Dave Paton
Design, Concept Development,Graphics, Illustration, Public Relations
(406) 431-6322sign

Dave Paton has been designing web sites since 1996. Along the way he has developed some web sites rich in database interaction and
e-commerce abilities. His start on the Internet came at the Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk-Virginia Beach, where he filled in as producer of the Internet edition, then took over the job full time in 1997. During his two years as the main PilotOnline.com news producer, it rapidly grew into one of the top 25 U.S. online newspapers.

In late 1998 a job as Falcon Publishing's online producer brought Dave to Helena. He started out developing Internet content and licensing deals with The Weather Channel, National Geographic.com, REI and others, and wound up running Falcon's entire Internet operation, from server administration to database and Web site development. After the Globe Pequot Press acquired Falcon in late 2000, Dave oversaw the unification of the Globe, Falcon and Lyons Press e-commerce catalog sites. He developed an intranet that included targeted list e-mails for Globe sales and publicity, and many other Web-based modules for accessing and utilizing database information. As someone who was there during both the Net's pie-in-the-sky years of the late 90s and the reality check of the last couple of years, Dave has developed a good radar for what will work at a site, what is needed online and what isn't. Dave graduated from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.