We’ve just put the final touches on a new custom website for Erin Hession Photography. This new website certainly is one-of-a-kind. In the past, we’ve developed websites based entirely on code and graphics. This new website takes our abilities to the next level and allows us to introduce a more rich, animated and interactive product.

Erin came to us needing something that stood out from the rest. She needed not only a new look and feel for her website, but she needed to make an instant impression on her potential clients.

For this new custom website, we utilized a new custom design with animated drop down navigation. We also introduced a flash based slideshow that rotates between photos and customer testimonials. Each page has page transition animation and a full screen background image. In addition, we utilized spectacular image galleries and even chose some awesome music to go along with the individual nature of each gallery (check out the Pets Gallery).

Erin’s work literally speaks for itself and now, so does her website!

Erin had this to say about her new site: “I just have to say that my new website is soooo amazing…it makes me cry…that’s how much I LOVE it!”

Click here to view her awesome new website!

If you’re interested in talking more about how we can help you with your website, contact us today!

Earlier this week, we launched a major website change for Chris Johnson and the Johnson Realty Group at F.C. Tucker.

The Johnson Realty Group had a website already, but came to us looking for a way to improve their overall conversion and search positioning. After working up one of our site reviews, examining every aspect of the design, content, search positioning and social media interaction, we were able to highlight aspects of their website that we could help them improve.

Many of the changes that they asked us to handle surrounded usability and visitor conversion. In addition, we added a lot of new content that focused on the Indianapolis and surrounding area, an easier to use navigation and contact forms for visitor conversion.

You can check out their website here: http://www.indychrisjohnson.com

We’re busy putting the finishing touches on a brand new media site to the Hamilton County scene. Hamilton County Sports Daily is a news media site setting out to cover high school sports from 9 schools in the Hamilton County area. They came to us with a basic concept and a site in progress and needed us to make it different and stand out from the crowd.

We started with their design layout and changed it around to fit their needs, by adding sections for feature items. We then created an internal site structure that will allow the site to grow as they need it.

The final portion of the site is the social media side. When this is finished, each visitor will be able to sign up and create their own social profile directly on the site and interact with other site users.

We’re excited about the launch of this new site and we hope you get a chance to check it out. Click here to visit Hamilton County Sports Daily.

This week we launched a new site for a local condo development on Morse Reservoir! The Villas on Morse Lake is a premium condominium development that has units priced between $100k and $250k. These upscale homes overlook Morse Reservoir and include a lot of high-end amenities such as a heated underground parking garage, balconies, boat docks, and a clubhouse and fitness center.

They contacted us with a need to have a custom look for their new development. We worked with their new branding to create a completely custom design and applied that design to a content management system, giving them the ability to maintain the content on the site as needed. We also developed a jQuery photo gallery and jQuery gradual menu rollovers to give the site an enhanced image.

Click here to visit their site: http://www.villasonmorselake.com

We’ve been hard at work recently with a number of new websites that are launching. The first site is for Classic Cakes. Not only are they one of the best cake bakeries in Indianapolis, but they were also voted the A-List best for wedding cakes in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

They contacted us with a need for a new image. Their old website was outdated and they didn’t have any way to update it. Their previous site didn’t flow with their current branding.

We delivered in a big way with a custom design and applied that custom design to a content management system so they could maintain their site as needed. In addition, we also integrated a blog into their site, giving them the ability to post highlights from recent weddings, specials, events and much more.

Click here to visit their new website.

We’re proud to announce that we’re launching our first Marketing Intensive Workshop. Our new workshops are designed to help you understand the online marketing landscape and create strategic plans that help take your business to the next level.

Our first Marketing Intensive Workshop is entitled: Creating an Online Plan that Works. It’ll be an in-depth class where you’ll learn everything from branding to search and social media and how it all fits together. It’s a class for businesses that are serious about their marketing and want to create a detailed online plan that will help position them for future growth and lead generation.

You’ll learn what it takes to create a winning online marketing plan from start to finish. In this 3 hour class you’ll learn how to identify your marketing niche, establish a budget, understand your brand and your website’s role in a successful marketing plan, learn how to integrate social media, email marketing and much more.

Here are just some of the things you’ll learn at this class:

• Advanced online advertising methods
• Integrating social media into your plan
• Finding the niche marketing avenues to target your clients
• Analyzing and improving your website to improve ROI
• Learn your ROE (Return on Engagement)
• Find out some of the ways your competition is marketing to your potential clients online
• How to leverage your social media connections to generate leads
• How to use search and social advertising to target new potential leads
• How to get free media exposure for your business
• How to track your social “reputation”
• How to turn your customers into advocates
• Much More…

Attendees who qualify for the early bird registration will also receive a FREE website review OR search engine optimization report! (Both valued at $99) Our website reviews are a detailed analysis of the content on your site and your search rankings which will help you better understand what you can do to improve the overall customer experience on your site and generate more leads. Our SEO Reports help you understand where your site currently ranks against your competition. In addition, it helps to identify keywords and link partners that you can use to boost your search rankings. Seating is limited for this event so sign up today!

We’ve been honored to have been able to create a new custom site for Shoot Fore Sammi, a non-profit organization and golf event helping to raise funds and awareness for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (or SIDS). The organization plans and operates a golf tournament that raises money for the SIDS Center of Indiana.  For this new site, we did a custom design, and a content management system (so they will be able to edit the site themselves). We also integrated the site with Paypal and Eventbrite for faster management of their event, registration of the golfers and teams, donations and sponsorships.

Being a past participant in other SIDS events, I was truly excited to be able to work with Heather, the founder of Shoot Fore Sammi, on the planning and development of this new site.

Heather was so excited for the launch of the new site, that she had this to say, “The website is awesome!!! To most, it will seem as though you simply created a website, but to me, you are helping to keep my daughter’s memory alive and in turn helping my dream come to life.  I know this sounds so cheezy, but its the truth. Thank you for all your hard work through all of this!!!”

You’re welcome Heather!

For our WordPress clients, we use a plugin called Resize at Upload Plus to ensure that any images that are uploaded are immediately resized to a manageable size. Using a tool like this is a practical solution when you are concerned about overall server storage for a WordPress blog that will be utilizing a lot of images.

Recently we ran into an issue with the plugin that is caused by a default limitation in WordPress.

“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4000 bytes)”.

An error like this would obviously prevent any photo from being resized after upload, but it also prevents the photo from completing the upload process.

The cause of this error is a default setting in WordPress. By default WP installs with a default memory limit of 32M. This is the maximum amount of memory that can be used by PHP. Some web hosts will pre-set this limit to something really low (like 8M) and some will not let you change this. However, in this case, if your web host allows you to change this here’s what you’ll need to do to increase this limit and avoid this fatal error:

1. Open wp_settings.php and search for “WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’. This will most likely be at the start of the file around line 13.
2. Change the default number for the memory amount allocated for PHP. I recommend 64M or 96M. In some cases you may just need to increase the limit slightly, but for WordPress sites that use a lot of plugins, you’ll want to increase this level more since there will be more of the PHP plugins that will be using that limit.
3. Save the file and upload to your site.
4. Try uploading the files again to see if this has solved the error.

InspireMedia has launched a new site this week! A Touch of Elegance is a mother/daughter event coordination team. They contacted InspireMedia needing a new custom design for their site. Not only did we give them a new custom design, but we built their site in such a way that it will grow with their business for years to come. The site is built off of the popular WordPress content management system and blogging platform and features a custom gallery plugin customizable contact forms, and more.

Site: http://www.atouchofelegancellc.com

Just Launched!!! We’ve been working hard on the new site for Tyler Mason Salon and Spa. Tyler Mason has worked hard to earn a reputation for great customer service. They’ve put their emphasis on the experience every client has at their salon and spa.

In addition to great service, Tyler Mason is also a proud supporter of the Indianapolis Colts as well as being the official salon and spa for the Colts cheerleaders.

For their new design, we created a design the brought in elements of simplicity. With a clean design and easy to use navigation and information, we helped take their site to the next level. Plus the site is 100% WordPress powered. That means that as they grow and change, their website will be able to grow with them very easily.

Click here to visit Tyler Mason.