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Partners of the Cherokee National Forest
Healthy Sense of Self - healthysenseofself.com
The Wash Dog - thewashdog.com
Victorious Cleaning Service - vcshousecleaning.com
Sound Native Plants - soundnativeplants.com
Salmon Bay School - salmonbayschool.org
Orcas Gathering - orcasgathering.com
Advanced site: Partners of Cherokee National Forest
Partners of the Cherokee National Forest

Partners of the Cherokee National Forest's mission is to provide the public with current information about issues and resources related to the Cherokee National Forest. We are also involved in CNF projects such as the restoration of the Unicoi Historic Trail.

  • Front-page slideshow
  • News articles with a "news feed" on the front page
  • An upcoming-events calendar
  • Membership/volunteer signup form
  • Animated main menu
Wordpress Blog: Antoinetta Vogels' HealthySenseOfSelf.com
Healthy Sense of Self - healthysenseofself.com

Healthysenseofself.com, a full-featured self-help-oriented Wordpress-based website, is an ongoing project.

While the site is still primarily blog-focused, the owner's creative team is developing books, videos, presentations, seminars, merchandise, calendars of events, and more.  As they become available I will continue to add features to the website to support them.

Current and planned features include, basic blogging, feature articles w/ banner graphics, SEO optimization, event scheduling limited-access/premium content, ecommerce, mobile/tablet-friendly "responsive" theme, and because the site is being developed in both English and Dutch, multi-lingual sites with translation.

Basic Site: The Wash Dog
The Wash Dog - thewashdog.com

The Wash Dog website.  If you regularly find yourself in or near West Seattle with a dog that needs washing or grooming check out The Wash Dog at 6400 California Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98136.  Or call them at (206) 935-4546.  You can wash your dog yourself or they'll do it for you.  The owners are great, the staff clearly love animals, the store is clean and tidy, and their service is excellent and reasonably priced.  What more could you ask for?  Well, you could also ask for involvement in the community and occasional events like their 2011 Halloween party for pet owners, complete with treats (human and pet), prizes, and an excellent local portrait photographer!

They now also have a new RealBasics Basic Website with easily-uploaded photographs, a blog, self-updating sidebar areas for promotions and links, and (this is new and exciting) a "responsive web design" theme that adjusts automatically for best display on laptops, tablets, smart-phones, and other mobile devices.

 

Basic Site: Victorious Cleaning Service
Victorious Cleaning Service - vcshousecleaning.com

I've added Victorious Cleaning Service to the Basic Sites example list.  The site went live November 11, 2011.   Give me a call if you'd like a site for your own small business.

Victoria, the owner, is a sharp, hard working, organized, and very personable individual.  Based on my design, feedback, approval, and training meetings I'd say you'll get a very clean house or office if you hire her company.

If you need green cleaning done right in the Mercer Island / Bellevue / Kirkland area give them a call (253) 985-5286
victoriousclean413@gmail.com.  They offer offer One time cleaning, Party clean up, investment property cleaning, move in cleaning/ move out cleaning. They specialize in occupied family homes.

 

Site Conversion: Sound Native Plants
Sound Native Plants - soundnativeplants.com

Sound Native Plants was originally an HTML-based site created and maintained by hand using FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

  • Custom template based on orginal HTML design
  • Multiple pages
  • Embedded documents (pdfs) and images
  • Announcements (blog feature) embedded on front page
  • Web-based spreadsheet module allows price-list updates to be pasted directly into the website from Excel.
Advanced Site: Salmon Bay K-8 School
Salmon Bay School - salmonbayschool.org

Salmon Bay K-8 School: An advanced website sponsored by the parent/teacher group in the Seattle Public School system.

  • Custom templates donated by a professional designer
  • Multiple additional modules including group blog, calendar with events, "hot news" sidebar callout, mailing list module, newsletters, auction items
  • Deep menu structure, multiple pages
  • Months long collaboration between parents, volunteer coordinators, volunteer designers and programmer
  • Ongoing support
Basic Site: The Orcas Gathering at Seabeck
Orcas Gathering - orcasgathering.com

The Orcas Gathering at Seabeck is a classic RealBasics site. 

  • Off-the shelf setup
  • Downloaded theme
  • Uses Drupal's group blogging features
  • One customized block for Flickr images in the sidebar

We create economical websites that give you total control over your online marketing with a special focus on generating usable leads that are most likely to become paying customers.  While we build new websites and fix old ones so that customers can operate their sites independently, we offer optional “one-stop-shop” professional services and support to help you get the most out of your online marketing.

Fixing existing websites

In addition to building modern, high-performance, low-maintenance websites that require no technical skills to update or extend, we also turn obsolete, high-cost and difficult to maintain “static” websites into dynamic, easy-to-maintain modern websites.

Full-Featured Websites

Full-featured websites including outside graphic design consultation, custom themes, custom code development, and deep collaboration on interface design.

Examples:

Building Basic Websites

Starter websites for small businesses, academic groups, and individuals! Based on Drupal popular, modular open-source web software your site might start out small but it doesn't have to stay that way.  Even very large companies and institutions like Warner Brothers Records, Yahoo! Research,PGA Golf, and the White House use Drupal.  So can you.

Basic Website examples include

Website Updates and Repair

Does your small to medium-size website's copyright date still says 2010... or 2009... or 2006? Then what else on your site is out of date? I'll help you convert your old site to a new, easy to edit and extend Drupal website

I will also upgrade existing FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or other HTML-only websites to Drupal or Wordpress. How do you know if it's a good idea to upgrade your site to Drupal? If the copyright on your website still says 2005 or earlier then it's probably still a useful site (because you're still using it) but it's also probably too hard to update with HTML-only tools.

Drupal and Wordpress are "self-hosting" content management systems that lets you log in and change your website's content with little or no need for HTML codes. Contact me for rates.

Example:

Economical

Cost-effective, content-focused, leveraging your existing marketing materials including logos, advertising, brochures, and other promotional materials, using self-contained and user-maintainable software.

Focus on leads

The main purpose of any website has to be to encourage potential customers to contact you and to steer to avoid being contacted by people seeking services that you don’t offer.

Total Control

You get to own the site. You or your staff can easily update and extend it. Your website becomes the central hub for online communication including all social media both coming (what other people say) and going (what you say on other social media), customer contacts like Constant Contact DRIP campaign, brochure and other document downloads, blogs and Twitter-like updates, testimonials, customer inquiries.