My name is Ogden McGahan and I started Ogdenian.com back in the days when people accessed the internet via the phone lines. I was an avid poet doing open mics when one day someone asked me if I had a book of my prose poetry. I didn’t so I created one. Then someone asked me if I had a website to sell my book. I didn’t so I learned to created one, hence Ogdenian.com was born. I sold my first copy to a person from Canada. All the while thinking, “Wow, a total stranger just purchased my book” and started thinking there is something about the internet that intrigues me. Meanwhile, a prose poetry forum I installed on my site started to take on a life of its own. All these poets communicating with each other and sharing ideas, making friends and creating prose. Others and I started messing with animation programs, the first being Macromedia Director. We then started sharing our animated prose with each other because we could publish our work to the web. One day, a CEO from out west asked me if I could do animations for his company website and offered to pay me for the service. Then broadband connections and Macromedia Flash came out, my business took off with a rush. It was a new frontier and everyone wanted to be competitive in a market where almost anything could happen. It was an exciting start of an internet business.
The internet evolved and now Adobe Flash, which replaced Macromedia Flash, is not the medium it once was due to it not being 100% cross-device compatible. Also, Adobe wanted to charge Apple to use flash on their cellular phones; a mistake in my opinion… they should have given it for free because it made Flash obsolete. So, I keep moving forward with search engine optimized responsive website design geared to make my clients successful. HTML5, WordPress, PHP, and MySQL databases is the ocean I live and breathe. The ever changing internet can be a visually exciting medium of which we can all enjoy and prosper with.
I’ve been supplying web design and graphic design services since 1998. I have been told, “Ogden McGahan has an insightful intuitive perception in regards to the reality and essential workings of search engines and the world wide web.”
Some of my past accomplishments:
- Received a Central NY Business Journal Award: “Largest Web Design Company 2020“
- Received a Central NY Business Journal Award: “Top Web-Design Company 2017“
- Received a Central NY Business Journal Award: “Top Web-Design Company 2016“
- Received a Central NY Business Journal Award: “Largest Web-Design Company 2014“
- Received a Central NY Business Journal Award: “Largest Web Design & Development Firms 2013“
- Received a Computer Graphics Service Award: “Best of Endicott 2013“
- Recognized as one of the “Top Greater Binghamton’s Web-Design & Development Firms – 2012“
- Received a SourcingLine Leaders Matyrix: “Top Web Designer Award 2012“
- Recognized as one of the “Top Greater Binghamton’s Web-Design & Development Firms – 2011“
- Received a Computer Graphics Service Award: “Best of Endicott 2010“
- Received a Computer Graphics Service Award: “Best of Endicott 2009“
- Received an “Invision Graphics: Web Award” – 2008
- Received an “American Association of Webmasters: Gold Web Award” – 2007
- Received “World Wide Web Awards: Gold Web Award” – 2006
- Prose used for a German heavy metal band “Darkside” title song “Amber” – 2006
- Received the “Webmaster of the Year Award” – 2005
- Received a “Diamond Web Award” – 2003
- Owned a restaurant in Binghamton, New York – 2001
- Published prose poetry writer – 1997
- Owned a restaurant in Merrick, Long Island – 1990
- Bachelor of Science Degree for Music Theory and Composition – 1981
- Regents Diploma – 1976
- Arista Honor Society President – 1975 & 1976
Be it my love of music, literature, art, cooking, photography or the digital realm I have always found a way to share these gifts given to me at birth. I believe that you can’t be fully happy unless you’re exploring your God-given gifts to their limits and capacities.
It would please me greatly to hear your comments and suggestions.