Bring Your Date Home!

As Facebook expands their reach, launching a geographic platform ( Facebook Places) to compete with foursquare, it raises once again the question – Is Facebook All You Need? With custom fan pages, the simple user interface, the ability to take messages viral, why do you even need your own blog or web site? The Answer … Control!! While Facbook is an amazing tool, it is their tool, not yours. It is their game, their rules, and they can change the rules any time. This message was hammered home to me in several different presentations at BlogIndidana last week. After...

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WordPress 3.0 – The Platform for Web Development

About two years ago, Roundpeg made a switch from traditional HTML web design to WordPress for several reasons: It was easier to design in WordPress, so we could turn projects faster, and at a lower price for our small business clients WordPress was easy for the clients to update on their own.  This allowed us to give each small business owner we worked with the skill and tools they needed to control their web presence WordPress is SEO smart – The built-in tools present information to Google and other search engines in a format they can easily translate for their purposes . The result...

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A Tale of Two Websites

We recently had an interesting challenge: to design “sister sites” for two related but separate companies: Polaris Property Management and a blog for Polaris Real Estate. For Polaris Property Management, it was a redesign of their existing site, but the blog is meant to compliment danbaldini.com, the existing site for Polaris Real Estate. At first glance, the pages don’t look so different. They share a similar simple style, and clean style, along with Taylor’s great banner artwork. However, the content and function of the sites are very different. The Polaris Manage...

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Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat Redesign

Over the past few weeks, the entire Roundpeg team has been working on a redesign of the website for “Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat.” As most people know, Paul is a popular and well-known public figure here in Indiana, so much so that he’s known unofficially as “Indiana’s weatherman.” The redesign was fun and challenging as we worked toward a finished project which would effectively display all of the content in a manner which did not overwhelm the visitor.  Finding the right theme was the toughest part of the redesign.  There were so many elements, and...

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Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat Redesign

Over the past few weeks, the entire Roundpeg team has been working on a redesign of the website for “Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat.” As most people know, Paul is a popular and well-known public figure here in Indiana, so much so that he’s known unofficially as “Indiana’s weatherman.” The redesign was fun and challenging as we worked toward a finished project which would effectively display all of the content in a manner which did not overwhelm the visitor.  Finding the right theme was the toughest part of the redesign.  There were so many elements, and...

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