I’ve been trying out a new backup system and I LOVE IT! Best $5 a month I ever spent!
Totally recommend this company – BackBlaze
Read my previous post on WHY backing up is important:
http://ritamawebdesign.com/why-an-off-site-file-back-up-is-important
And then get backed up, OK?
We upgraded Ann Vetter-Hansen’s simple one page site into a marvelous WordPress site that Ann can now upgrade and blog on herself.
I love the colors and simplicity of this site design and it really suits Ann’s sensibilities, giving her prospective clients a feeling about the type of lawyer that she is.
About 4 years ago I did a simple one page site for Buckland & Schumm and it served them well for a few years. Two months ago they decided they wanted the whole enchilada for their site. I was more than happy to redo it! We used the same cool building graphic (’cause it looks like their building – clever ‘eh?) but this time we put the whole site in WordPress, so the graphics reflect a more “modern” layout and there is a groovy sidebar for Recent Posts and their Contact Info. Pam did all the programming and got the videos on the front page.
Buckland & Schumm also hired an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert to get their rankings showing up higher in the searches. While my company provides basic SEO for our clients, we recommend hiring a professional SEO company if your business is in a competitive field and you want to increase your chances of coming up on the first page of Google.
Call me if you’d like a recommendation for professional SEO help!
Aldrich Farms is a gourmet food company that needed a clean and simple interface and a shopping cart. Pam set it all up and did a fabulous job.The client is also able to update his content using WordPress for an interface.
Ciro’s Books is the site of author Willie Wilkerson. Willie wanted a site that looked contemporary but with hints of the past showing through. I created a site that felt more “ancient” with compasses and books, but also had up to date features like a shopping cart!
The site was created in WordPress and put together by Pam, the best programmer on …….earth.
Kit Travis Muehlman is a hypnotist and yoga instructor.
Kit needed a hypnosis site that would attract clients and she wanted something elegant and simple that she could update. So of course we did it in WordPress! I especially love the colors and background image, it makes her site look professional and friendly. Just like her!
John Hawkins asked us to create a beautiful Yoga site for his teachings.
Ta-Da!
Of course, we created it in WordPress so he could update his info as needed.
It’s been 5 years since Katrina. I know this is my “business” blog, but it was a huge event and I’d like to honor that with an update on some of the good things that happened in relation to it.
Some of the most heart-filling stories come from the people that were involved in rescuing the pets that were left behind.
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, was the first animal rescue team on the ground.
(Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is one of the most beautiful places on earth and a group that I support. Please visit their web site and find out more about the good work they do).
Everyone that loves their pets needs to have an evacuation plan for their pets just as they would have for their other family members. Don’t let your beloved beasts get lost in the fracas of an emergency situation!
Below is a story from their site.
Click here to see the video.
You can click here to order the book (I have it, it’s beautiful).
On the Water
August 20, 2010, 8:19PM MT
By Sandy Miller, Best Friends staff writer
Profile of two Best Friends staff who were first on the ground after Hurricane Katrina, Ethan Gurney and Jeff Popowich. Their story is unique.
“Remembering Katrina” recounts, through story and image, the experiences of those who joined in the monumental effort to rescue the thousands of pets left stranded by Hurricane Katrina. This series pays tribute to the rescuers and to the animals’ extraordinary will to survive during one of America’s worst disasters.
Ethan Gurney remembers it being so quiet out there on the water.
“There wasn’t any wind. You didn’t hear any birds,” says Gurney, a Best Friends’ animal care specialist and a member of the Hurricane Katrina rescue team. “Any sound stood out. You could hear dogs inside the houses scratching on the doors.”
Gurney and Jeff Popowich, now Best Friends’ senior animal care manager, were two of the first people Best Friends sent out on the rescue mission after the category 5 hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast back in August 2005, breaking the levees and leaving The Big Easy swimming in a large pool of murky water.
Gurney and Popowich, stationed at the Best Friends base camp in Tylertown, Mississippi, would hit the road before dawn each morning to make it to New Orleans by daybreak. There, they would launch the boat from an off ramp and go block by block looking for dogs and cats who’d been stranded in the flood.
“We’d go through the neighborhoods listening for dogs,” Popowich says. “Once we heard one, we’d go to the house and find a way to get the dogs into the boat.”
Once the boat was full, they’d take the animals back to a staging area, unload them and head back out on the water again. They’d quit at sunset, head over to the Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter, grab some food, usually an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) or a Red Cross box lunch, then load up the dogs and cats on transport trucks and take them back to Tylertown. The days were typically 18 to 20 hours long. After a while, Popowich and Gurney began camping out in sleeping bags on the floor of the shelter which gave them a couple more hours of much-needed sleep.
Created a fun poster for the 4th Annual Fairhaven Salmon BBQ & Sidewalk Sale.
This will be FUN! If you are in the area, there is more info on this site: www.fairhaven.com
William Powers is now a NYT Best Selling Author!
It’s wonderful news and a real thrill to have a client hit the “big-time”.
Congratulations Bill!!!!!!!
Visit his web site for more info about Hamlet’s BlackBerry and to see if Bill will be speaking in your town, or making an appearance on radio or TV.