The time frame for the website is really dependent on your needs. To be thorough, we would like to have a solid four weeks to get a full evaluation of your newspaper complete and enough time to properly program and design it.

However, if you come prepared with your needs and wants, a week could be shaved off the timeframe: 3 weeks.

First let me welcome you to this website. As you can see, this is the first blog entry for the site, which I am writing about 24 hours before the official launch of the site. Needless to say, myself and the team here at Maine Web FX are excited for the launch, which we hope will in some small well help the newspaper industry come to full stride on the web.

But the question we keep getting from people (in regard to the launch) is, "why newspapers?"

It's true that we have a web design firm that runs the gamut for design and programming already. The firm does everything from e-commerce to real estate. But our passion has always been newspapers.

Starting out as a reporter at the Brattleboro Reformer in Vermont, I had my share of great stories to cover. When the excitement waned, I moved to Phoenix, where I worked for a weekly newspaper covering cops and crime before working at a daily ... covering much of the same.

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Full content management systems to fit your newspaper's website needs from the ground up. Customizable, easy to use, automated and functional.

This has been our philosophy in creating websites for newspapers throughout the United States. Our staff has worked with large newspapers in the Phoenix-metro area to small newspapers in the small towns of Vermont to bring papers of any size and circulation to the forefront of the web.

A newspaper website design and programmed by Maine Web FX is much more than just a few pages slapped together to get the news online. We take the time to look and evaluate your needs. We understand some of the very real hurdles newspapers are facing as the medium defines itself online. Our experience is strong in all aspects of the newspaper industry.

Each website we create is unique to its parent newspaper. The process is threefold.