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Our Timeline
1998
December 19, 1998 VisionFriendly.com was founded as a subsidiary division of Vision Enterprises of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The business plan called for the development of easy to navigate visually attractive websites at an attractive cost.
1999
July 1, 1999 VisionFriendly.com
became independent as Vision Enterprises and VisionFriendly.com
agreed to form two separate companies.
November
1999 VisionFriendly.com website KanelandKnights.org was
named the best High School Sports website in Illinois
by the Chicago Sun Times.
2000
February
2000 VisionFriendly.com started Hosting
websites with Interland, the number
one hosting service in the nation according to
PC Magazine.
June
2000 VisionFriendly.com became an Internet
service provider with Xlinet to provide ISP
services.
July
2000 VisionFriendly.com developed a construction
area, an innovative way for clients
to keep an eye on the progress of their website
as it is being built with a status report of the
progress.
September
2000 VisionFrieindly.com became the ISP for Elburn
Chamber of Commerce, Aurora Chamber
of Commerce, and the Aurora
Airport. Aurora Mayor Stover even commented, "what
a great site Aurora Airport is."
October
2000 VisionFriendly.com became a National ISP.
2001
January
2001 With over 100 active customers VisionFriendly.com
celebrated two years of business with the purchase
of the latest state of the art Cobalt high speed
server to ensure even better Internet service
for its clients.
September
2001 VisionFriendly.com developed flexible
online E-commerce software package that allows
users to easily update their Product Database from
anywhere in the world.
October
2001 VisionFriendly.com developed a new concept
in e-mails with Hometown E-mails as a way to customize
your e-mail address.
December
2001 VisionFriendly.com partnered with MCC
Technologies and Blastcomm to offer high-speed
Broadband Wireless to both businesses and residential
users in Kane County and the Fox Valley area.
2002
January
2002 VisionFriendly.com implemented Web-based
e-mail.
March
2002 VisionFriendly.com purchases a 2nd Unix
server.
November
2002 VisionFriendly.com in partnership with
CSI communications opens a technology store, selling
all of VisionFriendly.com's services along with
cellular phone services.
2003
February
2003 VisionFriendly.com becomes a .NET company.
March 2003 VisionFriendly.com purchases 2 support
SUV's.
April
2003 VisionFriendly.com
is proud to introduce Foray Change. Foray Change
is a user update package that allow our clients
to easily update text and tables on selected
pages on their website.
November
2003 VisionFriendly.com becomes a Microsoft
partner.
December
2003 VisionFriendly.com becomes 5 years old
and adds its fourth Internet server to the server
pool.
2004
May
2004 VisionFriendly.com added 10 new Products to
its arsenal of offerings.
July
2004 VisionFriendly.com added two more
support SUV's to its fleet.
2005
March
2005 VisionFriendly.com moves into a new
office space in Aurora Municipal Airport with
a view of the runway.
June
2005 VisionFriendly.com franchises. Our first
office opens in Chicago.
July
2005 VisionFriendly.com introduces website templates online.
August
2005 VisionFriendly.com licensed the
name VisionFriendly as a Trademark and creates a
new alias: VFS (VisionFriendly Services)
September
2005 VFS opens a new office in the Smoky
Mountains: Asheville, NC.
September
2005 VFS introduces "PTOLive.com," a product
(website) for school parent organizations that allows
special school functions to be paid online, saving
on time and paperwork.
2006
January
2006 VFS introduces "Data Depot Pro," a
web based CRM system that simplifies CRM with tools
like one-click on-screen dialing.
February
2006 VFS introduces a professional version
of a "Pay Pal like" online Credit Card processing
option for small clients. This service, called
VFSWebPay.com, makes E-commerce simple and cost attractive.
May
2006 VFS makes a splash at the"Rolling
Down the River" business to business expo
at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles.
December
2006 VFS gains national attention when
client site The
Tie Bar is featured prominently on CNBC.
2007
April
2007 VisionFriendly.com is featured in
the Elburn Herald Newspaper.
July
2007 VFS adds live video web cast of West
Aurora High School football and basketball games
to its list of Internet capabilities TV.SD129.org.
Also, provided streaming video of Mount Carmel
football games.
August
2007 VisionFriendly.com rolls out it
largest website ever - 9,400 pages for the SD129.org West
Aurora High School website.
September
2007 VisionFriendly.com adds a 26' fifth
wheel trailer to its fleet. Customized to act as
a mobile recording studio, with an area to develop
full video productions, plus the ability to create
live streaming video for the web.
December
2007 VisionFriendly.com enters the Video
production arena announcing the creation of VisionFriendly
Studios.
2008
January
2008 VisionFriendly.com wins the Media
Achievement Award for "Honoring Excellence
in Media", with its new Video website located
at TV.SD129.org
April
2008 VisionFriendly.com builds its 1,000th
website!
May
2008 VisionFriendly.com was identified
as one of The Ten Most Dependable™ Web Designers
of the Central U.S. by Goldline Research and published
in Entrepreneur Magazine. View
Article
September
2008 On Labor Day VisionFriendly.com moved
to its new location at 651 Prairie Pointe Drive in
Yorkville.
November 2008 10th Anniversary and Open House celebration. Click Here for Video.
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2009
January 2009 VisionFriendly.com introduces its "Education Division".
May 2009 VisionFriendly.com introduces Mobile Computing options.
June 2009 VisionFriendly.com introduces Social Media Marketing Services.
November 2009 VisionFriendly.com adds 6 new Products and 4 new Services providing our customers a selection of: 16 Products and 20 Services.
December 2009 VisionFriendly.com rolls out its new "Super Website".
2012
June 2012 On June 1, 2012 VisionFriendly.com moved
to its new location at 1245 E. Diehl Road, Suite 307 in
Naperville, IL.
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