In the fall of 1998, while Brooks White was working as a product manager at ClickNet Software Corporation, he was approached by several people who knew about his marketing and design expertise and needed some Web-related work done. Brooks approached Frederik Goris, ClickNet's full-time Web engineer, and asked if he wanted to collaborate on these independent projects.

From these humble beginnings, Manx Web Solutions was born.

From the very beginning, our focus has been on bringing very high quality Internet and Web services to small and medium-sized businesses that otherwise could not acquire those services. This was related closely to our other main goal, which was to bring a high level of marketing expertise to Web site design.

We felt, and still feel, that while a large company may benefit from specific areas of expertise that a consulting company like Manx can bring to the table, there is no one better qualified to really address the company's goals and ideals in their Web design than their own internal Web team.

A smaller company may not be so lucky as to have the expertise of an internal Web team. Very often the job of Web design is delegated to someone who's main job at the company is in neither marketing nor design, or even worse, to the CFO's second cousin who once took an HTML class at the local junior college and can offer her services for $6.50 an hour.

This is where Manx comes in. We not only bring a level of expertise to our clients which these people do not have, but we strive to get to know them well enough to be able to act as an extension of their company. In this way, we can address the company's goals and ideals as though we were their own Web team.