Lewes Dairy

The family-run company Lewes Dairy is best known for its old-fashioned ways of producing some of the freshest milk, cream and egg nog found anywhere. As long as there’s a market for fresh, local product, Chip Brittingham, President of Lewes Dairy, says he believes the Lewes Dairy will continue to operate into its fifth, sixth and seventh generations and beyond.

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Jennicide: Jennifer Leigh

Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh is a professional poker player, Playboy May 2008 model, FHM Model, and a native of Delaware. At the young age of 24 she’s made quite a name for herself on the national circuit. Her website features a full content management system and powerful ecommerce platform.

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Bling Salon & Spa

Bling Salon’s located in Lewes, Delaware is the brand new salon from stylist veterans Jessica Blakeman and T.J. Seeney. There is no better place to get your haircut than Bling Salon’s, as they feature professional stylists, vibrating chairs (so when you get your hair washed, your back is massaged), beverages, and a full spa service. The secret to my killer hair? Bling Salon’s. No one else touches this, baby.

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Hotel Blue

Hotel Blue is redefining luxury in historic Lewes. “Blue” is an inspired fusion of coastal Victorian, contemporary design and first class amenities. Sixteen suites and rooms offering lush surroundings with a modern twist.

With original art by local artists, ice buckets that change colors, sinks that glow and mirrors that come alive, whimsy and surprise abound in Delaware’s first ‘Boutique’ Hotel. Tucked between the main street and the bay, Hotel Blue provides contemporary, European accommodations for adults…Each (room) offers a tile fireplace, flat screen TVs, fancy stereos, Frette® robes, original local art, small refrigerator and a clear ice bucket akin to a lava lamp that changes hues from ruby to sapphire to gold. The most surprising splash of color lights up the huge bath - transparent double sinks have blue lights strung underneath them…From the lobby’s cream and indigo leather sofas to the rooftop pool and fireplace, the 16-room inn exudes cool.

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Tom Brown did a revamp of his wife’s website late last year and has recently been featured on Design Meltdown, one of (if not the) biggest sites on the internet for the web design / development industry. He was pretty proud the day he completed it as it works in all major browsers.

Our sites have found their way onto this site before and hopefully the ones we have in the pipeline will make it on up to Design Meltdown as well.

Link to Article: http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/FlowerPower/

Link to Anita’s Garden: http://www.anitasgarden.com/

A cut above the rest.

RSS is one of my favorite technologies on the internet. It allows me to quickly gain and overview of the newest articles at my favorite sites like CNN, Tech-Crunch, Digg, Slashdot and others. Today is RSS Awareness Day.

What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content.

From this, I can access these news feeds at any time from my PC, iPod Touch, or Treo. I am able to stay informed of the days news as it happens, without all the distraction or clutter of advertisements, slow websites, snarky comments and the like.

Back in 2005 5% of the Internet users said they were using RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online (according to the Pew Internet Project).

Feedburner recently reported that they track around 60 million RSS subscribers. Even if we bump that number to 70 million RSS users (counting people that use RSS with other applications or platforms) this would still convert to a meager 5,4% of the Internet users around the world, as of today.

What is the takeaway message? Only a very small percentage of the Internet population is aware of the RSS format and its benefits, and that number is growing slowly over time.

By creating the RSS Awareness Day and celebrating it every year we should be able to get the general public exposed to this format, hopefully increasing the usage of RSS feeds and related applications among Internet users.

More information: http://rssday.org/spread/

Some of the best examples of using RSS feeds to enhance your productivity and general ‘awareness’ of whats going on can best be experienced on a ‘Start Page’ site like Netvibes or PageFlakes. You can add multiple RSS feeds to your page and view many at once, instead of crawl through each site individually, which would take a lot longer. This way you get a bigger overall picture and can zero in on the news stories that pique your interest rather quickly.

Headquartered in Dover, Delaware, George & Lynch currently employs over 360 construction professionals specializing in a wide variety of heavy, infrastructure related construction services. Celebrating 85 years in business, George & Lynch is more than a familiar company name. The firm has become a major infrastructure contractor in the Mid-Atlantic region and on the East Coast. With a nationally recognized commitment to safety and recently named as the “Best in the Business” for the Delaware construction industry, owners can rest assured that their site construction needs, underground utilities and paving projects are in good hands.

When they needed to completely overhaul their website design and corporate image, they needed the right tool for the job. They came right to Inclind. We provided them with our robust Content Management System with a fresh new design to meet their expectations.

In addition to a transformation of the website design, the redeveloped website includes several additional new sections of content including information on specific projects. It will be much easier to make changes and updates any page of this new website with the included backend intranet branded as Inclind CMS. This content management system will also include a tool to post news releases and a tool to manage employee events. This Inclind product is really a valuable advancement that allows companies like George & Lynch to make adjustments to their website themselves instantly and effortlessly. This is an enormous breakthrough from their previous website, and only Inclind Delaware web design can offer such tools.

Full search engine optimization capabilities were implemented as well so anyone looking for the services George & Lynch offers can find them easily in any major search engine. Inclind’s web applications allow for very organic search engine methods to be executed by the user, and our web applications are intelligent enough to manage this without any interaction at all. Our adherance to strict web standards allows us to deliver websites that are accessible in any major browser equally, reaching a wider audience than their old website could.

“We have enjoyed working with Inclind, and look forward to working on other projects in the future.” says Dave McGuigan, George & Lynch’s Vice President of Business Development.

Thanks to Tom Brown for helping me change some parts of the blog layout today. I found an avatar I used years ago just the other day, and wanted to use it because it looks a lot like me. In 15 minutes he redrew it in Adobe Illustrator (so it could be vectorized and resized, retaining scale quality). Size it to the right height and poof, there I am in the top left corner. I also made a favicon and added a background gradient so the site feels a little more 3d than just the flat color it came with. I like this. I plan to make some more visual changes when I get some more free time.

Go here to see more of Tom Brown’s work or here to see Kevin’s personal site.