About Ron Hilbert, Web Designer & Developer
My first commercial web site was up 6 months before Bill Gates had seen the Internet
Confluence Internet Services Inc. is a business to business professional website design and development company. Our mission is to assist companies who provide goods or services with an Internet presence, strategy and the tools necessary to integrate and implement technology into the core of their business. "Bring Businesses and the Internet Together." Our model is to integrate Internet technology with traditional, traditional customer-service concepts and proven marketing strategies.
We are a single source for all the web site design services and support that a company will require to establish a successful presence on the Internet and to successfully market and distribute products or services on the Internet. Our in-depth knowledge of web design, familiarity and experience since 1994 in every aspect of the Internet industry combined with a total focus on one-to-one marketing gives us a unique understanding of what is required to carry out this proposition in addition to providing a great web experience for the consumer.
The services we offer have changed the way that many companies conduct business. Confluence Internet Services Inc. has succeeded by helping each one of its clients by "shedding light on the shadow cast by technology".
Ron has designed web sites for many large and small companies: Jack in the Box Restaurants, HiTech Shoes, Royal Robbins Clothing, American Whitewater Expeditions, Easton Cycling, LOOK Cycling Pedals, Sidi Cycling Shoes, Sea Otter Classic, Big Sur Ride, Austin Lehman, White Industries (bicycle components), River & Trail Outfitters, Wilderness Aware and many, many more.
Ron has been a web designer since
the beginning of the web, he was the cofounder of www.adventuresports.com a
web site he created in 1995. It was on-line 10 months before Bill Gates had
even seen the Internet. Ron was also the cofounder of OutdoorMind LLC and
Executive Vice President of technology and design. Ron has over 30 years of
marketing, sales and management experience. His major in college was fine art
and marketing. In 1964 he painted a series of paintings with IBM computers in
them predicting the future of computer use. Ron is a veteran educator since
receiving his State of California teaching credential in 1979. He is a former
outfitter and retail business owner in Fair Oaks, California. He has founded 13
start up companies of which all are still in business today except two. He is
an avid cyclist, whitewater rafter, kayaker and canoeist. His education in computers
started in 1985 and computer art has been a special interest. He has
continued his computer education at U.C. Davis. He has been honored by Comstock
Magazine with the Vanguard Award for "Innovative use of the Internet" and was a
finalist in the Dottie Awards. He has developed over 50,000 Web pages for over 600
companies worldwide. His
company has been in PC Computing
as one of the "Best of the Web" top 5 Web sites in sports category on the
Internet. Ron has been there through the evolution of the Internet since 1994.
