Our latest client website has gone live. For the last month I’ve been working with Darrin Selking from Lanscape Illumination- a landscape lighting firm based in Valparaiso, Indiana - to develop a new Wordpress based dynamic website for them.

The site has turned out great and I think it looks great. Darrin and his team do beautiful work in landscape lighting all over the country and early on we decided that their work needed to be the center of the site – so on every page on the site you’ll see images and videos of their awesome work.

Our work for them included:

• Wordpress Theme Customization
• Site Installation and setup
• Moved Content from Old Site
• Created Custom Image Gallery system to show off their work
• Custom Contact Form Creation (Two lead forms – one with 50 fields!)
• Content Consultation
• Page formatting and setup
• Google Analytics Installation and setup
• Basic Site Search Engine Optimization and Google Search Submission

Check out the site here: Landscape Illumination, LLC

Thanks Darrin! I hope your new website brings you much success!

One of our recent projects was a small website for a local DJ based in the Chicagoland area. Patrick wanted a simple website that he would be able to update himself. He was on a budget and didn’t want expensive ongoing website management fees.

So, we built him a small website using the Wordpress content management platoform using a Studuiopress template we had a license for.

He was very pleased with the result.

The website features:

Homepage that featured pictures
Video Page
Blog About His Business
Social Media Integration
Review/Guestbook system where customers could leave a review
Details about his Equipment and Music
Contact Form
Google Analytics Tracking
Basic Search Engine Optimization

The whole project was quick – we had the site done for him in a week – and it was a pleasure to build. Patrick is a great guy to work with and we highly recommend using him as a DJ!

Check out the site here.

A friend came to me with an interesting project a few months ago. James K. Barath (Twitter: myCMPS) wanted me to transfer his content from a free blogging service to a self hosted blog and then turn it into a fully featured real estate website for Northwest Indiana.

The overall goal of the site was to make it so that if you search for ‘home values valparaiso’ or ‘mortgage chesterton’ that somewhere in the top 10 will be Welcome Home NWI – since the site is still new that hasn’t happened yet, but it will soon.

The key feature of the site is real time real estate data for several communities in Northwest Indiana from Altos Research. The graphs and real time data is dynamically generated every time the page is loaded.

The site is built upon Wordpress. We’re using it as a basic content management system and also as a blog. We heavily modified the Studiopress Agent theme in order to fit it into what we’re doing.

Several things the site needed: customized contact forms to generate leads, social media integration since James is a prolific tweeter and SEO to target our geographic area.

The result, we think, is stunning. For the first time, Northwest Indiana now has a website completely dedicated to real estate data and home searching.

Check it out here.

If you’re interested in developing a fully featured and dynamic website, contact us for a free estimate.

Great news!

We finished up a project for one of our latest clients – the Evelyn Bay Coffee Company located in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Tia Hoffman, the owner wanted a nice website that allowed them to post blog articles, post their menus, have an event calendar and connect with their clients.

After reviewing their needs, I recommend that we develop a Wordpress based website for them. Wordpress would allow them to do everything they wanted to do, while providing for them an easy way to update the site themselves.

Wordpress is great for small websites like this, even if the blog element is not front and center. Wordpress makes a great little content management system and it’s very flexible. The client is also very active in social media and wanted an easy way to integrate them into the site.

What all did we do for them?

• Wordpress Installation
• Wordpress Theme Customization
• Site Layout
• Content Plan
• Content writing/insertion
• Develop Contact Form System
• Search Engine Optimization
• and more!

The site only took a few weeks to develop and Evelyn Bay is very happy with the result.

If you’re in the Valparaiso area – be sure to stop by Evelyn Bay Coffee Company. It’s a much nicer place than the local Starbucks.

Evelyn Bay Coffee Company