Just up the road from Camden, Maine, is The Inn at Ocean’s Edge: 22 acres of gardens, lawns and woods, not to mention the Infinity Pool and the award-winning The Edge; oceanfront dining at it’s finest.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Inn last year while I was doing some blog consultation with Jesse Henry and other members of the staff up there. One of my favorite things to do is drive up route 1 in Maine, past Wiscasset, Newcastle and Rockport and all the other towns that make up the mid-coast of Maine. As nice as the trip was, I was really blown away by the resort itself, and they were still (at that point) putting the final touches on the pool and new restaurant.

Hopefully you’ll find that the Web site is a reflection of the Inn at Ocean’s Edge and it’s staff: elegant, beautiful, and extremely helpful and full of great ideas. The site has information on local museums, sailing and hiking adventures, road trips and more. There’s also plenty of Maine coast lodging packages available as well.

The site is also much more search engine friendly than their previous Web site, as well as some other high-end resorts that rely too much on Flash to sell themselves. With some advanced CSS and PHP we were able to create an elegant navigation scheme that doesn’t prevent search engines from indexing their site.

As part of the Web site redesign we extended the branding to their blog as well.

The Inn at Ocean’s Edge blog talks about events going on in Camden, Lincolnville and the surrounding area. They also promote their packages there as well. Readers can subscribe to the blog through their XML feed or through an email signup to get early alerts about special packages from the Inn.

Rich Brooks
Maine Web Design