About CMEwebsites

Computers Made Easy, Inc. was established in 1999 by Jane Yeager Noel.  Originally, as our name suggests, CME provided computer support and software training as well as website development.  As the demand for our web services grew, we devoted more and more of CME's resources to website technology, including the purchase of a small hosting company (Giraffe Digital Solutions, Inc.), which has enabled us to provide our own hosting, email, web statistics, and domain name services.

For years now, CME has been devoted to full-time web development.  We have designed and host over 175 websites, control over 500 domain names, and provide maintenance services for many sites that are not our own.
 
Many of our web clients are local to the Pittsburgh region and our home base in Westmoreland County, but CMEwebsites has clients in Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Highland City, Florida, and throughout southwestern Pennsylvania. Web design requires good communication, but today contact is easily maintained by phone, email, Skype, and a variety of electronic means.

Projects Big, Small, and Unique

CME has developed projects as big as a secure Intranet for the offices of the two largest coal-fired power plants east of the Mississippi, as small as an informational site for a local forestry service, and as unique as websites for Carnegie Museum's Powdermill Avian Research Center and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Biological Research.

CME in the Community

CME is devoted to the local community.  Our own InWestmoreland.com is a directory of businesses, services, and events for Westmoreland County, PA.  Our designs include websites for the local Arts and Heritage Festival, Westmoreland Fair, Westmoreland County Agricultural Land Preservation, Leadership Westmoreland, Hempfield Township, Edgewood Borough, and more.

We are proud members of the Greensburg Business and Professional Women's Association, InWestmoreland Networkers, Norwin Chamber of Commerce, Westmoreland Chamber of Commerce, and Westmoreland Business Referral Association.

Our History

During the summer of 1999, Jane Yeager Noel left her position as a Project Manager for DreamForge Intertainment, a computer game developer, to start her own business as a computer trainer, consultant, and web developer.

In June of 2001, Computers Made Easy grew by one employee.  Jane's husband Scot was persuaded to leave his position as a Project Manager of computer games to join his wife at Computers Made Easy. Scot brings computer knowledge, management expertise, and writing skills to the table. He has led multi-million dollar projects both as Director of Operations and Planning at Westmoreland County Transit Authority and for DreamForge Intertainment as Project Manager. While at DreamForge, two of games under his management (Anvil of Dawn and Sanitarium) were honored by the industry as Games of the year. He is an award-winning writer who was honored in 1990 as one of the Writers of the Future.

After developing CME's first website. a resource boasting a wide variety of hints, tips, and links to useful locations, Computers Made Easy went on to develop websites for a number of local companies.

In 2002, Scot and Jane developed InWestmoreland.com, a directory of Westmoreland County businesses, services, and events designed to help Westmoreland County consumers find local businesses and services online.  With over 1,000 pages, InWestmoreland lists hundreds of businesses and services, a community calendar, local links, Great Places articles, and more.  Between 50,000 and 60,000 online pages are viewed each month on InWestmoreland.com

Soon, referrals from word-of-mouth brought in more website work than could be handled as part of CME's offerings, and the decision was made to devote the company full time to web development and related services, such as search engine optimization, hosting, email, web statistics, search engine marketing, and more.

As our reputation grew and the demand for high-quality web work took over the company, another decision was made: not to grow CMEwebsites into a regional agency.  A deliberate decision was made to keep the company small, a boutique web developer with a powerful offering in its custom crafted websites, obsessive customer support, and high-end hosting services.

As Computers Made Easy continues to grow, we make sure the needs of each customer are satisfied and that every effort is made to contribute to your success.

Jane Noel's Biography

Jane Yeager Noel, the co-owner of Computers Made Easy has been working professionally with computers since 1987.

She started as a traditional layout artist, graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Point Park College. She got into computers as an Art Director and Project Manager for DreamForge Intertainment, one of the first computer game development companies.  Jane has credits on twenty different game titles. During her 10 years at DreamForge, she gained a wide variety of technical, training, and communication skills while working to grow the company and to develop entertainment software in cooperation with such well-known publishing houses as Disney Interactive.
 
Jane brings her years of experience in computer art development and interface design to the creation of graphically pleasing and easy-to-use websites.

In the early years of Computers Made Easy, Jane enjoyed teaching all aspects of the computer to all sorts of people. "I enjoy working with beginners because you can actually see it in their eyes when they understand you," Jane says. "But it's also enjoyable to work with advanced users to solve problems and answer challenging questions."

In addition to her work at Computers Made Easy, Jane has taught at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and at the Community College of Allegheny County for the Lifelong Learning, Professional Development, and Workforce Training Departments. She is certified as a Microsoft Office User Specialist Expert in Word, Excel, and Power Point.

Scot Noel's Biography

Scot M. Noel brings computer knowledge, management expertise, and writing skills to Computers Made Easy. Scot has enjoyed working with computers since the days of the Commodore 64 home computer.

Professionally, Scot has led multi-million dollar projects both as Director of Operations and Planning at Westmoreland Transit and for DreamForge Intertainment--a computer game developer-- as Project Manager. While at DreamForge, two of his games (Anvil of Dawn and Sanitarium) were honored by the industry as Games of the Year.
 
Scot is an award-winning writer who was honored in 1990 as one of the Writers of the Future and who continues to publish fiction. Scot's teaching experience includes software instruction in Professional Development courses at all four campuses of the Community College of Allegheny County. Together with his wife, Jane, he now enjoys helping businesses succeed with effective website designs.

 These days, Scot has leveraged his decades of writing experience into mastering the field of Search Engine Optimization and the art of content writing for websites.  He spends most of his time in research, analysis, and preparing search engine optimized text for upcoming projects.