The Business / About the Owner
Where We Came From, Who We Are
Truecast Design Studio, formerly called Pedee Design Studios, was started in 2001 offering Internet web design and development services. We have grown in a short time to offer advanced database and programming services to our clients. We are here to make your dreams come true without charging you an arm and a leg. Maybe just an arm.
What’s in a Name
The meaning of Truecast Design Studio is to truly and honestly cast your experience for the world to see. We give you the ability to create a witness of who you are and what you have to offer the world. You and your business are important and have a valuable role to play. Truecast is here to help you do that with our Internet design skills.
Our Philosophy
We take pride in our work. We want you to be successful in your endeavors by building the tools you need. We allow you to control what features your site has while offering you professional recommendations that will allow your project to succeed.
What We Focus On
We focus on doing custom web programming and development for small business. We also like to do ecommerce database programming to create shopping carts, product displays, and customer interactions. With so many designers here in Portland, we focus on the scripting and programming side of websites. Although it’s important to us to create great looking websites as well.
Commitment to the Environment
Power — Trucast is committed to being a responsible business and citizen with regard to the environment. We use 100% green power to run our business through the Renewable Power Program from Portland General Electric. We believe that being part of the growing green power community allows for sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Recycling — We believe it’s vitally important to be committed to reducing, reusing, and recycling any products that we use in our business. Truecast produces less than 1 pound of waste a week and recycles all paper, metal, and plastics that can be recycled. We use almost no paper in the running of the business. We use electronic note taking, billing, and transmission of files to eliminate natural resource usage.
Folding@home™
Over a million CPUs throughout the world have participated in this distributed computing project since 2000. This project’s goal is to research protein folding and misfolding to get an understanding of how these are related to disease.
Some of the diseases include Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and many forms of cancer. Truecast’s participation is helping to speed the understanding of these and other diseases.
For more information, please visit Stanford University’s Folding@home™ website.
Our services include website design, web development, custom web programming, web hosting, updates and maintenance, and custom site management software.