Lisa Eldon owns the City Beach Pharmacy, and we recently had the pleasure of assisting in launching a new website with her.

As more and more people use local search terms, the importance of strong local search rankings for small business is only going to increase.

I am seeing an increasing amount of interest from small business in promoting themselves on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. But social medial tools work best when they work together with a strong business website, and for most of our clients I recommend they get their website in order before considering investing time into social media.

On 17th October Subiaco will get to experience the Subi Farmers Market. There is a mouth watering array of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy produce on offer, as well as coffee, gourmet tea, juices, tasty Malaysian and Indian curries … you get the idea.

The organisation that has gone into the launch of the markets is incredible – all of the 35 stalls are sold out, and everything is lined up for a bumper launch day.

We’ve been working with Nick Melidonis and Denis Glennon recently helping to launch their Icon PHOTO 09 photography competition – entries opened today.

Icon PHOTO 09 Photography Competition

The entry process integrates custom uploading of images and size checking, PayPal payments and integration with a CampaignMonitor mailing list.

Recently we’ve helped launch a new website for Mark Greenland of Greenland Legal.

The graphic designer for this site was Tracy Graffin, and once again she has produced a design that is elegant, simple and distinctive.

James had to code a few new settings for our image rotator plugin to achieve the visual effects – no use of Adobe Flash required.

Joint Pain Relief website

This is a site that shares a lot of information that we have come to learn while on life’s journey. And we certainly hope it will be a lot of use to other parents.

We’ve recently welcomed Sarah Wiin on board, Sarah is a physiotherapist who also focuses on Feldenkrais in Perth (Western Australia, not Scotland of course!)

Sarah is using a few WordPress plugins to help her physiotherapy practice along, including:

• an Event Calendar to publicise the dates and contents of her courses
• her blog, to talk about aspects of Feldenkrais
• a PayPal shopping cart (to receive payments for her courses)

She is also starting to ask her clients about contributing their stories about Feldenkrais. With the incredible interest we have seen in stories of eye loss (published by Paul and Jenny Geelen), I’m sure the stories will also prove to be of great value to people.