Tag: CMS

  • Earthkeepers II promote energy conservation

    Earthkeepers II promote energy conservation

    Earthkeepers II is an environmental initiative of the interfaith community in northern Michigan that now has a professional logo and website. I recently had the honor of designing their identity and giving them an official home on the web. Earthkeepers II consists of ten faith traditions involving 250 faith communities in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They…

  • Che Bello Boutique expands business with online shop

    Che Bello Boutique expands business with online shop

    Che Bello Boutique is a locally owned men & women’s clothing boutique located in beautiful downtown Marquette, Michigan. The boutique carries a variety of new trendy affordable junior, women and men’s clothing, as well as accessories. To reach a broader market with an online shop, Che Bello recently had an e-commerce website designed and developed…

  • Papa Crow Redesign

    Papa Crow Redesign

    Papa Crow, a.k.a. Jeff Krebs, hails from the beautiful south shore of Lake Superior. He crafts thoughtful and fun music for kids and families. After starting his own family, he dove headfirst into children’s music and decided to make his own album. In 2011, “Things That Roar” was released. This was his debut album of…

  • Aaron Kippola shares his musical endeavors

    Aaron Kippola is a multi-talented musician who is known for his saxophone, guitar, drums, and more. He is currently working on several self-produced albums on which he sings and plays most of the instruments. Several years ago, I designed a logo for him and began work on his Album Covers. I also created a simple…

  • How To Blog: Topic Tips

    It can seem daunting at times, but it’s very important to learn how to blog effectively by choosing better topics to write about. Do you suffer from writer’s block and have difficulty generating ideas? Or have you experienced information overload and just couldn’t seem to narrow down your ideas? It happens to all of us…

  • How to Blog: For Beginners

    This post will help you learn how to blog. So, you finally have your own blog. Now what? You’ve been anxiously awaiting the moment, and now that you have the ability to share your thoughts with the entire world, you can’t think of anything to say. Maybe you feel intimidated by the whole concept of…

  • Dead River has a pretty good cup of coffee

    I’m very pleased to announce the roll out of an e-commerce website for Dead River Coffee. They are located downtown Marquette, Michigan and are the area’s premiere coffee roasters. Go ahead, ask anybody. For years, the only way to get your hands on their fresh roasted coffee beans was to drive down to their shop…

  • Dynamic Content: Why it’s Essential

    There are many reasons to have dynamic content on your website, but the two most important are to increase traffic and to increase sales. Dynamic content will drive traffic to your site by helping give you a better ranking in search engine results. It can drive sales (assuming you’re selling something) or conversions by giving…

  • Knee Deep in WordPress

    In case you haven’t heard, WordPress is a personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL. In other words, it allows your site to be a dynamic, database-driven organism. So rather than having a couple static HTML pages sitting there getting dusty, your site can be built with PHP modules which can be combined in…

  • Major site redesign

    Wow, it’s been almost two years since the last major site redesign here at Middle Ear Media. A lot has happened since then. It might take a couple days to get everything in order, but I just couldn’t wait any longer. I went with a whole new look for the site, but I plan on…