Brown & Jones, Wisconsin Certified Court Reporters, offer a wide variety of court and legal services for your needs.

From state-of-the-art conference facilities, to comprehensive court reporting services, to computer litigation support, they’ll support you from Milwaukee to Maine, Wisconsin to Washington state.

If you need to schedule a deposition you can do so right from their website.

Brown & Jones hired flyte to design and develop their WordPress website, as well as engaged us for search engine optimization and web marketing.

You can also follow Brown & Jones on Twitter, like them on Facebook, follow them on LinkedIn, and check out their YouTube channel.

Rich Brooks
Small Business Web Design

DAC Sales offers HVAC products and solutions to building owners, architects, mechanical engineers and contractors looking for creative, sustainable solutions.

With their focus on custom HVAC solutions, they can tailor a solution to your exact needs, whether you run a hospital, laboratory, university, K-12 school or commercial building.

Mechanical engineers can get their questions answered by DAC President Rick McGinley in the Ask Rick section. (You know, I was just wondering whether the motor on the high plume dillution fan was outside the fan. Thanks for settling that bar bet, Rick!)

DAC hired flyte to design and develop the site on WordPress so they can easily manage daily updates and develop an HVAC blog. We also developed an SEO strategy including keyword analysis, copywriting, blogging and link building.

Serious about keeping their industry leading status, they’ve also engaged us in our flyte training program: your personal trainer for web marketing.

If you need a sustainable HVAC solution be sure to give DAC Sales a holler. If you need help with your website or internet marketing, you know where to go.

Rich Brooks
WordPress Design

So says Drumcircle, a unique research and communications company that helps marketers find the emotionally resonant component of a product or brand and communicate that to their audience.

People aren’t always rational when it comes to making decisions, especially buying decisions. Our emotions often drive us. Drumcircle helps companies understand these reasons, which they call Emotivations™, so their messaging is on target.

They’ve created a proprietary research tool called b.frank that reveals Emotivations. You can even test out b.frank for yourself with an online survey.

Principals Bill Mount and Anne Manning are also blogging at the site, with some great insights into consumer behavior with posts like “To ‘Understand Chinese Consumers’, Start By Understanding People,” and introspective posts like “Are You Smart Enough?“

The blog–and the entire website–is powered by WordPress, so that Drumcircle can blog and update their own website through one easy-to-use admin panel. If you’ve been shying away from WordPress or another CMS because you were afraid the design would look canned, hopefully flyte’s Creative Director, Ryan Goan, has given you reason to reflect.

So, if you’re looking to get a better understanding of why people buy your product (or don’t), or how they feel about your brand (or why they don’t), be sure to head over to Drumcircle and start learning more about emotions and buying habits.

Rich Brooks
Maine Web Design

This week flyte launched a new website for the Cedars, designed by Braden Buehler of Narrative Design. The site is organized around the Cedars continuum of senior care:

• Independent Living,
• Assisted Living,
• Rehabilitation Services, and
• Skilled Care.

I was privileged enough to get a tour of the facility one time while I was there and I can tell you that it’s just a beautiful place. (Side note: before I started flyte I was a sales rep for a company that sold to nursing homes, so I’ve probably been inside 100+ facilities in my life. This place rocks.)

Whatever the needs for you or a loved one are, The Cedars is the place to check out if you have ties to Maine. You should definitely set up a time for a tour.

The new site was built on WordPress, the open-source content management system (CMS) platform. Now The Cedars can update their own site, posting new events, blogging, uploading images, embedding videos and more. They have complete control over their new site to better reflect the ongoing changes and happenings at their facility.

Besides the beautiful design, Braden also handled the copywriting for the site, guided by the keyword analysis and other search engine optimization services offered by the talented web marketers I work with.

If you’re looking for senior living options in southern Maine, be sure to check out the Cedars. If you’re looking to grow your business (or facility) online, be sure to contact flyte.

Rich Brooks
Maine Web Design

Whether you live in Camden, Maine, (map) or you’re just one of the thousands of people who who love visiting Maine’s rocky coast in the Camden/Rockport area every year, you need to check out Megunticook Market.

Besides a great selection of wine & cheeses and a focus on local Maine foods, you can also get your parties catered through Megunticook as well.

I’ve known proprietor Lani Temple for a few years now, and she’s popped into our offices more than once with some treats. They’re always delicious and definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area. (And worth a drive if you’re not!)

Lani also often appears on 207, a popular evening news program, sharing recipes and tips with the hosts and viewers.

Megunticook Market also is on Facebook, so be sure to like them there.

Megunticook Market had launched their site a few years back, and were looking for a more updated look and more control over the content. We freshened up the design and rebuilt the site on WordPress, a popular content management system that’s perfect for most small businesses. Lani had a blog that had been built on TypePad. To make her life easier, we exported most of her old posts and repopulated them on the WordPress platform. Now she only has one login to manage both her blog and site.

If you want a great specialty market experience on the Maine coast, be sure to check out Megunticook Market in Camden, Maine. If you need a website that you can update and manage yourself, be sure to contact flyte today.

Rich Brooks
Hungry

Evanhoe & Associates is a provider of IT, AIT, RFID and AIDC solutions.

• What is IT? OK, we started you off with an easy one: Information Technology.
• What is AIT? AIT stands for Automatic Identification Technologies; with AIT workers can perform jobs better. Systems can assist with inventory, product shelf life, asset management and more.
• What is RFID? RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification; RFID enabled facilities allow for increased asset visibility throughout the manufacturing process.
• What is AIDC? AIDC stands for Automatic Identification and Data Capture; which apparently does everything AIT does plus it captures data.

See, you learn something new every day. At least if you read the flyte blog.

Evanhoe works with a wide variety of industries; government, healthcare, horticulture, logistics, manufacturing and retail. Chances are, if you have a supply chain, Evanhoe can help you better manage it.

Flyte designed their new website and built it on WordPress, the popular content management system and blogging platform. Evanhoe can now update their website inhouse without any expensive software or HTML knowledge, giving them complete control over their web presence. Would you like that kind of control over your own website?

Rich Brooks
WordPress Web Design

In addition, they run The Leadership School, The Kennedy Learning Center, a Veterans’ Camp, and a 9/11 camp for the families and friends affected by the terrorist attacks.

Besides working with KW on their social media marketing, we developed a blog for them that would complement their current designs and branding. The blog is just getting started, but it will serve many purposes…everything from communications with parents, campers and alumni, as well as a way to reach out to veteran’s familes, and those affected by 9/11 to let them know there’s a safe place for them to come.

Both Kieve & Wavus have these amazing theme days…last year one of them was Avatar day, when the counselors dressed up in full Na’vi outfits and painted blue from head to toe. (I would have suggested that the following day would be Blue Man Group day, just to save time and blue paint.) They plan on keeping parents in the loop with some of the theme days throughout the summer months.

If you’re looking for a Maine camp for your son or daughter, be sure to check out KieveWavus.

Rich Brooks
WordPress Blog Development

On the corporate side, The Loeb Group offers corporate training, coaching and retreat facilitation. Their services are perfect if you’re stepping into a new position with greater visibility, or if you’re suddenly pushed into the spotlight as a company spokesperson, or if you find yourself managing a group of people for the first time.

The Loeb Group also works with PR, advertising and web marketing agencies. Beryl Loeb, the founder of The Loeb Group, has worked within or consulted to agencies for thirty years, so she really understands the inner workings of agencies, the crushing deadlines, the unrealistic client expectations, and the infusion of gen Y employees who “expect that their employers are going to help them hone their skills.”

Speaking of Beryl, she’s the blogger behind Loeb’s Lobs, the onsite blog for corporate execs and agency professionals. Recent posts include:

• What Would Your Clients Say?
• Winning Ways for First Meetings and
• Managers, motivation, delegation…and the Passover seder

The site and blog were built on WordPress, the popular blogging and content management system platform. Now the Loeb Group can add, edit and delete the content on the website as easily as updating a Word document.

If you or someone in your office needs some executive level training to improve communications and interpersonal skills, be sure to check out The Loeb Group today.

Rich Brooks
WordPress Web Design

It won’t bite, I promise.

You can watch this video, How to Add a Video to Your WordPress Blog, or read the brief description below.

Step 1: Grab the embed code. YouTube and other video sharing sites make it easy to grab the code that displays the video, often called the “embed code.” In the case of this client the video was from a segment on a local television show. Luckily, this show posted the video along with the embed code. You’ll want to copy that embed code to your clipboard.

Alert! After making this video I noticed YouTube has a new iframe embed code (pictured below). WordPress “cleaned up” that code. If this happens to you check the “Use old embed code” box on YouTube. More details below.

Step 2: Post the code into your WordPress blog post. First, determine where you’d like the video to be placed while looking at the Visual editor. If you’re not familiar with HTML code, you may want to create a placeholder by typing in something like “Video Goes Here” or “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”.

Then click on the “HTML” tab in the upper right hand corner so that you can view the HTML code.

Find your placeholder (if you made one) and copy and paste the embed code there. Switch back to the Visual tab and you should see a pale yellow box where your video will appear. If this doesn’t happen then try selecting the “Old Embed Code”.

That should do it! If you get the video going on your own blog, feel free to post a link below.

Rich Brooks
Video Marketing

There’s a big difference between an affordable website for small businesses and a cheap one.

If you’re looking for a cheap website just Google it. You’ll find plenty of options.

If you’re looking for an affordable website that you can use to build your business, take a look at our ProSites. They’re perfect for the startup as well as a growing business that wants to allocate more of their web budget to online marketing campaigns that include search engine optimization, email marketing, blogging and social media.

These pre-designed websites are build on WordPress so that you can handle all the updates yourself without any expensive software…all you’ll need is a web browser. They’re built rock solid and can grow with your business. Add a blog, add an email newsletter, integrate it with your social media marketing.

We’ve just introduced a new ProSite design called Panoramas that has five different color schemes. It can even be tailored to match your own brand’s colors.

If you’re ready to graduate from the website your brother-in-law/neighbor’s kid/niece build for you, and still have money left over for raise your online visibility, drive more qualified traffic to your site and turn that traffic into leads and sales, than the ProSites might be the perfect fit for you.

Rich Brooks
Web Design for Small Business