Leif has a background in photography, web design, SEO, project/client management, and social media with a likeable personality to boot. He’s very active with social media (and we don’t mind that!) such as Facebook and Twitter. He’s also active in the community with his photography.

Welcome Leif!

It was without a doubt one of the biggest projects we have completed here. Blood, sweat, and tears beers were spent completing it and we are honored that it is featured on drupal.org. It is the culmination of many hours of teamwork.

At the end of July, we also gave a presentation to the Delaware Web Developer group from the University of Delaware at the WBOC offices in Milton, Delaware. They love the new Dogfish Head website and were curious to know how we utilized Drupal to make it come to life. Shaun Tyndall presented it to the group in a 100 minute presentation, with demonstrations and functional walkthrough’s from Pete Stein and Kevin Quillen. When it was over, they were treated to a Dogfish Head brewery tour and sampling of some of the Dogfish Head brews.

Speaking of beer, can someone get our President something better than Bud Light? Just saying!

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.

Every business requires teamwork. It doesn’t matter what field you are in. Music, medical, law, military, web development, even marriage. Nothing is successful without the mutual backing of each other toward the end goal. Support comes from respect, not the requirement thereof based on a job title. Command it, don’t demand it. It starts with you!

There are 4 major factors of an individual that calculates how successful teamwork will be:

1. Respect
2. Personality
3. Commitment
4. Communication

When 1 person has these qualities, and you match them with others who do as well, you get solid team chemistry, team dynamics. This creates success.

It’s not about having a group and saying, ‘get this done’. You can’t force people to work together just because you say they have to. Remember when you were assigned group projects in school or college? Didn’t always go so well did it? You’d have a couple people not pulling their weight, another who let someone else do all the work just to pass.

It’s also not about assembling experts and throwing money at them to solve a problem.

Without chemistry and team dynamics, it just won’t work. What you’ll have on your hands is a revolving door environment, people coming in, quickly going out. New hires, quick fires, low morale.

Team dynamics is a team that can play off of each others strengths in order to support each others areas of weakness. What you have then is a tight unit where the rate of failure drops to nearly zero. Look at Google. Everyone there isn’t the best in everything, most of them are good programmers with very creative personalities and commitment to what they do. Even when Google started, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had such a solid foundation that their college project evolved into taking over the world. But Google is good, so thats okay! What I mean here is, think of all the designers who try to program, and all the programmers who try to design. On their own, they usually do great at one, poor at the other. But put them together and focus on each others strong areas (programming and design) and the end product is infinitely greater than what it was before. Each persons weakness is the others strength, together they form a successful unit. Team dynamics are a force multiplier!

Earlier I mentioned that it doesn’t matter what field you are in, that teamwork encompasses any area. So lets draw a parallel with another industry, music.

Off the top of your head, can you think of any bands that have been around a while? Lets see:

• Rolling Stones
• Rush
• Metallica
• AC/DC
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• Guns ‘n Roses
• Pearl Jam
• Megadeth

These are some of my favorite bands who have accumulated massive success for the last 20 years, some even more than that. But there are two on the list that don’t have something in common with the rest.

While all bands have had at least 1 lineup change, only two have a revolving door type environment. Guns ‘n Roses and Megadeth have changed their lineups at least every 2 to 3 years since they started. In particular, Axl Rose and Dave Mustaine (both frontmen) keep a stranglehold on everything from writing, playing, mixing, and deciding pay percentages. They don’t really care for the input of the others, and in their mind, they are the star of the show.

So, what happened?

Both Axl and Dave did not respect their bandmates nor attempt to communicate with them on major issues or pending work. The result ended up being band members coming and going. Their poor, controlling, megalomaniacal attitudes brought dreams and careers to an end. Everyone knows that when Slash and Izzy Stradlin quit Guns ‘n Roses, the band was effectively dead. Why? The chemistry had dissolved, you didn’t have passionate, creative people working together anymore, you just had a bunch of guys playing instruments. That just doesn’t work. Sure, you can still see them in concert today, but the only original member is Axl, and its basically just a name and a memory. Same with Megadeth. The chemistry is gone. Imagine how many more albums they could have done if they each possessed the 4 qualities I mentioned at the start of this article!

It’s the same way with web development. You can put anyone on the keyboard and write code, put anyone in front of Photoshop, anyone can give orders. But its just not the same as having a strong team who has a desire to work together.

This is why Inclind is successful at any undertaking and every client is happy with us, why we’re the best web development company in Delaware, and one of the best in the region. We’ve accomplished everything we put our minds to, or asked to do, big projects to small projects to personal things like helping each other outside the office or just hanging out. We aren’t just a face and a title, we’re human beings here to help you and help each other. We don’t just take your money and run, we make it worth your while. Your satisfaction and success is shared by us.

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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.

What can we say, this is the place to work. Only we do what we do. Inclind has grown into a strong collective unit, tackling projects left and right. We’re much more fine tuned than we were this time last year, even more aware of our individual (and group) strengths and how to work as a team instead of code cowboys. Since I hopped on this train in 2005 it had just left the station, and now theres no stop or end in site to what can be achieved.

Individually, we’re all really coming into our own. Pete and I are a pretty tight unit, and are developing very creative solutions and enhancements for all Inclind products / applications. Tom’s been knocking designs out of the park on the first try, and the managers are keeping everyone happy.

2008 is going to be very good for all involved with Inclind one way or another.

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.

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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!

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.