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 A content management system can dramatically change how easy it is to manage content on news-type websites.
Journal Press, Inc. publishes a weekly newspaper covering King George
and Westmoreland counties and the town of Colonial Beach in Virginia. They also broker commercial printing. Journal Press has had a website since about
1995. They were and early adopter for the internet; and went online before
the regional daily paper. The Journal is a small woman-owned business; Ruth
Herrink purchased the paper in 1984 and Jessica Herrink joined the paper in 1988.
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 A new site from one of our Partners, Designs on Fire is a great example of how custom templates can be used in Simplweb.
The site, www.mattexservice.com is a small business website for an HVAC company in East Central Illinois. The Mattex Service Company has been installing, repairing, and servicing heating, cooling, plumbing, ventilation, refrigeration, electrical and commercial kitchen equipment in Champaign and the East Central Illinois area since 1994. With over 100 years combined experience, Mattex is known for providing quality workmanship that exceeds customer expectations. Mattex is proud to advertise their new face on the Web.
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Another recent site launch takes advantage of our new membership website package.
E-Newsletter Success
is a membership site designed around one central idea—that staying in touch
with the people you know using an E-Newsletter is the best way to market
professional services. However, E-Newsletters have a lot of moving parts and
are often very hard to maintain month after month after month. Enter
E-Newsletter Success.
E-Newsletter Success teaches professional service
providers how to launch a successful E-Newsletter from “I want to launch an
E-Newsletter but I’m not sure where to begin.” to “I just launched my
E-Newsletter. Now what?.”
The instructors for the course are legendary E-Newsletter guru
Michael Katz of Blue Penguin Development, Inc. and Chad Board, not so legendary
and much younger, from Unlimited, Ltd.
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One of our most recent site launches takes advantage of our new membership website package. Its called Property Face2Face, a new property focused networking group for Nottingham, England. The site creator Leon Hampson described the need for the new site, "We felt that there was a lack of a regular, dedicated meeting for local property professionals. The idea of the group was to meet up and share ideas and opinions with like minded people in this unpredictable market that we are currently in."
Leon had already built his site in Joomla, and was looking to expand its features by adding a paid subscription to the existing Community Builder plugin's. The launch of our membership site solution was perfect timing for him.
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The Sterling
Cougars are a volunteer-led youth football league in
Northern Virginia. At the team's first organizational meeting in early
August 2008, parents were asked who might have the time and skills to
build the team its own website. Simplweb veteran Bill E. raised his
hand, because he knew he could bang out a basic website for the team in
a couple hours work. Offer the practice schedule as a pdf? Check. List
the games, dates, and locations? No problem. Map to the practice field?
Easy.
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Can an all-volunteer nonprofit have a powerful, attractive,
and fresh website?
Friends of Mount Sunapee thinks so.
One of the first nonprofits to use Simplweb, the Friends of
Mount Sunapee (FOMS) began their site by copying over dozens of pages
of HTML over from their old website by hand, a laborious task that
reaffirmed their appreciation for a dynamic content management system
like Simplweb.
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Simplweb work for many different types of small
businesses. Bill & Betsy Warner of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina are a great example of how and why.
Bill and Betsy are
partners in South
Island Marketing,
an internet marketing firm supporting resort-based businesses like
water sports, real estate rental firms, golf resorts, and related
publications.
In early July, they stumbled onto Simplweb after spending years trying to use lots of expensive software and complicated manuals.
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One of our favorite customers is Stella's Italian Kitchen
& Market in Lyme, NH. When we first approached
Stella's, Bob & Denby (the owners) were skeptical.
"Don't you have to be a computer geek to make a website? Or spend
thousands of dollars?" they asked. Our answers: NO and NO.
Armed with only basic computer skills (MS Word,
Gmail, and some digital photograph downloading experience) Bob
& Denby dove in.
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Hanover
Innovative Payment designs complex electronic
payment systems all over the world, but until they tried Simplweb, they
couldn't update their own website.
"The old 'web designer is god' model is impractical for
a fast-moving business like ours," said Chris Stowe of
HIP.
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The sun-soaked island of Malta sits in the Meditteranean just
waiting for adventure travelers. Or so goes the story on Malta
Activities, an outdoor recreation guide and marketing site.
Site visitors quickly realize they have many choices for
outdoor fun. A stream of action shots greet you on the homepage. Dig
deeper, and you'll find an embedded YouTube video of their mobile climbing wall.
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