FirePig Partners, LLC is an independent web consultancy firm based in Maryland founded by people who care a little too deeply about creating standards-based, accessible web solutions. We left long careers building these kinds of solutions at a prominent behavioral and social science research firm to take our strongly held beliefs and philosophies on web design and put them into practice in our own firm.

So, what are these beliefs we're touting? That the most important activity we engage in isn't typing - it's listening to our clients. It's figuring out exactly what they need, even when (especially when!) they aren't quite sure themselves. Once we've done that, the fancy typing is easy.

No, we don't sell barbecue. We don't advocate an all-pork diet. What we do advocate are easy to use, breath-taking web solutions.

So what's the deal with the name?

We formed our company during the year of the Fire Pig. In Chinese astrology, "Fire Pig" years have powerful, dynamic effects that transform everything. We feel that a well-designed, accessible web presence can have the same sort of powerful effect on your organization.

See? Nothing about animals at all. Please tell PETA to stop calling us.

We take an abnormal delight in crafting custom web solutions for our clients. We build:

• Content-managed websites
• Data collection systems
• Custom reporting tools
• E-commerce solutions
• Data extract and analysis routines

We build these systems primarily using Microsoft technologies such as .NET and SQL Server. If you have a problem that can be solved in a web browser, we can help you. If you think it can't be done in a browser, please give us a chance to prove you wrong.

Got a question? A comment? A compulsion to send messages to strangers? We'd love to hear from you!

andrew@firepigpartners.com (The one that does the coding)

Karen@firepigPartners.com (The one that makes sure the other one does the coding)