Fix a website,make a new one:
Many first websites are set up for free. However, once you outgrow the free website, who's available to update it? Fast Smart Web Design can help. For example, Fast Smart Web Design revised the Tug Pegasus Restoration Project website.

Cast Your Vote! Keep Us Afloat!

Now Tug Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum Barge are in the running for a $250,000 voters' choice grant. American Express, partnering with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has committed $3 million in preservation grants to historic places in New York City through its community-based program, Partners in Preservation (PIP).

The Tug & Barge need your vote: 1. Click on Partners in Preservation. 2. Either log in using Facebook or create an account (a one-time activity). 3. Select Tug Pegasus & Waterfront Museum Barge. 4. VOTE.  5. Repeat the next day.

Sign up for a daily reminder and be enrolled automatically in a raffle for a July 4 Fireworks Cruise for two on the Tug Pegasus.

Support Pamela Hepburn, one of the few female tug captains, and David Sharps, a juggling showboat barge captain, and the ongoing restoration of their two vessels, both listed on the National Register.

Other PIP Favorites

You can only vote once a day, so we probably shouldn't tell you about the other Partners in Preservation nominees we like, but what the heck. Check out:

• Rossville AME Zion church, founded on December 5, 1850, at Sandy Ground on Staten Island. Sandy Ground is the oldest community established by free slaves in North America
• The Alice Austin House, Staten Island, the late 19th century, early 20th-century home of one of the first women photographers in this country to work outside a studio. Alice was also a documentary photographer, a style of photography unusual until the 20th century.
• Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Grotto, Staten Island, a historic Roman Catholic grotto designed and constructed by the local Italian American community. Work on the distinctive concrete and stone folk art structure was begun in 1937 and continues to this day.
• The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, Bronx, a gray stone mansion with Greek Revival interiors, built in 1842 and restored for the first time in 1914. As the only grand country house still in existence on Pelham Bay, it provides an important link to the social and architectural history of New York. (And Ellen Bruzelius, the executive director, is a wonderfully enthusiastic person.)
• The Staten Island Museum of Arts & Sciences, which has wonderful maps, natural history, ferry memorabilia, and other collections, as well as some of the smartest people on Staten Island working there.

Maintain your own website:
Many years ago, we started working with Naima Rauam, chronicler of the Fulton Fishmarket and Lower Manhattan, on her web presence. Naima is an artist, not a web coder, but with Adobe Contribute, a little help, and a lot of moxy, she's been updating Art in the Afternoon (fish in the morning) herself since we helped her get set up. Click here for more about this project...

We also consult:
Some customers just need help talking to their hosting sites or designers. Hey Viv! and Relational Aggression both used our consulting services. Please call us if you need help translating your business needs onto a website.

Learn before you decide: Our three workshops are designed to help you ask the right questions and make the right decisions before you hire a designer or programmer. Call (917 734-3746) or write us (info -at- fastsmartweb design.com) for dates and locations.