Converted Naturopathic Physician’s website to WordPress. This project involved exporting the contents of a custom database, matching fields, and importing the CSV files to WordPress.
Whitney Tree Service
Vermont Arborists providing full service tree care, pruning, removals, new planting design.
Modernized existing WordPress website, April 2019, https://www.whitneytreeservice.com/.
Big Picture Theater
This project involved converting the Big Picture’s database-driven, custom coded site to WordPress, maintaining the easy addition and movement of featured posts via widgets.
Avon Self Storage
Climate and Non-Climate Controlled storage units in the Farmington Valley of central Connecticut serving the towns of Avon, Canton, Simsbury, Farmington, West Hartford, Granby, and Plainville.
Converted to WordPress 2/25/19, https://avonselfstorage.com/
Elevation Physical Therapy
Physical therapists who specialize in rehabilitation for injuries sustained in sports, accidents, or while working, as well as treating individuals rehabilitating after surgery. Athletic training and sports performance services provided. Holistic approach involves full postural assessment to identify muscle imbalances as well as integration of all system imbalances including respiratory, visual and neurological.
Modernized existing WordPress website, Nov. 2018, https://www.elevationpt.com/.
Swanson Inn
Mad River Valley Vermont Bed & Breakfast
WordPress site launched 10/26/18, https://swansoninn.com/
Mad River Post + Beam
Mad River Valley Timber Framer
Converted to WordPress 8/30/18, https://www.madriverpostandbeam.com/
WordPress vs. Custom CMS
A client recently shared their concern that WordPress with WooCommerce might not be a sufficient platform to support their own growth. A bit of research yielded the following sampling of robust WordPress websites.
Winning WP summarizes a list of WooCommerce sites, noting it’s been estimated “WooCommerce now powers over a staggering 30% of all active eCommerce sites.” Understand that any of the sites mentioned can change at any time.
Better yet, let WooCommerce users tell you themselves in the showcase.
A few non-eCommerce sites worth noting display WordPress’ utility:
BBC America the site, and rationale explained in a case study: “Being a part of the WordPress and open source community in general has allowed us to accomplish things that could have only happened with great difficulty if we had to build another proprietary CMS.”
Small Dollar Pricing Discussion, DNS and Email
Mad River Web provides some clients with the minimal services of DNS only or DNS and domain email without website hosting or development. Support for small dollar items can consume a significant amount of time and is more easily absorbed when we have the website business as well. Sometimes the reason for the minimal services is because a client has shifted some services away from MRW.
Whatever the reason, we thought it would be helpful to provide the benchmark for related pricing (see pricing here). Gmail domain name accounts are $5 or $10 per month, same price or more. Email without a website includes DNS (which is the programming that leads people to the various parts of service such as email and website) so that is why our pricing is more for the first email account.
Alternatively, you could take over your own domain registration and save $50, but then you would have to attend to that management. Coaching people on how to leave my service is not included as you might anticipate, but I do take the appropriate technical actions to assist in a transfer, an industry-standard courtesy.
Heidi’s Treasures
Unique Custom Jewelry Featuring Pearls and other Gemstones
WordPress site, eCommerce ready, launched 4/30/18, HeidisTreasures.com
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