The Ultimate in Pool Care
Type of work: design and development of full web site, as well as the delivery of a Facebook Timeline page with integrated Facebook applications. Website url: www.ultimatepoolcare.com Platform: WordPress Please note that extensive re-work was recently accomplished on this site allowing for the responsive display of the site and its use in various screen sizes (e.g., smartphones, tablets, etc.). This work entailed using the newly introduced, responsive version of the original WordPress theme and the addition of almost 2,000 lines of css (Cascading Style Sheet) code. Examples of the Facebook...
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Just about anyone who drives down Route 73 through Keene, NY has a smartphone of some kind. An iPhone, or an Android, or one from the other handful of flavors that permeate the current market. One equipped with a camera. And if there’s even a smidgen of truth to the statistics reported by Clarkson’s Adirondacks Business Center, that means there’s about 1.6 million of them traveling through town yearly. 1.6 million of them, those smartphones, accompanied by potential customers. Give or take, that is. What does this mean for local businesses? Imagine this: techno-savvy...
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You know you want one, perhaps even need one. One that’s well-designed, truly functional, and tailored to your specific needs, even if they’re fairly simple. Not entirely convinced? Read on. Let’s say you live in an area like I do, in the middle of the mountains along the tourists’ beaten paths*. Better yet, let’s say you’re actually one of those tourists, staying in a lodge, at a campground, or whatever. You brought what you thought was everything you needed for your stay. Food, bug repellent, toilet paper & reading material (not necessarily one in...
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Though I enjoy doing just about anything I do, I really enjoy doing logo work. Not because it earns me a great deal of money mind you, but more because doing such work often affords me the opportunity to shift my skills into maximum-overdrive, creatively speaking. Once I’ve got the basic research done, gears churn, buttons get pressed, and stick figures get drawn out with the sweep of my mouse. As fit & figure comes more and more together, ideas take shape, eventually realizing themselves in the happy faces of those I do such work for (and me, of course). Take the logo for this...
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