Agar Media, Inc. offers commercial website design services, along with ancillary products and services like web hosting, eCommerce web store design, business logo design, banner and tile ad design (for advertising your business on someone else's website), simple animation for ads and website content, consulting services, and ongoing website maintenance for our customers.

We are a husband and wife operated, home-based business located in Wellston, Ohio. Our primary customer base is local, although there have been a few remote-control projects we've handled recently. The internet is a great equalizer since it doesn't really matter where your office is located. We are anxious to expand our business as time allows.

I started doing web design work as a hobby around 1997, using the old GeoCities and Angelfire templates but I quickly graduated to Microsoft Front Page and later took a series of college classes in all the magical offerings of Macromedia web design products. Like many amateur web designers back in the day, my name quickly became known as a local "go-to" person for questions about that newfangled internet thing. We started out with a couple of small contract jobs, then graduated to some rather large projects in our first two years of officially being in the website business.

My initial training was classroom based (the Marcomedia stuff has a steep learning curve, in my humble opinion, but it provides such an awesome finished product), but the majority of my learning has been "hands-on", actually building websites for clients. Website design is a constantly evolving field of study, and I try to stay current on the latest trends, add-ons, and design software, along with the whole look and feel of what customers want in a contemporary, functional business website.

- Rick Callebs

- ABOUT US -

Richard B. "Rick" Callebs is the President of Agar Media, Inc. He is the primary web design and graphic design artist and is normally the primary contact for web design services. Rick is a full-time paramedic supervisor (Station Chief) with Athens County Emergency Medical Services at the Athens station. He has a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the University of Rio Grande, and is an Ohio certified Paramedic, Professional Firefighter and Fire Safety Inspector. Rick is also a commissioned Peace Officer with the Jackson City Police Department. Rick is a Nationally Registered Paramedic and a member of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and the International City/County Management Association. He is also an Amateur Radio Extra Class operator (FCC callsign: W8UU), a member of the Jackson County and Athens County Amateur Radio Clubs and is a Life Member of the Amateur Radio Relay League.

Ann-Marie Callebs is Vice-President and Secretary of Agar Media, Inc. She serves as the office manager, scheduling work and handling the administrative side of running a small home-based business. Ann-Marie is learning the ropes of website construction, and now maintains several of our contracted customers. She is a full-time paramedic with Athens County Emergency Medical Services in Albany. Ann-Marie is also a member of the United States Navy Reserve, serving at Eleanor, West Virginia and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a Medical Corpsman with the rank of HM2. Ann-Marie is a graduate of Hocking College, and is currently enrolled in the Nursing program at Excelsior College.

Rick and Ann-Marie along with their children Bryan and Jay attend Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Wellston.