of expertise and services that meet most of our clients’ home and business technological needs and wishes: computers, networks, video, the internet, smart homes, and education. And each of the Web Fin companies have the same philosophy and ways of doing business as we do. Like the saying goes: “None of us is as smart as all of us.”  When a technological issue arises, there is only one number you need to call. The buck stops at Web Fin.
   

Our Views on Doing Projects

• Projects involve a balancing of 3 key factors: Completion Time, Cost, and Quality. Generally, you can pick any two.
• The last 1% of quality increase will cost 100% more. Finding the point of diminishing returns consistently provides the best value for the buck. 
• Producing clean, quality work without adding the significant costs to provide the extraordinary is usually the best way to go and the fairest to clients. This helps develop a positive long term relationship
• We evaluate and recommend the hardware and software that best fits a client’s needs and budget.  We even use our contacts and industry clout to obtain the best prices we can and serve as our client’s advocate when pricing, timimg, quality, or warranty issues arise. But in order to maintain our objectivity, we do not mark up and resell equipment.  We are developers, not vendors! Thus, any temptation to recommend a solution that may be better for us than for our client is eliminated. We can then shop intelligently on behalf of clients.