Internet Design & Publishing, Inc. was founded in May of 2003 as an S-Corp with the state of Missouri. From the very beginning we focused on website design, SEO, programming and web hosting. We started out with one web server, a Dell PowerEdge 1350. All of our web services ran on this single server with dual PIII processors. The server was housed in a “shared” rack and NetStandard’s data center.
The original domain name for the company was a mouthful- www.inetdesignpub.com. The domain was a shorter version of Internet Design & Publishing. We still maintain the original domain name today. Our first logo in 2003:
2000’s
2004 was a big year for Internet Design and Publishing, Inc. We upgraded our domain name to www.goidp.com on 30-MAR-04. We began calling ourselves IDP or GOIDP. Most of our customers today know us as IDP. The new domain name was a hit, everyone liked it. The shared server rack space had really been bugging us. Even though we probably could not afford it at the time, we upgraded our rack space to a private, secure, 1/3 of a rack at the NetStandard data center and bought two additional servers (Dell PowerEdge 1750’s). 1/3 of a rack is 16U of space. It was enough room for 16 1U servers or 8 2U servers. We were happy and proud. 🙂
Our client list really grew in late 2004 and 2005. In 2005, we started doing work for Zurich North America. We did some small microsite projects that saved form data into databases. The relationship grew and we began to take on more work from Zurich. In 2006, IDP built a custom CRM web application for Zurich that was used in two call centers. In Kansas City, we began working with Thoroughbred Ford on a complete web re-design and search engine marketing. We continue to host and maintain the Thoroughbred Ford web site today. A common theme when analyzing our customer base is that IDP rarely loses customers. We attribute our success to customer satisfaction, hard work, persistence, accountability, communication, responsibility, timeliness and expert knowledge in the field of web development.
Server Upgrades
From 2005-2007 IDP more than doubled server rack space and hardware. We upgraded our co-location agreement with NetStandard to a private full rack. Our hardware has been co-located in the same full rack from 2007 to today. The larger space allowed us to continue to upgrade our hardware devices and network. Over the years we have purchased 4 more servers, external SCSI tape drive backup, Cisco Gigabit Switch, Pix Firewall, Barracuda Spam Virus Firewall and numerous software applications to improve our services. As we continue to grow and provide quality, customer oriented hosting and email services, we will continue to upgrade our server space and hardware. We are committed to being the premier web design, web hosting, web application and SEO company in Kansas City.
In August of 2008 we opened our office in Lee’s Summit, Missouri while adding additional full time staff. Our location off of Chipman Road was convenient for our customers. IDP continued to grow despite a bad economy. We deliver high quality at a fair price and provide excellent customer service. In 2009 we updated our marketing plan and did some re-branding. We launched another web site design in 11/31/09. We nicknamed our previous web site IDP Orange and is below:
Old IDP Orange Website Design
2010’s
In 2014 we launched another new website re-design. The new design featured a prominent link to our IDP email system, our new tagline, home page blog news feed, prominent client portfolio slider, icons and matrix background.
goidp.com web design 3.0 with tagline
IDP has continued to evolve with the Internet. Web design companies have to stay current with technology and embrace change. The biggest change in web design from 2013-2016 is responsive web development and the popularity of WordPress. We used to develop Joomla sites and static HTML sites but have transitioned to mostly WordPress development in recent years. We still build custom PHP applications but most our business website development is done in WordPress or Magento. Responsive mobile friendly and tablet friendly web design has evolved dramatically since 2013. Every website on the Internet needs to be re-built if it was developed before 2013 because of the HTML5 coding changes and responsive web design standards.
In 2016 we moved our Lee’s Summit office to downtown Lee’s Summit at 226 SE Douglas St. The downtown area is doing really well and it has been fun to have our office located near restaurants and activities. Since 2016 we also completed a major virtualization project to virtualize all of our servers into a VMWare Cluster environment and moved our data onto a SAN hard drive server. We also switched our firewall to a SonicWall firewall and setup redundant failover SonicWall firewalls. Most web design companies have moved out of the web hosting space. IDP continues to upgrade and invest in our web hosting environment and technology.
2020’s
In 2020 we relocated the company to Kansas City. We packed up and moved everything from our office in Lee’s Summit, Missouri to Kansas City, Missouri in January of 2020. Just in time for COVID. Our new web design office is at 751 East 63rd Street in Kansas City. The office building is in East Brookside. Honk and wave to us on 63rd Street!
In 2024, we did a redesign of our branding, colors, logo and built our current website.
Web Design Customer Testimonials
Berkley Alliance Managers
Berkley Alliance Managers
Working with IDP is fantastic! We’ve developed several websites together and I appreciate how creative, resourceful and helpful they are. Their customer service is outstanding – professional, knowledgeable and friendly. The entire company is agile and responsive, helping at every turn to make issues opportunities and opportunities successes. I can’t wait to work on our next project together. I highly recommend IDP!
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
To be a client for 10 years, IDP is obviously doing business the right way. Their expertise and customer service is beyond comparison. I highly recommend them.
Southwest Risk
Southwest Risk
We worked with IDP on two insurance pool website designs. From the start, IDP’s impressive communication skills, patience, and speed have helped us meet our deadlines and bring beautiful, functional sites to our customers. They provide excellent service to everyone they deal with, which became obvious when a third party change recently affected our site. IDP reacted immediately, and the solid relationship they had in place with the third party led to a quick fix, with minimal client disruption. Now I am confident the web hosting phase will run as smoothly as development has! I highly recommend IDP to businesses in need of their service.
Doug Herriott, OD
Eyecare Associates of Lees Summit
We have use IDP for several years. We had a professionally designed website for many years with another company but found when we searched for ourselves we seldom came up on the first page in organic search. Once we switched to IDP within a few weeks we were coming up on the top of organic search in several keywords relating to our business. We have remained that way as IDP has periodically made changes in our website to keep our content current and relevant for the search engines. One of the reasons we were slow to switch was the perceived amount of it would take to redo the website. This was not the case. We had to give some basic content but IDP quickly built us a very nice and effective website. We were very pleased at how turn key the process was. Monte and his staff really do a wonderful job. I cannot say enough good things about them or how pleased we are with the product and services they provide.
Kids TLC
Kids TLC
IDP created a much more SEO and user friendly website for us nearly 5 years ago. They provide very prompt, courteous and accurate support! IDP looks for cost effective web option to help us maximize our site, when necessary.
The Auto Clinic
The Auto Clinic
IDP has become a very important piece of the marketing strategy for The Auto Clinic. IDP has given our company a strong presence on the internet. I continue to receive positive comments related our website design from our customers and associates in the Lee’s Summit business community. Also, since IDP initiated their internet search engine advertising strategies, we have found more and more of our new customers are discovering our company through internet searching. Our positioning on the internet has allowed us to put our logo in front of our new and repeat customers. I have been very satisfied with my company’s exposure for the dollars spent.
Jason Y. Lundgren Vice President
Young Management Corporation
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving!
Recreation Wholesale
Recreation Wholesale
We’ve been with Jill, Monte and the crew for roughly six years and they are awesome. We had tons of trouble with companies coming and going and our SEO just not working. Go IDP has taken all the stress out of our site and they are QUICK to respond. Can’t recommend them highly enough.
Brad Runnebaum
PlatinumOne Insurance
The entire team at Internet Design & Publishing has been fantastic to work with. I recommend them to everyone that I know.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving! Since choosing IDP to be my webhost some 7+ years ago, you have performed services which have improved my search engine results to a level I never expected possible (i.e. #1 or #2 ranking on just about every pertinent search criteria)!
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
IDP helped to turn our good website into a great one, with their redesign resulting in a web traffic increase of 600% in the first three months. The team is knowledgeable, patient, and easy to work with – taking our ideas, bringing their own, and synthesizing our best thinking into reality. Our globally-oriented site now has the level of polish that it needed, making our content come alive and attracting much greater interest and word of mouth referrals. Thanks guys!
Kari Burchett
Eyecare Associates of Osawatomie
A great job customizing our business web page, made great suggestions to improve upon our own ideas and delivered a product exactly how we wanted! Highly recommend.
Kerry McCane
After referring a couple of clients to IDP for products, I’ve finally had the opportunity to work with them directly on a complete redesign of my company’s website. They have been fantastic to work with – knowledgeable, thorough and very, very patient. They are willing and able to take on the needs of very unique businesses, companies that need much more than just a basic ecommerce presence. I look forward to continuing to work with the team as we continue to launch new products that require even more challenging integrations.
Nick A. Cutrera
Law Offices of Nick A. Cutrera, LLC
I was satisfied with my firm’s existing website when a friend recommended that I ask IDP to evaluate it. I decided that an evaluation wouldn’t hurt, and I’m glad I did. IDP transformed our website from a generic, informational site into our second biggest revenue generator, only behind client referrals. The website has been so successful in generating new business that I have been able to substantially reduce marketing dollars spent elsewhere. In addition, IDP’s fast response to requests for changes to the site is impressive. I recommend IDP to any company looking to grow its business and to better serve its existing customers.
Etap Communications
Etap Communications
We began working with IDP on a mutual client’s website redesign. They were so easy to work with and were always available to answer any questions. The process to get the new site up was seamless and the client was extremely pleased too!
Loren Shanks
Community Buying Group
Monte and Jill are great to work with. We’ve used them for several projects and have always done a great job! They do great work in a short amount of time. Our company has every intention to continue to use them in the future.
Performance Furniture
Performance Furniture
About 3 years ago we were searching for a new web design and SEO company, and when we put the word out we were looking 3 separate companies recommended IDP. In fact we had very few other recommendations. We have a unique direct sales strategy for our high end TV Furniture, TV Cabinets, and TV Consoles and IDP has helped us to market Performance Furniture locally as well as nationwide. Their approach to SEO is very straightforward where we know what is happening and can track our results. Very satisfied with IDP.
Thoroughbred Ford
Thoroughbred Ford
We have worked with Internet Design & Publishing since 2003 and they have been nothing but fantastic. Their response time to our requests is incredible. They have helped us redesign our websites, several times and every time they finish on time and on budget. They manage our internet marketing and are always on top of it. When we have asked for the impossible, they have always found a way to work it out. I am constantly impressed with their knowledge and creativity. I could not recommend another website designer more. Should anyone be looking for more information on IDP, feel free to contact us.
Kennedy Graphics
Kennedy Graphics
It was a pleasure working with IDP. They gave us a quote that was easy to understand and competetitively priced. Everything was completed on or before schedule and within budget. We made some additions/tweaks to the system during the process and to our delight they responded promptly and handled all of our concerns and helped us figure out how to accomplish our goals. Follow-up after the project has been excellent. We will certainly look to IDP for our future needs and have already recommended them to several business associates and friends.
Project One Integrated Services
Project One Integrated Services
IDP finally allowed us to have a quality website that reflects our company, message and high level of service we provide to our clients. The process went smoothly and quickly and we are thrilled with the final results. I would recommend using IDP to any company with website needs.
Brian Buffington
iResQ
I have been working with IDP since around 2010 (currently 2016) and am pleased with their work. They are fair and trustworthy. I have recommended them to several friends and colleagues and will continue to do so.
Amanda Covey
The Tub Connection
I’ve worked with IDP in the past but never as extensively, nor in as large a capacity as we have for the last 18 months. The projects we have completed have required grave attention to detail and near constant communication which I am happy to say made all the difference in the world. I recommend IDP highly, and look forward to working with them in the future!
