
Did you know that there are a variety of different types of online ads? And, that they can be extremely effective when done correctly? In this blog post, we will...
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What Are Online Ads And How Do They Work?

Email marketing is a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes. It's a great way to reach out to customers and keep them updated on your latest products and services....
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Top 5 Email Marketing Practices for 2022

FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, January 19, 2022 – Atilus, a full-service digital agency in Fort Myers, is celebrating the launch of the Haitian Realtors website. HaitianRealtors.com is the first website dedicated...
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Atilus Launches First-Ever Website Dedicated to Resources for Haitian Real Estate Professionals

We want to give an update on Atilus in the COVID-19 health crisis for all our valued clients. We hope you are doing well and staying healthy and safe. Our...
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COVID-19 Update From Atilus

This past weekend, I attended WordCamp 2019 in Miami. WordCamp is a conference covering everything related to WordPress and is a 3-day conference. There are multiple events like this one...
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The Future of WordPress

Isn’t it hard to believe that social media has only been around since 1997? With extremely high users on Facebook and Instagram nowadays, it seems like if you aren’t on...
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Social Media by the Numbers

With technology at our fingertips nowadays it is extremely important to translate your website to be mobile friendly. With that being said, I will dive into the differences of and...
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Responsive vs. Adaptive Web Design

When it comes to building a website, it seems like almost anyone can make their own these days with online website building tools like WIX. But what some people don’t...
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What makes a good website?

When it comes to social media advertising, LinkedIn is one of the leading B2B paid advertising platforms out there. Throughout this post I will break down two types of InMail...
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LinkedIn InMail Advertising

The following post is courtesy of TeamLogic IT, and IT services provider in Fort Myers, FL. President of TeamLogic IT. Bob Roloff, shares his thoughts on ransomware and what you need...
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How to Protect Your Business from Ransomware Attacks

Southeast Building Conference 2017 - Join us on July 27th and 28th for the Southeast Building Conference (SEBC) in Kissimmee, Florida. The 2017 Southeast Building Conference is one of the...
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2017 Southeast Building Conference

TOP COMPONENTS TO SUCCESSFUL POPUP DESIGN Marketing copy - Show personality, spur action, and create need/urgency Imagery - Visually grab attention, showcase products or services Branding - Match the pop...
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Successful Use of Popups

Many people have heard of do it yourself (DIY) nightmares concerning homes, but many people don’t realize that websites often suffer the same nightmares. Below are some of the issues...
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DIY Nightmares of Web Design

At Atilus we’re always trying to make things simpler for our clients, improve our own services, and of course help you grow your business online. In a quest for this...
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Atilus: We’ve Upgraded Your Domain

Very soon Atilus will be upgrading one of its hosting environments to PHP 7! PHP 7 has been released for quite some time, however, we decided to hold off on...
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PHP 7: A WordPress Upgrade

It's crazy to think that Christmas is only two days away. Where does all the time go? During the holidays it's a perfect time for businesses of all sizes to...
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Four Holiday Branding Tips

New Year, healthier you. Every year individuals and businesses alike take the time to think about the new year that's approaching and make resolutions that will set them or their...
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Construction Marketing: Grow Your Reach & User Engagement

In the online world, everything is protected by a password. Email, Amazon login, your online bank account, and the list goes on. Your password is how you keep your accounts...
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What Makes a Good Password?

Do You Need An Instagram? When it comes to Instagram social media marketing, Instagram is the relatively new guy on campus (launched in October 2010). The photo sharing application has...
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Instagram Social Media Marketing | Do You Need An Instagram?

What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security protocol used for transmitting information securely over a network. SSL encrypts the data being sent over the network that uses...
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Learn All About SSL & If You Should Be Using SSL

It started with land and a grand plan...the best is yet to come FGCU at 20 Project Overview: Atilus is excited to announce the launch of FGCU at 20, a...
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Atilus Launches the FGCU 20th Anniversary Website

Collier Lee Real Estate Website Overview We are excited to announce the launch of Collier Lee Real Estate, a local real estate firm in Southwest Florida. The Collier Lee Real...
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Atilus Launches Collier Lee Real Estate Website for Golden Realty & Management

Exciting Upgrades to Our Domain Management Service Are you an Atilus customer that is currently enrolled in our domain name management service? If so, then this message is for you!...
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Exciting Upgrades to Our Domain Management Service

Bonita Springs, Florida: Atilus launches the Bonita Springs Estero Economic Development Website. Atilus is excited to announce the launch of a new website for the Bonita Springs Estero Economic Development...
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Atilus Launches the Bonita Springs Estero Economic Development Council Website

Your Island Guide: Discover THE BEST of everything from Sanibel to Captiva, Florida with On Island. Atilus is excited to announce the launch of a new website for On Island...
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Atilus Launches A New Website For On Island in Sanibel, Florida

Atilus is excited to announce the launch of a new website for Joe Pavich, Jr., a Naples luxury real estate expert. Atilus has just launched a new website for Joe...
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Atilus Launches a New Website for Joe Pavich, Jr.

Atilus is excited to announce the launch of a new website for Golf Real Estate SWFL - Realtor and Owner, David Steele, a local Southwest Florida realtor and golf professional who...
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Atilus Launches Golf Real Estate SWFL Website

Atilus is excited to announce the launch of Ortho Naples - A Naples Orthopedic Specialist. We are excited to announce the launch of a new website for Ortho Naples, a...
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Atilus Launches Ortho Naples

Atilus is excited to announce the launch of the new Forensic Construction Consulting Website - A Florida Firm that provides Florida building owners and their legal counsel with critical support...
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Atilus Launches Forensic Construction Consulting Website

Atilus Announces the Launch of the YP Portal - Southwest Florida's first ever young professional portal with helpful information dedicated solely to business professionals under 40. It has been an absolute pleasure...
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Atilus Launches a New YP Portal that Targets Southwest Florida Young Professionals

We’re excited to announce the newly launched website for Gold Gerstein Group’s Business Consulting Division! Gold Gerstein Group's Business Consulting Division provides business advisory services that will help get your...
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Atilus Launches Website For Gold Gerstein Group – Business Consulting Division

Have you ever came across a website that just made you laugh uncontrollably, not because of how funny the website was, but because of how poorly designed it was? There...
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Your Marketing Needs A Better Designed Website: Think Like the User

We're excited to announce the newly launched website for Florida Advertising Services! Florida Advertising Services of Southwest Florida is a family owned business that strives to be the best at...
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Atilus Launches Website For Florida Advertising Services

We're excited to announce the launch of a new website for Community Cooperative! Community Cooperative in Fort Myers was looking to eliminate hunger and homelessness in Lee County, while simultaneously...
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Atilus Launches Website For Community Cooperative

I'll let you in on a little secret about me, I'm addicted to old, historic homes. If I could I'd purchase every condemned home and restore that home back to...
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Tips for Choosing the Right Web Development Company

You might be surprised by how many businesses we work with that are sustained solely by their members. Over time, they've built a following, and a correspondingly great website - in order...
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Tips for Building a Membership Driven Website

Did You Know Naples, Florida Was Ranked the Happiest Town? Miles of white sandy beaches, unlimited rays of sunshine, cool ocean breezes, and clear blue waters is the definition of...
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Naples-Florida: The Happiest Town in the Country

Everything Builders & Development Companies Should Know about Web Design and Internet Marketing In 10 years a LOT has changed in our business. Smart phones are now the #1 way...
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Builder Website Design

We’re excited to announce another website launch for Empowered Global! Empowered Global provides residential and commercial electrical service work in Bonita Springs, Estero, Naples, and Fort Myers. Susi and Daniel...
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Atilus Launches Website for Empowered Global

As many of you already know, I recently joined the sales team here at Atilus (March 2015) – yes, I keep track. I’ll tell you first hand that I was...
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3 Professional Selling Tips for Beginners

The Atilus team is proud to announce the newly designed website for the Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament in Knoxville, TN! The Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament is a philanthropic...
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Atilus Launches New Website for Boxing Weekend in Tennessee

You are an expert in your field and focused on your passion, and you need to feel confident that you are choosing the right tools for your team to be...
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Email Hosting – How to Select the Right Provider and Type of Email

Atilus Tasked with National Internet Marketing Strategy for the Naples, Marco and Everglades Convention & Visitors Bureau Bonita Springs, FL (January 26, 2016) Atilus, a digital agency specializing in web...
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ATILUS NAMED DIGITAL AGENCY FOR THE PARADISE COAST

Atilus Implements Solutions for Local Real Estate Development Company Bonita Springs, FL (January 14, 2016) Atilus a digital agency specializing in web design and internet marketing, has been named digital...
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KITSON & PARTNERS NAMES ATILUS DIGITAL AGENCY PARTNER

Fresh off the heels of our other Orchard Module release, the Orchard MailChimp Module, we're releasing another module centered on email newsletter management - the Atilus Orchard Constant Contact Module....
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Orchard Constant Contact Module

A while back we were tasked with a combination of things: Develop a new large-scale site complete with CMS Transitioning an existing client with a major online presence to something that...
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Mailchimp Orchard Module

At Atilus we realize that great web design and development is a balance of many disciplines and the web is a unique place where – what I do as a...
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How to Optimize Orchard CMS for Microsoft Azure

Is Your Construction Firm Made for Mobile? Southwest Florida Builders need to plan ahead to meet their audience in the moment - they need to adjust to the new phrase...
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Construction Marketing Ideas for Southwest Florida Builders
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Join Atilus for Google Partners Connect 2015. This year Google's Marketing and Advertising specialists will be teaching businesses on how to grow their business online. The event takes place on...
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[Atilus] Google Partners Connect 2015

About once or twice a month I get asked to give a ballpark estimation for a project cost and timeframe, typically for a general business website or a web application...
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Why Website Cost Estimates Are Always Off

[caption id="attachment_6903" align="aligncenter" width="300"] CBIA Naples 2015 Golf Tournament[/caption] The Collier Building Industry Association is a not-for-profit professional association of dedicated industry professionals who are inspired to make a...
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CBIA Naples Golf Tournament | Grey Oaks Naples 2015

We are very excited to announce our new client relationship with Florida Stair Works. Over the last couple months we've been working hard to redesign and optimize their nation-wide stair...
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Welcome to All Stair & Florida Stair Works

I recently attended the 2015 Real Estate Industry Panel hosted by the Collier Building Industry Association on Wednesday, May 27th at the Naples Hilton. The speakers were reputable Southwest Florida...
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Collier Building Industry Association – 2015 Real Estate Industry Panel

Construction Marketing Ideas for your Business Atilus started our firm amid the boom of construction that happened in South Florida. Between construction, financial planners, real estate and attorneys - we...
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Construction Marketing How to Turn Your Blog into Leads

As the lead developer at Atilus I get asked to use all kinds of tools, and have built and used an array of tools to build a site, provide functionality,...
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WordPress Vs. Custom Content Management System (CMS)

We need speed. Speed's what we need. Greasy, fast speed! And we don't need to go chasing chickens to get it either. In this post I highlight some of my...
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ASP.NET MVC 4.5 Benefits

Overcoming Your Fear of Business Networking Groups Business networking for some individuals can be difficult, intimidating, or a love-hate relationship (for me it's all of the above). Establishing connections with...
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Business Networking Tips for Introverts

As a service organization we often ask ourselves how can we better manage service quality. The following are our ideas on bettering negotiating client and customer service relations in a...
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Managing Service Quality – It’s About Expectations

For me the holidays are a time for reflection and for expressing gratitude. We've already started doing that with our blog series for our partners, and it's just as important to...
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Happy Holidays

Community Web Award Sponsored by Atilus, Southwest Florida Community Foundation and Board Management We’re proud to introduce the Community Web Award Grant finalist – a joint effort by the Southwest...
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Community Web Award – Southwest Florida Grant Winner

We are very excited to announce the new website launch for Farm City BBQ! We've been sponsors of this event for many years and were very excited to redesign the...
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Join Us at the 2014 Farm City BBQ!

We are excited to announce the release of Board Management - a board of directors management tool. Throughout the years we've worked to design, build and market all kinds of crazy...
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Board Management – Board of Directors Software

The Beauty Within: PACE Center for Girls, Lee Recently, I came across Megan DiPiero Photography and her blog post: Love That Dress Beauty Portraits, where she showcased some of...
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Seeing The Beauty Within You | PACE Center for Girls, Lee

Perfect Attendance At PACE Center for Girls: Lee County From kindergarten through high school graduation, I tried being one of those students that never missed a day of school....
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Perfect Attendance | PACE Center for Girls

No matter the size, all organizations fundamentally need strong leadership talent to execute their strategy successfully. Volunteers have an enormous impact on the well being of communities and organizations worldwide....
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A PACE Volunteer | PACE Center for Girls, Lee

Giving a non-profit the ability to enact change at a faster rate than they currently yield, than they may think is even possible, is important to us here at Atilus. If we...
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Community Web Award | Atilus

Secondhand to a Second Chance From nearly new to gently loved, secondhand dresses were once bought to cut costs; today women have bragging rights. The secret is out, and...
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Secondhand to a Second Chance | PACE Center for Girls

Love That Dress-PACE Center for Girls Love That Dress, hosted by the Lee County PACE Center for Girls, is right around the corner. This event draws the community together, rallying...
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Finding their Voice | Lee County PACE Center for Girls

Measuring Success In An Ever-Changing World Have you ever heard of a business standing on its own for millennia or even for more than one hundred years? If a...
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Community Building Continued | The Road To Greatness-Measuring Success

Atilus, the Bonita Springs based web design and Internet marketing company is pleased to publicly announce their partnership with the PRSA Sunshine District. Here at Atilus, we recognize the importance...
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PRSA Sunshine District Annual Conference | Atilus

Southwest Florida Economic Development Alliance Atilus, the Bonita Springs-based web design and Internet marketing company has been presented with the potential to design the Southwest Florida Economic Development Alliances’ website....
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Southwest Florida Economic Development Alliance | Jobs Driven By The People

Community Building “There are colonies of clonal trees that have lived for tens of thousands of years, but there's something majestic about a single tree able to stand on its...
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Community Building | The Power of Giving Back

The PRSA Sunshine District will be holding their Annual Conference this July and we're honored to be a part of it! As a sponsor for the event, we created an...
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Visit Us At The PRSA Sunshine District Annual Conference

Back in mid-December we started accepting bitcoin. It's been an interesting journey so far. We've had a couple clients pay in bitcoin, and a ton of contacts have been made...
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Atilus Bitcoin Scholarship

Atilus has been blessed time and again with opportunities to work with many non-profit organizations around the world. One of our biggest blessings has come in the form of a...
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Possible Dreams International | A New Website Face to Represent the Many Needy Faces of Swaziland

Atilus loves each and every client. Part of that loves comes from a deep desire for challenges. Each client or project provides different challenges, making every website a completely unique...
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Public Relations Society of America – Sunshine District | Reaching Internal and External Goals with New Website

With a newborn daughter at home, I can fully appreciate the creation of a company from nothing more than an idea. They are both blank slates; fresh lumps of clay...
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Golf Membership Consultants | New Business Launches with Atilus’ Marketing and Development

Mashups and crossovers are all the rage today, though they are certainly not a new concept. Back in 1987, Hanna-Barbera figured out how to throw the Jetsons and the Flintstones...
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Business Fusion is Corporate America’s Version of the Ultimate Mashup in Entertainment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bonita Springs, FL, Atilus, a full-service web development and Internet marketing firm, has become the first ad agency in the United States and state of Florida to...
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ATILUS IS FIRST AD AGENCY IN UNITED STATES TO ACCEPT BITCOIN

The holiday season is just beginning and although I am a staunch believer on NOT decorating or listening to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving, as soon as Friday came the...
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‘Tis the Season for Giving…Even for Business Owners!

Atilus is once again proud to partner with southwest Florida sustainable design company Ensite to raise money for the 3rd annual Take Stock in Children “Strides for Education” 5k Run...
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Atilus Takes Stock in Children 2014

It's the intention of this post to communicate to you - our friends, partners, fans and clients - what's been happening at Atilus and give you a taste for what's...
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(2013) Letter From the CEO

The name Atilus – adopted and changed after a short period from the founding name "Unique ID Web Design" – was a change implemented by necessity and fate. Out of...
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Profit Redesigned | The Atilus Story

Atilus’ cofounder and CEO, Zach Katkin, has been featured in this month’s issue of Florida Gulf Coast University’s Pinnacle Magazine! Zach has been named the Alumni of Distinction for 2012...
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Katkin Featured as FGCU Alumni of Distinction in Pinnacle Magazine

As a business person in internet technology, I spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen and sitting down. There really aren’t very many alternatives to this...
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An Object at Rest Stays at Rest… and Dies at Rest

Atilus is a technology firm that specializes in web development, internet advertising, and software development. We live in the "cloud". Our team is located throughout the state and we rarely...
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Remote vs Co-Working Employee

Kristen Bachmeier, a recent graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University joins Atilus as a Marketing Intern today. Kristen is a SWFL native and received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing...
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Kristen Bachmeier Joins Atilus Team

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2012 THREE NEW BOARD MEMBERS JOIN THE LEE COUNTY COALITION FOR A DRUG-FREE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Fort Myers, FL, Kevin Lewis, CEO of Southwest Florida Addiction Services...
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Atilus Director of Marketing Among New Board Members

Last Friday after a long day and a drive from a clients' office for the launch of their new website, I received a rather strange email from a gentleman looking...
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USAJobs.gov & Atilus in Daily Caller

Fort Myers FL ( October 10, 2011) Local web design and Internet marketing company, Atilus, is celebrating its sixth year in business. Atilus provides web development and Internet marketing solutions...
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Atilus Celebrates its 6th Anniversary

Atilus is proud to announce a donation of $200.00 to Literacy Volunteers of Lee County in support of two events - Run for Reading & Cheers for Literacy. The two...
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Atilus Sponsors Run for Reading & Cheers for Literacy

Prompted by a few items I’ve decided to write an article on the cost of hosting a website. This article is in part a follow up to two articles we...
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How Much Does Hosting Cost?

Subtitle: Meditations on the cost of a website, addressing the developer community. How much does a website cost? Well… that depends. How much does a building cost? “Ballpark figure. If...
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How Much Does a Website Cost?

Unique ID Web Design, LLC is now officially Atilus, LLC. First a little background. Unique ID, now Atilus, was started in late 2005 by Harry Casimir and me while we...
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