About Chepri Interactive : Chepri.com

We believe in small businesses and are individuals who provide our customers with the best possible service, products and overall experience. We implement best web design practices to make your company's web exposure profitable. While we serve clients throughout the world, we also like to offer our services to those businesses operating throughout central Ohio, giving them a name and face to associate taking their businesses to the next level.

Chepri Interactive represents a mission to provide high quality design and development services specifically for small business and start-ups, with rapid results. Our team is comprised of people who enjoy both an artistic and imaginative flair for design, as well as a solid grounding in the engineering and marketing practices that make functional, high-powered websites happen. Our group includes successful local publishers, recognized authors and graphic designers, seasoned business administration professionals and accomplished code developers with experience in all manner of content, development and database management systems for the web.

We pride ourselves on giving you first-class attention to you and your needs as businesses move from the classic brick-and-mortar storefronts to the virtual global marketing of competition with the rest of the world via the Internet. Where other sites and companies offer off-the-rack solutions to your business' website requirements, Chepri steps in to provide matured open-source products, customizing your website to suit you and your target audience. Contact us to get started.

About Our Historic Location:

We're pretty proud of our new offices, which we just moved to in November 2009. Located at 731 E. Broad St., at the corner of Broad and Parsons, with a view straight down into Downtown Columbus, Ohio.

It's known as the W.H. Jones Mansion, and since October 1978 has been in the National Register of Historic Homes. Built in 1889 by William H. Jones, a prominent wholesale dry-goods businessman, the house is primarily brick, ironworks and oak interiors. A few bits of trivia about the building include:

When it was commissioned in 1889, the land the house was built upon cost $11,250. In today's terms, that would be the equivalent of paying roughly $337,500 for the same 1-acre property.
W.H. Jones was half of the Jones-Witter Company, which operated as late as 1966 before finally closing.
The house has been a featured site for many years with Decorators Show House, Parade of Homes, and other historic Columbus events.
Much of the stained glass, brick and iron work of the house is the original work of the house from the Victorian era. Most of the work was provided by German and Irish craftsmen from the German Village/Brewery District of Columbus just a few blocks away.
To the eastern wing of the house is a separate, isolated room that was originally built with its own access to the street apart from the rest of the house. While records are inconclusive, it appears to have functioned as a home office for Mr. Jones where he could have clients arrive and depart without going through the main house.

Today, the building is re-purposed into three floors of office space for various businesses (including, of course, Chepri Interactive). We love having clients come to the site, seeing the wide sweep of the front porch, the grand front entrance, the rear courtyard area (now converted partially to parking spaces), and all the fine examples of Old World craftsmanship that still make up most of the house in its grandeur. While we *are* a working office, we nonetheless welcome any clients who would like a small tour of the property (when opportunity permits) to contact us.

So What or Who is Chepri Anyway? In Egyptian mythology, Chepri (pronouced "Keh-pree") is the name of a major god. Chepri is associated with the Egyptian scarab (kheper), whose actions represent the force that moves the sun. Chepri came to be considered as an embodiment of the sun itself, and was a solar deity. To explain where the sun goes at night, such pushing was extended to the underworld, Chepri's moving of the sun being unwavering. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chepri was often represented as a gracefully-built man with a scarab beetle for a head, using his sceptre to orchestrate every sunrise. Because the sun and all its related deities were considered part of the creation of the world, Chepri himself was considered one of the major gods related to the very beginning of the universe.