Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc. (www.blizzardinternet.com), a Glenwood Springs, Colorado-based web design and hosting company whose customer base consists mainly of independently owned hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, country inns, vacation rentals and resorts, announced on November 18 the launch of the new website design for the Eastland Park Hotel (Magna Hospitality Group). In addition to currently designing websites for 5 of the Magna properties, Blizzard is also actively promoting 15 properties, focusing on building high-quality traffic through proven Internet marketing strategies, and ultimately increasing bookings.
TemplateMonster.com (www.templatemonster.com), one of the largest website templates providers on the Web, announced on November 17 that it has improved its customer service by adding online marketing services from Overture.com (www.overture.com), a company which offers essential marketing services for companies doing business online. The aim is to help the newcomers in the online business by providing them with a comprehensive solution for their online business with a startup at their Internet office realized through a website template from Template Monster and with a startup advertising budget of $25 from Overture.com, which comes with any purchase of a Template Monster template.
Loop Music by deDios Loop Music (www.geocities.com/dediosmusicpayments/) announced on November 16 that they will be unveiling a new website due to the increase in business traffic. Young web design wiz Stephanie Morgan has been retained by deDios to design and implement the new site, with roll-out scheduled to take place in November 2004. Given Morgan's talent and deDios' business savvy, customers can look forward to an eye-catching site that's customer-friendly.
IJNet (www.ijnet.org) announced on November 12 that the Mass Media Center at St. Petersburg State University is offering a workshop on Web design from November 29 to December 5. Participants will learn about contemporary design techniques for the Internet using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash coding. They will learn to layout Web pages, how to use graphics and animation, and the best ways to structure a site. More information is available at www.jf.pu.ru/win/mass-seminar2.html.
4mercury, Inc. (www.4mercury.com), a San Antonio, Texas-based firm providing Web Design and Application Solutions, announced on November 15 that it has redesigned and re-developed a Web site for Souper Salad, the largest soup and salad restaurant chain currently operating 131 restaurants in 16 states. The new site www.soupersalad.com features an attractive look and feel primarily portraying Souper Salad’s array of fresh new products. In addition to aesthetical changes, the Web site also features a nutritional chart of all their foods, which can be sorted from highest to lowest or vice-versa.
Open World (www.openworld.org), a company which designs and hosts more than 1500 hotel and travel related websites, attracting more than 120 million visitors each year and generating over $ 450 million of annual online revenue, announced on November 11 that it has created a design that embraces the rich history of Warwick International Hotels, a collection of over 30 of the world's finest hotels, resorts and spas, with user-friendly navigation and content-rich pages. The home page www.warwickhotels.com branches off into individual hotel web sites for each of the 12 company-owned hotels and content-rich pages for 18 of their affiliate members. There are dedicated sections for Meeting Planners to select ideal venues for their events and for Travel Agents to search for trade news and offers. In addition, Warwick has joined Open World’s network of travel web sites, which is recognized as the fastest growing direct-connect online distribution channel in the hotel industry.
WebProNews.com (www.webpronews.com) announced on November 11 that Hot Banana (www.hotbanana.com), a leading Web Content Management System company and an innovative next-generation Internet software company that has developed a leading-edge technology to enable sales and marketing professionals to take total control of their corporate Web sites, has fully adopted the W3C Web Standards into its Hot Banana 5 Software. By adopting the W3C Web standards, Hot Banana will be able to lower production costs, simplify design and content creation, be compatible with all browsers, allow multiple Web device accessibility and improve the user experience.
Branford, Connecticut-based O,R&L (www.or-l.com), a facility management, construction and real estate brokerage firm, announced on November 11 the completion of its web site redesign. The Farmington, Connecticut-based web design firm Acsys, Inc., worked with the O,R&L marketing team to enhance and communicate the multiple services offered by O,R&L.
MWI (www.mwi.com), a brand management and Web development firm, announced on November 11 that it has been selected to provide creative Web design and consultation services to Garage Technology Ventures (www.garage.com), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. MWI will begin the redesign of the Garage Technology Ventures Web site www.garage.com immediately, anticipating that the new site will be launched by the end of 2004. The MWI team, which consists of professional graphic designers, programmers and developers, will oversee the creative design, site navigation and content development for the Garage Web site.
GetSeattle.com (www.getseattle.com) announced on November 10 that Gold Mambo (www.goldmambo.com) is offering website templates for the Mambo content management system, which will allow web hosting companies to add web design to their product line. Gold Mambo charges a yearly subscription and allows access to their growing collection of sensational templates, which do not require technical prowess to implement and deploy new designs for customers’ websites.
