Company Information


Initial History

Formed in 1999, The Richard Group is owned and operated by David and Joel Richard. With each having 15 years of experience working with various Internet and desktop technologies, we have developed not only a technical expertise, but also a method of development that enhances the communication process and creates an environment of efficiency.

Company Today

We are located in Tyson’s Corner, VA, convenient to many locations in Washington, DC. Currently, we employ ten people whose expertise span many aspects of our industry. Our Client Services team works closely with our customers to fully understand their respective businesses and to design innovative ways to incorporate Internet technologies into their day-to-day operations. Our Software and Hosting team develops and maintains our Web Development Platform as well as drives much of our custom software engineering.

Technical Approach

We have developed methods and techniques which ensure a smooth development process and produces a stable, robust web site product. This, along with our Web Development Platform, provides us an advantage not seen in normal software development environments. The development platform provides a starting point so that our projects require less overall development, which in turn minimizes the problems that can occur. Less code means less time and less bugs that can stretch out deployment of the final product.

Hosting Capabilities

While we often describe ourselves as software developers, our overall capabilities extend well beyond that. Because we have worked with a variety of different types of clients - from the larger multi-site businesses to smaller companies moving through the startup process - we offer a complete package that includes the web site and email hosting needed by many clients.

We host our clients in a fully redundant and secure environment that can be scaled as the needs of a web site grow. We are able to rapidly deploy any additional resources as needed, and to utilize various caching technologies to ensure rapid page loading response. We also offer email hosting with industry leading spam filtering included in the basic package.

All of our sites are backed up nightly and we provide daily snapshots of web site files. We also provide a staging environment for our clients, so that development can be performed separately from the live web site. All sites include an automatic testing system that performs top level testing designed to catch any inadvertent errors. Finally, we employ Google Analytics to help you understand how people are using your site and what marketing efforts are meeting your goals.