About Thomas Brunt

Your decision to do business with OutFront comes down to your trust that I am capable of helping you create successful projects and that I am dedicated to your satisfaction.

My Web development career began in 1996 when I was in graduate school seeking my Masters degree in Educational Technology at the University of South Carolina.  I had a grad-assistant job during that time as the Webmaster for the USC College of Education.  My job was to redesign, rebuild, and maintain the college's Web presence and to conduct personal tutoring sessions with all interested college faculty members to show them how to use Microsoft FrontPage to update their own Web sites.

Renaissance Interactive (now defunct) hired me in 1997.  Renaissance was a large regional Web development company based in Columbia, South Carolina.  At its height Renaissance had more than 100 employees and venture capital funding to the tune of $15 million.  We developed sites for some quite large companies such as Wachovia Bank and Siemens.  We also developed smaller sites for medium sized businesses.  My job at Renaissance was to use a graphic designer's Photoshop files and a client's content to create a top quality Web site and then train 1 or more of the client's employees to edit and manage the site with Microsoft FrontPage.  I did that for approximately 3 years.

I was also an original Macromedia Beta tester for Dreamweaver 1.0, and I completed a project for a fortune 500 company using the Dreamweaver 1.0 beta 3 months before the software was released for sale.

I started OutFront in 1998 as a hobby.  It was exclusively a FrontPage support site at first, but it quickly grew to include Dreamweaver users as well.  I was able to leave Renaissance to go full-time with OutFront 2 years later.  It was then that I convinced my wife Bonnie to take some graphic design courses.  She was always very artistic and quite computer literate.  I knew she would do well, but I had no idea how well at the time.  Since then, Bonnie and I have collaborated on over 500 Web design projects.  OutFront began leasing servers in top quality data centers and offering hosting service in 2003.  We now have over 800 sites.  Our growth is steady but not so fast that we're encountering any difficulties in providing service to our customers.

There are no plans to turn OutFront into a large organization.  We are a mom and pop shop for the new millennium.  We give personal attention to each customer.  We have helped a lot of people create successful Web projects, and we have very much enjoyed getting to know people from all over the world.  We would like to get to know you too.  :)

Sincerely,
Thomas A. Brunt