Inclind has launched two new websites this week.

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.

It’s been a little while since I’ve written, we’re really busy as of late. Personally, I have been reading a lot of books which has taken me off the internet most weeknights. I’ll detail that later on my own website.

http://www.designmeltdown.com/chapters/GotWood/Part4.aspx

Second row of thumbnails, #2. Bayball Classic has been part of a recent feature on Design Meltdown, one of the biggest graphic design websites on the internet. Every few weeks the authors select a handful of sites from the internet and feature them as part of their theme article. “Got Wood?” features a classic design element of using wood as a major design piece. Bayball Classic, a website for a local basketball tournament, has a hardwood court background that fills the site. Even though the site is a year old, its still one of my favorite designs here.

“Interesting how we can read into the people behind a site based on such a simple element isn’t it? Just serves to show that you have to think things through. Your saying something about yourself with every design decisions you make.” - From Design Meltdown

Inclind, Inc. definitely makes a statement with every design, website, and web application we make.

Contact us (302-856-2802) for more information.

They just can’t get enough of us at DesignSnack.com!

The last FOUR submitted websites are now on the frontpage of approved featured websites. Espuma Restaurant, Delaware State Fair, Wilgus Associates - Delaware Real Estate, and BayBall Classic were well received.

More to come!

Update on the blog I posted a few days ago. Inclind sites are making the rounds on various design showcase websites.

American Portable, and CKY Alliance are now being featured on various websites, including designsnack.com and screenalicious.com.

It feels great that our clients websites make the rounds like this on top websites. For our clients this just adds to the traffic they receive, spreading the word of their service, product or existence on top of the hefty search engine optimization work we already do for them. We have the top graphics design team on the penninsula combined with the best application programmers in the area.

This bodes particularly well for the two projects that got featured, as American Portable is expanding around the nation every month with franchise operations from here to California. CKY is on the cusp of releasing their new album this Spring on their new label, RoadRunner Records. CKY has always done things their way, on their terms. Inclind knows just how to handle their web presence and coordinate it with marketing, web content, and the fans. Like all of our clients, they love us and we love them!

Want to be successful?

If you feel your website is bland, boring, or isn’t doing for you what you’d like it to do, contact us or give us a call at (302) 856-2802 and talk with us.

Launched 3 websites, featured on design showcase sites, and Friday I turn 25. Doesn’t this week kick a little ass!

Keep on the lookout, Inclind is everywhere!

What does that mean?
 When I build applications, I like to strictly maintain to all of the perceived standards that I think of or any that might occur to me as I’m building and the variants that I believe are allowable from this consistency.

How about some examples?
 Perfect consistency in my folders, components, functions, methods, files, tables, columns, you name it, I’ve got a good reason why I name it or space it or look at it a certain way.  

Have you ever looked through a piece of code someone else wrote and changed it to adhere to my precious standards?
  You bet. 

Have you ever argued relentlessly about such important concepts as how a database table is properly named?  
 Yes.  

Do you ever hold back from imparting your wisdom to your fellow employees by showing them the importance of a file being correctly indented or of a more sane folder structure or a "better way" then they explained?
Daily. More than that if I’m being honest.

Could you go on and on about different aspects of programming that you’ve deem immovable?
No need to answer that one.

What purpose do these standards have other than the noted annoyances caused to others?
I like to think that by strictly maintaining all of these standards, it allows me to use my thought on more important innovation instead of wondering how something is going to be named, or spaced, or whatever. 

Where does the practical part come from?
The practical part comes from being, well, practical enough to relent from these relentless standards.  For example, I like to name all database table names singularly (item instead of items).  What happens when I think a table should be called "group".  I have two options.  One, when calling the table via SQL, put the table in brackets, so that the reserved word is not taken as such.  The other is to break the rule and name this one plural.  I choose to name the table plural as I’d rather see an "s" at the end of group, then go through all the SQL code and put brackets around it.  Do the brackets even work in all cases?  Well, not real sure. Hence, me taking the easy way out and putting an "s" at the of group. 

Has anyone ever thought that much about singular or plural table names?
I hope so.

What is the purpose of this rant?
Well, I intended on describing all of the standards as I see them, but then two things happened.  One, I fell in love with the Q&A writing style.  Two, I don’t think (in most cases) it matters what specific standards you hold.  Just that you have standards. You have enough attention to detail to care about something as minute as the naming convention of a file (lower-case first word, upper case first letter of all other words,  acronyms should be all CAPS, abbreviations only if you can pick somebody off the street and they’d understand what you mean).  You’ve had enough thought about them to be able to stick up for these.  But also be practical enough to realize that the other side is better and switch quickly.  And, if that you aren’t hurting your productivity too much by sticking to these standards.  If you are, then make an exception.  Although, you must have a very good reason to stray.  In most cases, even if it seems like sticking to standards takes longer, it doesn’t because you need to think less when you look back it at. 

For over 6 years now I’ve had the pleasure of being friends with some of the best guys in the music business. I’ve never met or read about anyone else who has put as much blood, sweat, tears and heart into what they do as far as music goes. They, like us, had humble beginnings in West Chester, PA. So, I wanted to do all I could to help them in whatever way possible to succeed. Naturally, this meant with the internet.

This is actually how I got started with my career, as these guys (specifically, Deron Miller) were the only ones to give me a shot at doing a website way back in the day. When I joined Inclind in 2005, I was really able to step up their game online and help them with their continuing success. Their website has over 30,000 registered members and receives on average 20k hits, viewed by millions, and their forum is very active with thousands and thousands of posts and topics. It is one of our cornerstone websites and one of our most unique clients. You may have spotted them before on MTVs “Viva la Bam” or “Jackass”, but the real deal lies in the music of the band.

The roots of the relationships that bring you the present-day CKY date back to late 1992 at East High School in West Chester, PA. 14-year-old drummer Jess Margera is a freshmen in Pre-Algebra 1A class, where he meets 16-year-old guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller, a junior who had past credits to make up. They became friends, but it wasn’t until later that they started playing music together. By 1995, they were writing songs and practicing together exclusively in Jess’ basement under the band name Foreign Objects. They entered the studio that summer, and, on October 1, they released a five-song EP, The Undiscovered Numbers & Colors, which was a popular local release. They played two official shows as Foreign Objects with the first of many live bassist’s over the next few years.

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