Their previous system was a large Drupal 5 application managing 7 websites which we built in 2008 (and was one of our first Drupal websites). Inclind redeveloped beracahhomes.com under their custom Drupal 6 package, providing added functionality, a better administrative user interface, content delivery through XML services, billboard (rotating banners) management, and high quality video encoding capabilities. Leif Osmundson provided Beracah Homes with a new design for a fresh look and feel for the upcoming years. We’ve also implemented better search engine optimization tools to help Beracah Homes rank better amongst their competitors.

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Beracah Homes’ builders also have a Drupal package allowing them to manage their own website while receiving modular homes content from beracahhomes.com. The builders now have the flexibility of customizing their CMS to their needs without being conformed to the same system tie-in they previously had. It was difficult before to add functionality to one site without affecting the rest, but now all sites can scale without an issue.

Services XML, similar to our Drupal RETS implementation for Drupal real estate, allows Roger Collison (Vice President of Beracah Homes) to enter model home types, home specifications, floorplans and photos. That content is then sent to all builder sites so everyone has the same information without having to manage it themselves. This ensures that information on all the homes Beracah builds is accurate and up to date across all their websites without a salesperson in another branch having to remember to make the changes. This was a major functionality change that allowed us to decouple all the websites from a single application, providing them with the same content delivery feature while giving them room to manage their own site.

Custom Drupal solutions is what we do. If you have a website that is just idling on the internet and not doing much for your business, you are interested in getting your first website and not sure where to start, or you just need help managing your current website, give us a call at 1-302-856-2802 or stop in. We do free consulting to help you and your business on the internet.

Check out the new and improved Beracah Homes today!

PayFranchiseTax.com is the latest website from Harvard Business Associates. Harvard Business Associates (HBS) is located in Lewes, Delaware, but conveniently serve corporations through their 3 sites; Delaware Inc, Delaware LLC, and now www.payfranchisetax.com. PayFranchiseTax.com is super-clean, and the purpose is to be a quick, easy-to-use online paying system for Delaware business owners looking to pay their franchise tax.

Franchise tax is charged by some states, Delaware being one, to corporations with a filing obligation within that state’s borders, and is based on “net worth” versus income. This tax is mandatory for corporations within Delaware, and payfranchisetax.com is the most convenient way to complete the process.

The site also hosts a great deal of information for those who wish to educate themselves on franchise tax and looking to form a new company.

Blue Hen Organics Compost Facility is located on 46 acres just west of Dagsboro, Delaware on Fox Run Road. The facility is open six days a week for material drop-off and product purchases. The Blue Hen Organics facility is the first permitted organic residual composting facility in Sussex County, Delaware, and is capable of processing over 120 tons of debris daily. This facility currently accepts all types of vegetative debris, yard waste, land clearing debris, and poultry manure.

Inclind assisted with defining branding for Blue Hen Organics, providing a fresh design, developing their website, powering it with Drupal content management system, custom modules, social media integration, and providing search engine optimization.

Visit the new Blue Hen Organics site today – in your browser, iPhone or iPad! »

Have a question about web design, content management, Drupal, or marketing your business/brand online? Contact Inclind today, we’re here to help.

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Accudyne Systems specializes in all aspects of custom equipment:

• Development
• Engineering design
• Fabrication
• Systems integration
• Start-up
• Support

We assisted in converting their old static HTML site into a content management powerhouse with the help of Drupal and custom Drupal module programming and provided them with a fresh new look for 2010 and beyond. Easy editing with CKEditor, eye catching images using our Billboards module, and an eye pleasing new design by Leif Osmundson.

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Their new Delaware Real Estate section is powered by our Drupal stack utilizing a custom in-house RETS module. Previous systems would receive listings once a day through a bulk FTP push from Offutt. Using RETS, Wilgus Associates can receive on-demand updates and data every hour.

This allows for the data to be arranged, mapped, sorted and listed in thousands of ways backed up by hourly data integrity functions to ensure the most up to date information, not to mention the worlds most flexible CMS to manage content with Drupal.

The new site also makes use of extensive search engine optimization work to help Wilgus rank better amongst their competiton. It also utilizes social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to help spread the word and allow users to share/bookmark listings in their respective services.

What is RETS?

The Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) facilitates data transfer between partners in the real estate industry. Creating and improving RETS is a collaborative effort to simplify moving real estate information from system to system and simplify solution development efforts. As RETS usage matures and expands, MLS with geographic overlaps can create data-sharing policies that provide their members a single point of entry to search multiple MLS data sets.

Interested in RETS?

If you’re a broker or REALTOR, using RETS technology is the fastest way to get listings up and running on your website. Our RETS system for Drupal was built with flexibility, speed, marketing, and conversions in mind allowing us to quickly and effectively deploy it in no time.

Contact Inclind today at 302-856-2802 or email us at info@inclind.com for a free consultation on how your Delaware real estate website could benefit by using RETS.

About Wilgus Associates

The growth story of Wilgus Associates can be traced back to its origins as a staff of one in a one room insurance office located on the boardwalk in the Bethany Beach Bowling Ally. Since that humble and simple beginning, Wilgus Associates has grown to include three offices in Sussex County that offer a wide array of real estate and insurance services and now employs a staff of over fifty people.

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Washingtons Green Grocer is the brainchild of John (Zeke) Zechiel and his wife Lisa. After identifying the need for better produce and deliverables versus store bought goods, John and Lisa planted the seeds for Washingtons Green Grocer in 1994. Every week, Washingtons Green Grocer provides customers with tentative lists of fruits and vegetables that will be available, and each customer can pick and choose what they would like delivered (yep, home delivery!) for that week through their online account.

Providing unmatched service and 100% dedication to custom satisfaction, Washingtons Green Grocer has been wildly popular and has exploded in the DC metro area. They currently serve all of Washington DC and the surrounding suburban areas in Maryland and Virginia from Severna Park to Arlington and all points in between north and south.

How does it work?

Every week, Washingtons Green Grocer selects 12 to 14 different fruits and vegetables and delivers them to your doorstep. On Friday’s, they email customers a tentative list for the next weeks delivery. If there is anything on the list you don’t want, you can log into your account and customize your box. For example, you can choose to receive only 7 items instead of the full box, or substitute items for other items. Each customer can choose exactly what they want and get it without fail every single week. You can also set custom schedules for delivery, such as every other week, or once a month, or schedule around vacation time. It’s all up to the customer!

Application

Such business growth commands the necessity of a powerful web application to tie all the logic together and keep things running smoothly. After getting tired of the shortcomings of their previous system, Zeke contacted us and we started talking about a full redesign of the front end and a re-architecting of the back end. After planning and mind-mapping the application to the last detail, Inclind began work on the project early in the summer of this year.

Their initial website was built on a rigid and inflexible Coldfusion system. The first order of business was getting all the existing data out and into the new system and giving it structure to make it easy to work with. As with all our sites, we begin with a base install of Drupal 6 to build from. Drupal is the best CMF (content management framework) available right now. Other packages that are simply CMS (content management systems- Plone, Wordpress, Joomla) are not as adaptable and flexible as Drupal.

To handle the business end of things, Ubercart takes care of the day to day transactions for customers. There are over 5,000 active customers in the system. To make it as easy as possible to get started, we ask for your basic information up front and allow you to pick your items for delivery. After your account is created, a staff member at Washington’s Green Grocer selects the most appropriate truck route for you and you will begin receiving deliverables on the next scheduled day.

At this point, a customer can login at any time and adjust their delivery schedule, items for delivery, or halt deliveries. Customers can also browse recipes on the site and submit their own. Washington’s Green Grocer promotes healthy eating habits and you will find plenty of recipes on their website for that.

Backend

Along with the new visuals and customer functionality, we needed to build and provide lots of cool administrative stuff into the backend for easy management of customers, data, and content.

We also needed to be able to actively map delivery truck routes through Google Maps on demand and be able to filter them in a variety of ways. This helps Washingtons Green Grocer visually assess their delivery routes, their customers, and orders. We also also extended on that to provide filtering tools to narrow it down further to specific routes, specific clients, specific orders or orders with specific kinds of products.

Washingtons Green Grocer staff also have a variety of reporting tools at their disposal for viewing customer trends, requests, future forecasting, and production reports.

Check out Washingtons Green Grocer today!

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’s 2010. It’s time to stop using Internet Explorer 6.

Internet Explorer 6 was released like a virus on August 27, 2001 with Windows XP. That makes the browser almost 9 years old. Most of you don’t keep cars for that long. You trust your car to protect you from danger, that it has efficient gas usage and quality parts. As soon as it gets old, or you have service issues, you go get a new car. Yet, some of you don’t seem to be bothered that when you sit down to do your banking or purchase things online, you use a browser that has little to no security, easily delivers malware/virii/spyware, and does not adhere to the internet standards created by some of the top minds of internet architecture at W3C. That’s like going 80 miles an hour in a car made of glass, bald tires, and powered by a leaky nuclear core. Eventually you are going to get hurt.

With so many super sexy options out there for browsers, you owe it to yourself to upgrade. And why not? Browsers are free. You’re lucky. I remember paying for Netscape Navigator 4 just to escape Internet Explorer in the 90s. That’s how much I loathed it- and that’s how popular Netscape used to be. For the stubborn who refuse to upgrade, you are about to be left behind. Companies like Google are discontinuing support for Internet Explorer 6. Google knows whats up.

It’s time for you to take action. Please upgrade your browser today. Choose a flavor and enjoy better, and safer, internet browsing today. All of these browsers offer bookmark importing, so you can take your favorites from IE with you.

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Apple Safari

If you need assistance upgrading, we’re here to help.

What is an LLC?

A limited liability company or a company with limited liability (abbreviated L.L.C. or LLC or W.L.L) in the law of the vast majority of United States jurisdictions is a legal form of business company that provides limited liability to its owners. Often incorrectly called a “limited liability corporation” (instead of company), it is a hybrid business entity having certain characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership or sole proprietorship (depending on how many owners there are). An LLC, although a business entity, is a type of unincorporated association and is not a corporation. The primary characteristic an LLC shares with a corporation is limited liability, and the primary characteristic it shares with a partnership is the availability of pass-through income taxation. It is often more flexible than a corporation and it is well-suited for companies with a single owner.

Delaware LLC is built on our custom Drupal CMS package. It was designed from the ground up by Creative Director Kevin Howett, and put together in a collaborative effort between newcomer Matt Oseland, Kevin Howett and Bryan Cordrey. Efforts were focused on a pleasing, business-minded design, effective search engine optimization, and funneling/encouraging customers to begin the process of forming an LLC in Delaware.

As Rick’s customers go to him and Harvard Business Services for their LLC/incorporation expertise, Rick came to Inclind for our expertise in clean, effective websites and powerful web application development under Drupal and our deep knowledge of content management systems such as Drupal. We also got to flex our system integration skills with Drupal, PHP and Coldfusion.

About Delaware LLC & Harvard Business Services

With more than 25 years of experience, over 20,000 clients worldwide, and offices in both the United States and Europe, Harvard Business Services, Inc. is the premier provider of registered agent and business formation solutions.

Rick Bell formed Harvard Business Services, Inc. in March, 1981. Competitors then were big and well established. But Rick conducted business with a philosophy that allowed Harvard not just to survive but to thrive, emerging over time to become an acknowledged leader in the business formation industry.

His philosophy focused on a highly personalized style of customer service, understanding that beyond the mechanics of forming a business there were dreams and aspirations. A customer’s individual questions and concerns were important and special, and that’s how they were treated.

Rick also decided that a customer’s business formation costs should be fixed, predictable, affordable, and customers should get a lot of value for their money.

After almost 30 years and tens of thousands of business formations later, that same approach is still the signature of our culture and way of doing business: speed, efficiency, expertise and affordability, all delivered with the Harvard legacy of personal service.

Headquartered in Lewes, DE, Harvard Business Services, Inc. today is the leading provider of business formation services. Along with the Harvard Business Services brand of fast, personalized service, customers soon discover a number of other traits that set Harvard Business Services, Inc. far apart from the rest.
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If you have any questions regarding content management systems, Drupal, Coldfusion or systems integration, we are here to help. Give us a call at 302-856-2802, send us a tweet @inclindinc, or stop by our office. We have been the leading web development firm in the area for over 10 years running and have fourty years of combined web experience under one roof.