Now in our 17th year. The two principals of weavemaker.com, a division of Designer Software LLC, have been writing software and managing computing organizations for 70 years. We create software and systems that are complex on the inside, simple and direct on the outside.

Our Specialties include:

• Software development.
  Software for Windows and Macintosh, with special emphasis on textile design.
• Database.
  Written to your specifications, or analysis done to meet your requirements.
• Web, CD-ROM multimedia.
  Supporting sales and marketing.
• Digital Still photography and Video.We often combine photography and video work with software that manipulates the images, e. g. creating databases of products for presentation online.
• Digital Imaging.
  Including custom lighting, mechanical, and electrical engineering. We offer linear and XY camera positioning systems, for manual or automated computer control.
• Training and technical support.
  Hardware and software.

The People of Designer Software:

William J. Jones is co-founder, past President (1991- 1997), and currently Chairman of the Board of Designer Software. He holds both Master's (Syracuse University) and Bachelor's (Utica College) degrees in Mathematics. His first full time employer was GE, where in the late 1950's he created one of the first operating systems ever, for accelerating the processing of missile test data for ICBM guidance systems. That work is chronicled in the Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 11, Number 2, 1989. He was Director of Academic Computing at Syracuse University for 13 years and a faculty member for six years.

At Designer Software, Bill writes the pattern generators found in WeaveMaker, PreVIEW, and Surface Magic.

Bill enjoys a variety of intellectual exercises aside from those that arise in making software that creates. He plays bridge and chess, and likes to solve and compose cryptic crosswords. He bowls and is an enthusiastic Disc Golf player (not the other kind of golf).

Dana E. Cartwright joined Designer Software in 1992 as Vice President for Development. He is currently President. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Syracuse University) and a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Earlham College). He wrote his first software application in 1968 (doubling the throughput of the card reader for an IBM 1130 computer).

Dana is the chief software architect of Designer Software, having designed and written WeaveMaker, Surface Magic, TieMaker, MillSpec, Match, and PreVIEW. He is also responsible for developing the cross-platform engine which enables all DSI software products to run on all Macintosh, Windows 95, and Windows NT computers.

Dana is also a skilled electrical and mechanical engineer, metal fabricator, and woodworker, being at home etching circuit boards or MIG welding aluminum. His recent work includes design and fabrication of a motorized camera crane that moves, placing digital cameras under computer control.

When he isn't writing software, he restores player pianos and pipe organs, old cars (MG's), and races (currently, go-karts at Oswego Speedway).