Midtown resident turns website updates into Compupages business
Creativity and entrepreneurship is alive and well in Detroit, especially in Midtown’s emerging class of new economy workers. Excerpt: Douglas Doyle found his niche when he started Compupages three years ago in Midtown. The one-man start-up specializes in updating and enhancing web sites for organizations that don’t necessarily have the money for all of the bells, whistles and Flash features for cutting-edge sites. “Most people’s web sites don’t have the necessary features (like Flash or e-commerce) because the person who designed them wasn’t a professional,” Doyle says. Read the rest of the story here.
Creativity and entrepreneurship is alive and well in Detroit, especially in Midtown’s emerging class of new economy workers.
Excerpt:
Douglas Doyle found his niche when he started Compupages three years ago in Midtown. The one-man start-up specializes in updating and enhancing web sites for organizations that don’t necessarily have the money for all of the bells, whistles and Flash features for cutting-edge sites.
“Most people’s web sites don’t have the necessary features (like Flash or e-commerce) because the person who designed them wasn’t a professional,” Doyle says.
Read the rest of the story here.
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