We build web sites, desktop applications, and a few things in between that leverage the best of both environments. We also provide consulting on usability, documentation, and process optimization.

Our work is driven by a passion for the quality of the user experience, with a keen eye for return-on-investment for our clients and their customers.

We're not just developers, we're business owners too. ROI is the key to sound business investments in software. For our work to be successful it must deliver unquestionable value to your own customers, while delivering a healthy profit to you.

This ROI-centric approach helps us tailor project scope, development methods, tools selection, and feature rollout schedules to move software products forward profitably version after version. Now celebrating our 15th year in business, we've helped our clients through three recessions to enjoy the boom years in between even more. We can do the same for you.

Custom Software Development

Organizations come to us with a great idea, and we realize it for them in software. Most of these applications are often for vertical or educational markets where traditional development methods like C++ would be prohibitive. Using high-level tools like Flash, Revolution/MetaCard and FileMaker Pro, we can deliver efficient solutions for relatively modest budgets. Our experience in this area includes:

Commercial Software Products	Computer Based Training
Multimedia Presentations	Online Reference Systems
Client-Server Net Applications	Peer-to-Peer Net Applications
Porting SuperCard and HyperCard programs to Windows and even UNIX

Web Design, Development, and Hosting

We've been designing interactive media since before the web was invented. Our clients depend on that experience to assemble and coordinate teams of designers, engineers, and hosting companies to provide complete web solutions for our clients, including:

Our core capabilities employ these cross-platform tools and technologies:

Revolution Training

Fourth World's founder and CEO, Richard Gaskin, has presented at nearly every Revolution conference held to date, published articles on Revolution in magazines such as MacTech, and is the editor of revJournal, a webzine for Revolution developers.

Over the many years he's been teaching Revolution he's helped hundreds of people learn to get the most from this powerful development system.

Having trained both individuals and organizations, both in person and remotely by phone, email, and teleconference, we can help beginners get a powerful start with Revolution, and provide coaching for intermediate users to learn more about specific areas of development.

See our Case Studies page for examples of how we've used these to deliver cost-effective solutions for our clients.

If you're a business owner who wants to establish your first Web presence, or make your current site more effective, check out our "10 Questions to Ask Your Web Developer".

If you'd like to discuss how we can help your organization just drop us a note.