ALARMING NEWS ON WEB SITE THEFT
It was an interesting and very disheartening Thanksgiving Weekend here at PCA. We discovered that a company in CA duplicated our Web site and is claiming that all of the work in our portfolio was actually designed and created by them.
They copied the entire Web site and replaced our logo with theirs, replaced our phone number with theirs and replaced our e-mail with theirs and began soliciting work through free on-line classifieds in markets across the country. We were notified of this by someone who was about to hire the other company. At the last minute, they decided to visit some of the Web sites in the portfolio and when they got there, they saw the "Site Design and Hosted by PCA Web Design and Hosting" tag that we place at the bottom of all of our sites. They then visited our Web site and were SHOCKED to see the same Web site with a different logo. They contacted us to determine who really did all the work in our portfolio.
A few days later we were contacted by another Web deisgner alerting us to the same thing. He evidentally had done the exact same thing to her in October.
We are seeking criminal charges against this company as copyright is a federal crime punishable by jail time and fines. Hopefully the district attorney will go after this company with a vengance. We have since found 5 other sites (not related to us at all) that he has stolen from other various companies. He is evidentally a full time scam artist.
PCA is pleased to announce that you can now purchase a self-managed on-line newsletter, like the one you are currently reading. This new announce list allows you to upload an e-mail list to our server and then you can send out mass e-mails customized with your company header. You may include up to 10,000 e-mails and an unlimited number of e-mails may be sent during the year. The on-line management area allows you to type in articles and format them (i.e. bold, underline, color certain text, etc...) You can also add photos like we have above in our "Great New Sites" section. You can easily create a newsletter in about 1 hour to send to all of your clients, business associates and/or members of an association.
Cost:
Set up: $200.00***
Annual Hosting cost: $125.00
***This includes setting up your e-mail newsletter database and installing a newsletter banner (like the one at the top of this e-mail newsletter).
Christie, Pam, Francine, Amy and the rest of the PCA Web Design and Hosting Team
