Author: Sonja Ray

  • Charlotte Harbor Sailing

    Charlotte Harbor Sailing

    Charlotte Harbor Sailing offers sailing lessons and captained sailing charters out of Charlotte Harbor. They needed a site to showcase photos and vidoes from past sails and to present a variety of fees for different types of lessons and charters. Because the site is built using WordPress, they are able to edit prices and other…

  • Sandra Sells Real Estate

    Sandra Sells Real Estate

    Sandra Rubinstein, a Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway, needed to combine into one site her own site and the blog she had through a third-party real estate blogging service. We customized a WordPress theme to look like the existing site, incorporated the MLS search and listing display functionality, and included WordPress’s built-in blogging capability to bring…

  • Belknap College

    Belknap College

    The Belknap College site is a labor of love by Belknap alumnu Jim Mulligan. Belknap College, a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire, closed down years ago, and Jim wanted a way to stay in touch with classmates across the years. The site makes use of the BBPress plugin for WordPress to incorporate a…

  • Association of Pretrial Professionals of Florida

    The APPF needed a site that they could maintain themselves and give several different people access to the site to make updates and additions. They wanted to make use of WordPress’s blogging capabilities to post news & announcements for members, job vacancies, and training information, and they also wanted to give their members access to…

  • Papol’s Property Management

    Papol’s Property Management

    For websites that need to be developed under a strict budget, WordPress makes it easy to set up a functional and usable site with minimal time and therefore minimal fees. Papol’s Premium Property Management needed a small website and had a small budget for it. Install WordPress, install a favorite theme, create the pages, and…

  • Interior Plant Scapes

    Interior Plant Scapes

    Interior Plant Scapes needed a lush, vibrant-looking site to reflect the living vibrance of the plants they provide to their clients. The site offers in-place before-and-after photos of client locations before IPS and after IPS. The different is stunning. Separate sections showcase the company’s interior scapes, sidewalk scapes, pool & pation scapes, and event scapes.…

  • Punta Gorda Yacht Brokers

    Punta Gorda Yacht Brokers

    Punta Gorda Yacht Brokers, a local used boat brokerage, needed a refresh from their previous site, which was also created by Tropical Web Works. We designed a fresh new visual design that incorporate the same content from the original site. The site includes prominent links to the brokerage’s sister company, Gulf Island Sails, as well…

  • Lyn Bevis, Realtor

    Lyn Bevis, Realtor

    The Bevis Group — Lyn Bevis and his team at RE/MAX Harbor Realty — needed a modernized website offering visitors the ability to Lyn’s own listings, to search the MLS, and to showcase recently listed properties throughout Charlotte County. They also had specific rquirements, needing the site to match their printed marketing materials. The site…

  • Sailboat Home Listings

    Sailboat Home Listings

    We had already developed Chuck Eichner’s primary real estate site, but in addition he wanted a specialty niche real estate site that focused specifically on local homes with sailboat access to Charlotte Harbor. Punta Gorda Isles and other waterfront communities in the area have homes on canals that either don’t lead to the harbor, or…

  • Don’t Fall For The AdWord Express Scam

    Don’t Fall For The AdWord Express Scam

    AdWord Express — not to be confused with Google’s AdWords Express — sent me a spam the other day touting their “exclusive top placement” service to put my site at the top of “ALL MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES.” They actually guarantee that my site will appear above all other sites on every search engine for my…

  • The Cardillo Group

    The Cardillo Group

    This real estate site combines blogging and real estate MLS listings for an effective visitor experience. Visitors can browse or search real estate listings (pulled from the IDX feed from the local MLS service) and keep up with local news and activities. Showcasing property listings by homes, condos and land in a selection of local…

  • Peace River Dog Fanciers

    Peace River Dog Fanciers

    Peace River Dog Fanciers was another pro bono project. I have served on the club’s Board of Directors for several years and I also act as the group’s Webmaster. One of my first actions was to rebuild the site from scratch using WordPress; the old site was created using an old Microsoft online sitebuilder that…