Site Launch: Greenwich House Music School Annual Benefit Gala

We just put together a site for the Greenwich House Music School’s Annual Benefit Show.  Located in Greenwich Village, NYC, the school seeks to provide affordable music lessons and scholarships for kids of all races, creeds and orientations.  It’s a fun place to learn music.

Here’s a link to the site as it appears on our server:

http://www.traversecitywebdesign.com/GREENWICH-HOUSE/index.html

They had such great promotional material, we wanted to keep the rest of the site simple, so we focused on ease of navigation and replicating the great color scheme.

It’s neon!

Site Launch: TraverseCityLodging.Com

We recently launched a new site for Summerside Properties here in Traverse City.  They own 5 hotels and were looking for a way to pull them together under website.  Kind of a launching pad.  They wanted something anonymous that was branded more with the area than with their logo, so we snapped a picture of Lake Michigan and incorporated it into the header.

We then focused on making a site that read more like a hotel guide than a corporate brochure.  We kept everything very simply with lots of text so that it would rocket up into search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.  Here’s the home page of the site:

http://www.traversecitylodging.com

If you’re interested in what we can do for your company, contact us.

New Client: United Way of Northwest Michigan

Traverse City Web Design is proud to announce it will be building a new website for the Traverse City United Way.  Construction will start this June with an Estimated August launch date.

Here’s a link to their current site.

http://www.unitedway.tcnet.org/

The United Way is a great civic organization.  They provide for all kinds of volunteer opportunities across Northern Michigan.  If you, or your company or your school, are looking for ways to help to the environment, help other people, or just ways to show you care, get ahold of them.

United Way of Northwest Michigan : PH. 231-947-3200

New Client: Summerside Properties

We’re going to be doing a number of sites for Traverse City Hoteliers Summerside Properties.

They own five hotels in the area and are looking to expand the reach of their marketing when their new hotel, Cambria Suites, opens in TC.   We’re happy to help them increase their business online.

Site Launch: Mealtickets.Com

We just launched a new site for local marketing mavens Mealtickets.Com.  You’ll see their promotional cards all over Traverse City and the surrounding areas.

We worked closely with Meal Tickets to come up with a dynamic site that was simple to update and followed the design of their past site.  This new site features a dynamic photogallery and a blog that Mealtickets can update, with the headlines appearing automatically on the home page.  This helps keep the site fresh and helps it rank higher in search engines like Google. 

We also put a dynamic slideshow on the front of the site to highlight some of the great local testimonials MealTickets had in their files.

Visit the site at: http://www.mealtickets.com

New Site by Traverse City Web Design

Site Launch: BillyStritch.Com

We just designed, created and launched a new site for legendary pianist and music director, BillyStritch.

You can see the site here: http//www.billystritch.com

Billy Stritch is a Grammy-Winning composer, famous musical director, and incomparable performer. You can find out more about him at - http://www.billystritch.com/Billy-Stritch-Bio.html.

Here’s some pictures of the site we made.

Here’s the page we made to sell Billy’s latest Mel Torme CD.

Site Launch: Trauma Flintstone

We recently launched the website for famed underground performer, singer and drag queen Trauma Flintstone.   Here’s a picture of the site:

http://www.traumaflintstone.com/ While your at it, you can download a couple free desktop wallpapers:

http://www.traumaflintstone.com/Images/wallpaper/Trauma-Portrait-Wallpaper.jpg

http://www.traumaflintstone.com/Images/wallpaper/Trauma-Smoking.jpg

New Partner: Epsilon Energy

We’ve recently partnered up with Traverse City oil exploration company Epsilon Energy to deliver a new website that combines a spartan aesthetic with a a re-imagining of the future.

Visit their current website at EpsilonEnergyLtd.Com

Their new look will modernize their website, as well as help legitimize them as a new company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.   While optimized for search engines, the site will focus more on shareholder and owner information.

Check back for more information on what promises to be a stunning website.

New Partner: Meal Tickets & Unusual Ideas

We’ve recently teamed up with Meal Tickets & Unusual Ideas to give them a new site that brings together new ideas they have about their company, as well as gives them more control over the updating of the site.

Meal Tickets has an ‘in house’ design expert.  We’re happy to take her graphics, designs, and ideas and help mold them into a site that’s highly functional, represents their company, does well in search engines, and isn’t to hard on the eyes.

Look for the new site at Mealtickets.Com on April 1st, 2008.

Site Makeover: The Sassy Sandwich

The Sassy Sandwich features some of the best coffee in Traverse City, and if you stay to drink it, you can get it in a great, heavy mug. Plus, with their being located in Copper Ridge Plaze - high above Traverse City - the views can’t be beat.

We we’re called in to give their site a makeover. We tighted up the design, splashed on some vibrant colors, and did a little behind the scenes tinkering to make the site more search engine friendly.

Visit the Sassy Sandwich.com.

Sassy Sandwich Old Site: The Before Picture

Sassy Sandwich New Site: The After Picture

Contact Us To Design Your Website.

Site Makeover: Pop-kies.com

Gourmet popcorn in Traverse City has never looked so good. Local popcorn pundits, Pop-kies, called us in to update their e-commerce engine with new popcorn flavors, get them better results in search engines and give their site a makeover.

With a little spit and polish we were able to do just that. Take a look at the before and after shots below to see some of the improvements we made. Then be sure to visit the site and order some exoticly flavored popcorn.

Click here to visit Pop-kies.com

Popkies Old Site: The Before Picture

Popkies NEW Site: The After Picture

Contact Us To Build Your Site.

ray@traversecitywebdesign.com

News: TCWD to Present eCommerce Seminar at Traverse City Chamber of Commerce

We’re very excited to announce we’ve been selected as presenters for Traverse City Chamber of Commerce’ 2008 Business and Education Series.

Here’s a link to the homepage.

The Traverse City Chamber of Commerce has been a great resource for us, both in generating lots of business and in letting use their facility for meetings. We’re happy to help out in their Business and Education Series. This will be the third presentation we’ve given. The first was about the basics of creating a website. The second was about marketing websites on the internet to build traffic and get more exposure. This new presentation will be specifically about eCommerce.

The presentations are EARLY in morning, and we cover alot of material in the hour and a half presentation (we even have cool transparencies), so be sure to have coffee before you come. . .and come loaded with questions.
I think it’s under $20 and our last presentation sold out, so get your ticket early!!!

Our presentation is March 19, 2008.

Site Launch: The One, The Only Magnificent Me

We just finished up a charming little website for Mackinac Island Press’ new children book, “The One, The Only Magnificent Me.” The book was written by Grammy-winning singer Dan Haseltine and shares a great message for kids of all ages. Be sure to visit the site here:

TheMagnificentMe.Com

New Partner: Popkies

Traverse City Web Design is happy to announce a new partnership with Popkies gourmet popcorn store located on Front Street in Traverse City, Michigan.

Visit their site at Pop-kies.com.

We’ve done alot of updating their online store and will also be giving their site a face lift. Look for their new and improved website early this Spring.

New Partner: Cerise Nutraceuticals

We’re very happy to announce that we’ve recently partnered with Traverse City based Cerise Nutraceuticals, makers of homeopathic cherry medicines, to create a new, e-commerce website for their business. Look for a new site at CherryLotion.Com early this spring.

Site Launch: Mackinac Island Press

We’re happy to announce the launch of MackinacIslandPress.Com. Located in Traverse City Michigan, Mackinac Island Press publishes children’s book a wide variety of subjects, representing a diverse group of authors like Tracy Gallup, Anne Lewis, Dan Haseltine, Paleo Joe and Buckwilder.

Visit their site here: MackinacIslandPress.com.

We used the shopping cart software Avactis to give them a robust E-commerce back-end that not only allows for full customization of the shopping cart, shipping tables and online promotions, but also gave us the freedom to integrate the store into a design created by their in-house art director, Tom Mills.

The new store solved many navigation issue plaguing their old site and makes it easier for shoppers to find what they’re looking for.

They noticed a very substantial increase in sales for the 2007 holiday season through their new website.

Site Launch: Billy Stritch, World Famous Jazz Pianist

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of a new site we designed and built for world famous jazz pianist, Billy Stritch.

Billystritch.com

Billy is Liza Minnelli’s musical director (and Christine Ebersole’s, and Stephanie J. Block’s…the list goes on), and is currently performing for her world tour. The launch party for the site and Billy’s new CD is at the world famous Birdland jazz club in New York City on February 18th.

“We designed Billy’s site based on the beautiful cover for his new album, Billy Stritch Sings Mel Torme,” says Traverse City Web Design co-founder, Kate Botello. “We also wanted to make sure that there was easy access to Billy’s work and performances and tried to make it very easy to purchase the CD.

We also took the time to create the 30 second audio clips for the album using the most representative parts of the songs rather than the first 30 seconds of the intro. This way you really get to hear what the songs are all about.”

Visit the Schedule page of BillyStritch.com to find out when and where you can look for Billy Stritch performing with some of the world’s most talented people in a city near you.

Billystritch.com

Site Launch: Matrix Group Financial Services in Traverse City

Traverse City Web Design is happy to announce the completion and launch of MatrixFinancialService.Com.

“We focused on a text heavy site that would perform well in search engines,” said TC Web Design co-founder, Ray Weigel. “We also decided to go with wood-toned colors that purvey a feeling of solidity, as well as associate the site with Northern Michigan.”

MatrixFinancialService.Com