Regional web development company Inclind Inc announces the launch of a brand new website this week for DJ Hook of Hook Productions of Bethany Beach, Delaware.Randy Vanderhook (DJ Hook) grew up with an ear for music. He joined the school band in elementary school on drums and continued with them on up through high school marching band for Indian River High School. When he had a chance to guest DJ he jumped at the opportunity and has enjoyed every minute of it since then, and Hook Productions was born.

With a huge library of thousands and thousands of songs (over 60,000!), DJ Hook prides himself on being one of the best DJ’s on Delmarva. Most DJ’s quit learning after figuring out how to hook up their system to a PA (public address speaker system) and still carry around bags and bags of CDs and large heavy rack based rigs. DJ Hook is constantly researching new techniques and using the most cutting edge hardware available, such as a computer based setup with a digital catalogue (making his setup far more compact and smaller than competitors).

DJ Hook has played numerous places in the Newark, DE area including Klondike Kate’s, Kid Shellie’s and East End. He has also performed at many popular hang outs in the beach area including Harpoon Hanna’s, the Chalkboard, Mackey’s, Fagers Island, High Stakes, Mickey’s Family Crab House, Brew River, Magnolia’s, Lifeguard competitions and many other private events such as weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties, corporate events and much more.Their new website (www.hookproductions.net) running on Inclind’s content management system allows Hook Productions to easily update the public on availability with their event calendar and lay out the booking process in detail. The calendar also shows public appearances DJ Hook makes, so you can attend events he will be DJ’ing at like Harpoon Hanna’s famous deck parties in the summer.

To learn more about how DJ Hook can cater your next event, please visit their website at www.hookproductions.net or call (302)-757-HOOK (4665). For more information on custom website development, please contact Inclind Inc. at (302) 856-2802 or online at www.inclind.com.

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Perl or Python). Used together, they represent the most popular and most powerful form of web servers and website hosting.

All of our websites are hosted on LAMP servers, even Adobe Coldfusion based websites (where normally Coldfusion Server is best set for a Windows Server environment).

Why should your website be LAMP powered (or at least hosted on Linux)? Read on »

The benefits of running on LAMP are monumental versus a Windows Server. Response time, stability, and uptime all increase tenfold on a Linux server, such as Fedora Core 9, CentOS 5 or RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). A Windows based server running IIS (Internet Information Services) most likely sees a reboot at least once a month or more, as its memory and CPU usage pale in comparison to a Linux operating system. Over time, Windows’ resource mismanagement causes system degradation. Even home users are aware of this phenomenon with a Windows machine. After 6 months on a new PC, it doesn’t feel so new anymore, and generally feels sluggish and worse as time progresses (without preventative care and maintenance of course). Taking user operator error out of the picture, a Linux server could run for a year or more without the need for a reboot, update, or upgrade. More uptime percentage for you, less downtime for clients and potential customers on your website. Whatever you throw at Linux, it can handle.

MySQL Database server is extremely popular, powerful and free used on massive websites like Digg, Slashdot, Suzuki, YouTube, Wordpress, Google, Yahoo!, and most Web 2.0 applications. Being open source grants the additional benefit of a large user community dedicated to making it even better as well as patching any exploits that may arise far quicker than a giant like Microsoft. Other technologies like Windows SQL Server are proprietary, closed source and can cost thousands. It also locks you into Sysbase-db type, where MySQL gives you a handful of database formats to pick from (InnoDB, MyISAM, Berkeley, etc). There are many case studies available that detail why MySQL is better than the ‘big dogs’ of data management. Again, speed, reliability, and response time are key here, and is a reason why MySQL is extremely popular.

Apache HTTP provides lightening quick request handling and a slew of features. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. Apache is also designed to work with a wide range of languages by directly incorporating the language interpreter into the Apache environment. This significantly speeds up the execution of dynamic components for languages like PHP, Perl, and Python, thus making your website faster than on other systems. It can also be run under Linux or Windows, where IIS is Windows only, thus locking you to Windows Server should you want to use IIS. Click here for a more detailed comparison. Tighter security? Check. A properly configured Apache / Linux server can keep anything out. Maybe even water.

So, what are you running on? Thinking about switching?

Inclind, Inc offers full IT Services and consulting for a wide array of technologies including Linux operating systems, Windows operating systems, Windows Server, Exchange, network administration, PBX and Asterisk phone systems, IP based phone systems, databases, server management performance tweaking, PHP web applications, Coldfusion web applications and more.

For more information call us today at 302-856-2802.

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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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.

Imagine – Imagine, a cosmetic boutique located in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, services clients with their expert makeup services in multiple industries.

Rehoboth Lodging – RehobothLodging.com is the one-stop shop for all your hotel and vacation needs in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and Bethany Beach, Delaware! Our goal is to provide you with the best deals at the top hotels located in Delaware’s most popular beach destinations! The RehobothLodging.com website provides you with a wealth of information about Southern Delaware and all the tools necessary to help you make an informed decision about your lodging choices at the beach.

Grand Rental Station – Grand Rental Station of Rehoboth Beach Delaware started serving the beach areas of Southern Delaware in 1987. The owner-operated, year-round business of 20 years is known for friendly customer service. Expanding niche categories such as audio/visual, baby/guest, and games has helped us meet the growing demand of renting versus buying. We like helping you solve problems, enjoy your time in the area, plan for the perfect wedding, or just have fun with our games. Our knowledgeable staff, prompt delivery, quality rental equipment, and friendly customer service will make your rental experience a pleasant one. So, if you live at the beach, vacation at the Delaware beach, or meet at the beach for business, just call or stop in and give Grand Rental Station a try, they’ll treat you right!

Atlantic Millwork – Founded in 1991, Atlantic Millwork has provided the Delmarva Peninsula’s premier builders with quality building materials. However, supplying quality material on a timely basis is only part of the process. Atlantic Millwork has an established reputation for customer services before, during and after the sale. Atlantic Millwork is the perferred choice for building materials by hundreds of residential and commercial contractors on the Eastern Shore.

Atlantic Cabinetry – Atlantic Cabinetry provides builders and homeowners with several lines of fine manufactured products such as cabinets, countertops, sinks and hardware. Don’t forget: our custom shop can make bars, entertainment centers, mantles, window seats and other non-standard projects that fit your specific needs.

Bryce Lingo & Shaun Tull – With over thirty-five years combined experience Bryce and Shaun have seen every turn in the market and they believe success is earned through creating and maintaining long-term relationships with clients. Both Bryce and Shaun find their work to be extremely rewarding as they help facilitate one of life’s biggest decisions …buying or selling a home. They bring a strong work ethic, dedication and determination to everyone that they come in contact with and have built their reputation upon these values, which is why they are confident that they will continue their record of success into the future. Bryce Lingo and Shaun Tull have created brycelingo.com and shauntull.com to provide you with easy access to the Sussex County MLS listings.

Friday calls, its time to go.

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.

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.

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

Kitty’s LTD

Kitty’s Ltd. features distinctive gifts, folk-art, collectibles and high quality crafts. Many products are one-of-a-kind originals and limited edition handcrafted items by American artisans. Made in the USA is our specialty.

Inspiring seasonal products are often created of vintage fabric with unique handwork, painting and craftsmanship. Specialty home accents and accessories offer a nostalgic charm not available in most shops today. These are displayed in each room of a home setting. Kitty’s LTD has been a client of Inclind for a very long time, and their new website gives them a new face for 2008. Powered by Inclind Commerce, Kitty’s LTD is able to sell products online, send mailers, and manage store catalogue/inventory easily. The website receives hits and orders from around the country.

Nage

Dedicated to Passion for Food, the Pursuit of Fun, and Enjoyable Dining; Nage provides a Feast for the Senses. Known as a “Local’s Favorite,” Nage Rehoboth Beach continues to focus on creative foods while familiar and friendly faces take care of all of your needs.

With two locations, one in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and one in Washington, D.C., Nage has made a name for itself over the years, known for its excellent cuisine, service, and quality. Nage is powered by Inclind CMS, which lets the restaurant managers easily update the sites menus, pricing, and web pages. They can also add photos that instantly appear in the flash slideshow on the homepage, showcasing their delicious food in beautiful presentation. Inclind highly recommends having a night out to Nage; its an experience you won’t soon forget.

If you don’t have an intranet, extranet, commerce application, CMS (content management system) or CRM (customer / contact relationship management system) we can also help you get started. What are you waiting for! Contact us (302-856-2802) for more information.

http://www.visitsoutherndelaware.com

Another beautiful, well designed, fluid website by Inclind. Southern Delaware Tourism runs off of our Inclind CMS (content management system) platform so the staff can quickly manage their website. Our advanced CMS allows them to control every element on the page, except for the design, giving them absolute control of the content. A robust media manager allows them to manage, organize, and share documents and photos, as well as control the banners on the website. On top of that, they can manage and review contacts (much like an address book in Outlook) and mailing lists and manage an event calendar.

Also, we had an opportunity to launch a new product / add-on with the website.

I’m excited at this website launch (like many) because it marks the first client to employ the use of the blog platform I developed in Coldfusion. It is integrated fully with our CMS (Content Management System) so everything is usable from one central interface. Also, it looks killer. On the left hand side of the site, you will see a button below the calendar that says Southern Delaware Blog. This is the area where the blog is.

If you don’t have an intranet, extranet, CMS (content management system) or CRM (customer / contact relationship management system) we can also help you get started with that. Contact us (302-856-2802) for more information.

Versoning

You won’t have to patch up and keep your blog up to date. We do that. For example with Wordpress, its up to you to keep it patched, updated, and functioning. The user shouldn’t be bothered with doing that. It’s tedious, you can make mistakes and lose data, or overwrite your layout. Don’t chance it.

Security and Vulnerability

Open source languages such as PHP tend to have more security loopholes and exploits in it than a closed source one like Coldfusion, which this blog platform is based off of. One reason why other platforms like Typepad, Wordpress and others are getting updated a few times a month is because exploits, cross site scripting hacks, and other security issues are detected. If you fall behind on updating your core files for these blogs, you may fall victim to a security exploit yourself. The end result is usually losing control of your site due to these hacks.

With us, this won’t happen.

As a user of many systems, I feel we can provide the best solution for you in the end. We build our applications from the ground up according to YOUR needs, instead of giving you a huge application and saying to use just a few parts. If you don’t have an intranet, extranet, CMS (content management system) or CRM (customer / contact relationship management system) we can also help you get started with that. Contact us (302-856-2802) for more information.