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Welcome to Web Corpus Christi,
Farenthold Consulting's
guide to the Internet in Corpus Christi, Last updated 03/13/96
11:56:07 PM. Be sure to check out our material on the net, including
The Corpus Christi E-Zine,
The Ultimate South Texas Weather Page,
and our Main Menu. Though
it is not our primary business, we design good web pages for clients
like Whitten Real Estate
in Port Aransas; Judge Robert C. Pate,
candidate for the 28th District Court; and Shelley's Travel Services
(a work in progress). We can do a Web page for you at an afforbable price.
Call us at (512) 882-5253 or send email to sales@blake.com.
To find out what else we do, click here.
We are in the process of a major update of Web Corpus. I had hoped
to do it all at once, but the project is getting out of hand,
so we're going to add to it in small spurts 'till we get caught
up. The Web is on FIRE in Corpus Christi with a lot of people
out pounding the pavement and selling both Internet connections
and Web pages. Right now there are around 7,000 web pages mentioning
Corpus Christi indexed on Alta Vista.
(We don't have an outside sales staff so you need to call or email
us if you are interested in our computer consulting services or
Web design. Our phone number is +1 512 882-5253. Our email address
is sales@blake.com.)
We are way behind on looking at and adding these 7,000 sites to
this list, since we can only work on it at night and when we aren't
helping paying customers. As of Monday, March 11, we've added
everyone who has sent email to webmaster@blake.com
requesting a listing and will start on the others soon. Your feedback
is always welcome. We hope you enjoy our little list and would
appreciate a link from your page if appropriate.
Read
about the The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association.
The recently passed telecommunications reform legislation had
provisions banning "indecent" material
on the Internet, using the standard in the Pacifica case
(that's George Carlin's 7 Dirty words you can't say on Television
[now the Internet too]).
Some of the best information about this and other cyber rights
can be found at The Electronic Frontier Foundation
and the Voters Telecomm Watch.
--- Blake Farenthold,
proprietor of Farenthold Consulting
What's New
This What's new section is new! As links are added they will be
listed here for around a month.
What's Hot
Aside from Our Stuff some Corpus
area sites worth checking out are Corpus Christi dot com
(an electronic yellow pages for CC), The Natural Toxins Institute
at TAMU Kingsville, and The Raven & The Sparrow Internet Cafe'
(we really like the idea of an Internet cafe). .wear@the net
appears to be the first Corpus Christi firm actually selling products
on the net. they have a nice catalog. Captain Wallace Kelley
breaks the mold of bland business pages with a photo filled layout
for his charter service. The Corpus Christi Caller Times
is getting better now that they don't load all those gifs. There's
always the brother-in-law page, Software Kinetics,
which is in fact my sister's-husband's brother's page. Citizens Bank
has a great pages that proves even a bank VP can learn to design
web pages.
Corpus Christi People
Corpus Christi Area Business
- Farenthold Consulting
(that's us.. our Index page).
- The Greater Corpus Christi Business Alliance
(that's the Chamber of Commerce & Tourist Bureau if you're
from anywhere but Corpus) including tourist and visitor information,
information on The Port of Corpus Christi,
and the Small Business Development Center
[recently updated].
- American & Foreign Hubcaps & Accessories
sells mail order custom and OEM wheelcovers via an 800 number.
- The Armchair Commanders Games & Hobbies
sells board games, computer games, and role playing games.
- Business Today
is a single page ad for a print magazine.
- Betty B's
Ingleside Fashions on the net has a storefront and Johnny Mathis
links.
- The Cantina Santa Fe,
a pretty cool drinkin spot with their music schedule and menu
online.
- The Corpus Christi Caller Times
(our local daily paper) has an electronic edition that is graphic
intense. Some of the updated daily. Their best feature allows
you to do full text searches on back issues of the paper
. Too bad they don't
tell you how complete the database is (a search on "Farenthold"
turned up this
and this,
but missed the big feature they did on personal homepages in November
'95).
- Captain Wallace Kelley
(the fishing guy on channel 6 news) has a home page for his fishing
business with some cool fishing photos.
- Citizens Bank
does a good corporate image page including Corpus Christi links
and lots of info about the bank.
- Corpus Christi dot com
is a Corpus Christi Electronic yellow pages, restaurant guide
and more. There is a lot of good stuff. Too bad they compete with
us for web design (buy a hyperlink listing from them and have
us do your web page :-)
- CC Internet Mall
(Would someone tell these carpetbaggers that Corpus is on the
South side of the bay!)
- Da Hut
was one of the first Corpus Christi Businesses on the net, but
has one of the dullest presentations we've seen. Buy a color monitor
guys!
- Fax Access
from junk Faxes to the Internet.
- Half Price Books
and Cafe Calypso
(their in store coffee bar) both have a single page storefront.
- I Wear Tee Shirts
sells Internet related T-shirts online.
- Medical Homepatient Equiptment
has information on Lymphedema on their storefront.
- On-Line International
is promoting jobs, real estate and other business information.
- Pagan Lewis Motors.
- Pepe's Mexican Food Resteraunt
has their menu on-line.
- Psytep Corporation scares
me.. lotsa spy stuff and corperate intelligence stuff. If I say
anything bad about them, I'm afraid I may find transcripts of
our 1-900 calls posted somewhere.
- The Raven & The Sparrow Internet Cafe'
has a graphics rich site with some Java animation. They also have
another page Here.
- Routh & Associates
is loss prevention consulting firm with a short blip on the net,
their logo, however, didn't scan well.
- 6 West & Associates
is a marketing/ad agency run in part by an old buddy of Blake's.
Too bad they compete with Farenthold Consulting for Web design!
- Shelley's Travel Service
has a page with lowest air fares from Corpus Christi
updated weekly.
- Shitrs & More
has a simple page selling custom shirts, a computer T and an Interconnect
(local ISP) shirt.
- Software Kinetics
is my brother-in-law's software company.
- Spectrum Properties Real Estate and Investments
has a few commercial properties listed online.
- TRAC (Travel Automation Consulting)
is a consulting firm for travel agents.
- .wear@the net
Sells Internet shirts & mugs. Nice catalog, cool products,
but no forms based ordering.
- Whitten Real Estate
in Port A has some condo and Single family listings. A Farenthold
consulting client worth visiting if you wanna start livin' on
island time.
- Winward Properties,
a real estate firm has an on-line business card up, but no links.
I suspect they are working on on-line listings which will be cool.
Imagine browsing properties all over the world from the Internet.
I want the MLS contract to move that book to the web!
- Internet Service Providers
- Web Design
- Computer Sales & Service
- Churches of Christ in Corpus Christi.
- Sheriff's candidate Sam Granato
also has a page.
- The La Belle Project
is a cool site with updates on salving the wreck of the La Belle,
believed to be one of La Salle's ships. Much of the work on this
project is being done at the Corpus Christi Museum of Natural
History.
- Judicial candidate Robert Pate (rpate@blake.com)
also has a campaign homepage.
- Corpus Christi Advertising Federation.
- Corpus Christi Radio & TV Listings
is a list (nothing more) of radio and television Stations compiled
from a statwide list.
- It's amazing some of the things a search of the net will turn
up. Take for example Will Christopher Baer's short story Corpus Christi
published in The Next Savage State,
the enhanced, electronic version of The New Censorship.
- Another offbeat find is he lyrics and chords of Corpus Christi Bay
a song about life as a oil field worker in Corpus by Robert Earl
Keen Jr. who has fan pages here,
here,
and here.
- The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
has a Fishing Report
that covers Coastal Bend Waters, a list of State Parks in the area,
Hunting seasons for Nueces County,
and the CGCCA/CPL Marine development Center.
You can also Search their Web Site
for Links about Corpus Christi[New]
- The Texas Department of Commerce
has a Corpus Christi Community Profile
- Texas Department of Transportation
has info on Corpus in Tourtex 2000, Corpus Christi
- The Texas Department of Commerce and Texas Department of Transportation,
together with a "Infobahn, The Internet agency" have
created TravelTex that has
a ton of tourist info on Corpus,
Port Aransas,
Rockport-Fulton,
Aransas Pass,
Portland,
Sinton, Taft,
MathisKingsville,
Refugio, Beeville,
Goliad, and
just about every other city in Texas.
- Historic rainfall Corpus
or Other Texas Cities
derived from The National Climatic Data Center is maintained by
the Texas USGS.
- Information about auto racing course nationwide features the
Cabaniss Home Page.
- The American Recovery Association Inc.
(a trade group of repo men) has Web information on Universal Investigators
in Corpus.
- There are also web sites down south worth checking out in
The Rio Grande Valley
and McAllen.
Looking in from the Outside
We are constantly looking for new Corpus Christi Sites. If you
have an addition or find a dead or changed link, please email
it to webmaster@blake.com.
We will list any site that we think is reasonably associated
with Corpus Christi for free. Since we do this in our spare time
it may take a couple of days for your submission to be added,
so please be patient.
Links in bold were created by or are associated with Farenthold Consulting.
We are a consulting firm, we don't sell Internet service (though
we do dabble in web design) so we try to be fair in our editorial
comments on this page. We'll list any business or organization
on this page for free if we feel they have adequate ties to Corpus,
regardless of who they buy what from.
