Passion for Excellence
Knowledge.
A fine history of creativity and technological advances.
What is ONDABOX?
We are a premier graphic and web design company that builds incredible online experiences. Using Site Manager—our groundbreaking development platform—we create online experiences limited only by your imagination. Our talented staff of designers and developers can complete most projects faster and more cost efficient than other competitors. Plus, our network partners, enable us to deliver any project on any scale.
Our Story
ONDABOX began as Hartley Parker d'Signs, in 1993, by Jahmal Hartley and Ricardo Parker, two college juniors attending The City College of the City University of New York. Jahmal, ONDABOX Chief of Design and Development, is an experienced designer and software engineer from the Bronx. Ricardo Parker, an accomplished web and graphic designer, is also from the Bronx. Kathleen Springer, ONDABOX President, joined the duo in 1995, helping to stabilize the company financially. Together they laid the foundation for the passion the company has today.
Before being renamed as ONDABOX, in 2004, the company enjoyed many years of success in commercial design and printing. After moving our headquarters to Colorado, we shifted our focus from printing services to online website development. We also expanded our client base to include customers from coast to coast.
Over the last decade, we have focused our passion on being a premier web design and development company. Since 2001, our develolpment team has been focused on expanding our current development platform Site Manager. Which currently out performs all other development platforms including majors like Drupal, Joomla, Business Catalyst, WordPress.
“We realized back in the mid nineties when we were building websites how nice it would be if these static web pages could actually do something. So we decided we would develop a solution. We are one of the pioneers in this industry. And now we have one of the most sophisticated platforms on the market today.”
Jahmal Hartley, Chief of Design and Development — ONDABOX
The birth of Site Manager
Originally Site Manager was called Art Manager and was developed for an artist who wanted to manage his onlne portfolio website himself. It was 2004, and we were breaking significant ground.
In 2005, we added an e-commerce component called Store Manager. Later we also created the Event Manager, Audio and Video Galleries, Blog/Forum Manager, Subscription Manager and others.
In 2010, we rewrote the entire code base for the Site Manager. In this industry a rewrite with a product only a few years old is very uncommon, but we felt that, at the current pace that new internet technology was being developed, we would soon be out paced by the new competitors entering the market. We needed a platform that was more flexible and easier to expand. With our new code base we deploy dozens of new features almost at will.
At ONDABOX, our driving force is our passion for excellence. This has kept us pushing the company forward for 20 years. We go the extra mile for our customers because we are so passionate about what we do and take great pride in our client's work.