About Us
The name “Hummdis Communications” was first used in 1998 by Jeffrey Shepherd, president and founder of Hummdis Communications at the age of 15. Using Netscape Communicator’s built-in web page creator called “Composer.” This is pretty much were it all began. Shepherd continued to make web pages using that program and teaching himself the website language known as Hyper-Text Markup Language, or HTML for short.
By the time Shepherd was 17, he began to use a more professional application called Microsoft FrontPage. Using FrontPage, he redesigned and maintained his high school’s website. While FrontPage is an application that’s known as a WYSIWYG (pronounced “wizzywig”) editor, he quickly found that it was necessary to edit the HTML code manually to get the content of each page aligned just as he wanted it to be. WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get, was not always true.
Over the years, new methods and technologies kept emerging. JavaScript, Java, Flash, Dynamic HTML (DHTML for short), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), and soon AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) came around. After extensive reading and learning of the new AJAX method, Shepherd found it amusing that while people were raving about the new AJAX code, he realized that he had been writing AJAX for years and didn’t even know it, using non-AJAX standard methods. Shepherd had been writing the standard, before it became the standard as many other website designers eventually realized.
Now, using DreamWeaver, PHP, Python, TCL/TK, MySQL, DHTML, JavaScript, Fireworks, as well as other popular technologies and tools, Shepherd formally founded Hummdis Communications in 2007. Nearly 10 years after idealizing the name.
Shepherd has created websites for schools, companies, non-profit organizations, online groups, and individuals. All with one thing in mind: Give them the type of web presence that they ask for at a reasonable and fair price.
Disclaimer
Trademarked names appear throughout this page. Rather than list the names and entities that own the trademarks or insert a trademark symbol with each mention of the trademarked name, Hummdis Communications states that it is using the names only for editorial purposes and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringing upon that trademark.
