#+TITLE: Functional, Efficient, Affordable
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#+KEYWORDS: LWS, about, creating websites
#+DESCRIPTION: about Lean Web Solutions

*:max-width=60ex Simple and sophisticated web pages

** Website Builder for simple web pages
For simple websites we recommend using [[http://builder.leanws.com][Website Builder]].
The [[http://builder.leanws.com][Website Builder]] transforms
simple text source (similar to [[files/<<thisPageName>>.txt][this one]]) to HTML every time you update it.
As a result, updating web pages and adding new ones is easy.

You can even get a [[index][website for free]] using [[http://builder.leanws.com][our website builder]]
if you are o.k. with [[http://howto.leanws.com/free][free design themes]]. 

** Traditional HTML for non-standard web pages
For web pages that cannot be generated from plain text, we create HTML, CSS, and JS code manually.
We provide [[http://howto.leanws.com/stat][visitor statistics]] for websites
[[http://info.leanws.com/hosting][hosted on our servers]].

*:max-width=60ex Efficiency
A typical web page requires downloading of 1 megabyte of data. This is usually 5-10 times more than necessary and leads to an inefficient use of computer hardware resources
(internet bandwidth, memory, etc).

As a result, many websites' load time exceeds five seconds. This is proven to be annoying for visitors. We avoid using unnecessary frameworks and fonts.
This reduces website download time and allows us keeping [[https://leanws.com//plans][prices]] low.

* From the Founder
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After receiving my Ph.D. in [[http://chalaev.com/physics][Theoretical Physics]], for over a decade I was doing research and scientific programming.  Since 2017, I have focused exclusively on
programming.  Often I feel upset about the things around me that are not perfect, and I ask myself "Why can't this be done in a better~way?"

My typical questions about  websites are "Why is this website taking so long to load?",
"Why do they have such a long email address @[[https://gmail.com][gmail.com]] instead of using their own domain name?",
"Why do I have to call them in order to make a payment or schedule an appointment?".

I have founded "Lean Web Solutions" to respond to these questions by creating efficient websites and improving existing ones.

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With kind regards,\\
Oleg Shalaev
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