Newport, Oregon Private School, Our Living School

Posted on: January 18th, 2013 by grayswebdesign

Newport, Oregon has a new private school for K-3rd grade.  Here’s a bit about the school from their website:

“If we attempt to move education forward but we focus only on the students, then we will be as successful as training a one-winged bird to fly.  In order for education to be truly revolutionary, the teacher accepts herself as a student of life as well.  Then in a dynamic, inquiry-based educational environment, the teacher and the students come together and root themselves in their love of learning and passion for living.”

Our Living School is joy-based education, and their website reflects that!  Learn more at www.ourlivingschool.org.

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Meditation Classes in Portland Oregon by Meditation Momma

Posted on: January 18th, 2013 by grayswebdesign

Now here’s a delightful site! www.meditationmomma.com.  Caren Prentice offers a wide variety of meditation classes, including meditation for relaxation, meditation for pregnant moms, meditation for weight loss, meditation for teens and more.  Caren is an inspiration.  If you want a meditation class that raises your happiness, I encourage you to contact Caren.

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Artist Ram Papish

Posted on: January 18th, 2013 by grayswebdesign

We really enjoy working with artists!  We recently launched a new site for Newport, Oregon nature illustrator Ram Papish.  You can view his portfolio and order prints, cards and books.  Visit www.rampapish.com.

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E-Commerce Sites by Gray’s Web Design

Posted on: July 6th, 2012 by grayswebdesign

We enjoy building custom, updatable e-commerce sites.  Our clients can add, edit and delete their own products and manage their orders database all in one place.  They can offer coupon codes, put products on sale, manage inventory, and much more.

Here are a few of our faves:

Ocean Beaches Glassblowing and Gallery:

www.oceanbeachesglass.com has a large inventory of glass art by a variety of Oregon Coast artists.  You can navigate through the aritsts or through the shopping categories.  And you can learn more about the local galleries.  Enjoy!

 

Log Home Store:

www.loghomestore.com has an inventory of thousands of products, all available for secure purchase online.  They manage their entire site themselves, including articles that are useful for log home builders, all of their site pages, and of course their products inventory.

 

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What Should I Do On My Vacation?

Posted on: January 31st, 2012 by grayswebdesign

When you’re asking yourself that question, what’s the first thing you do?  Check out the tourism websites of course! 

Building websites for tourism-related businesses is one of our main focuses here at Gray’s Web Design.

Check out this enticing website for Lochaerie Resort on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State www.lochaerie.com:

Lochaerie Resort, Cabins on the Olympic Peninsula

Lochaerie Resort, Cabins on the Olympic Peninsula

Their website sports an availability calendar customized just for them.  Plus they can update every single page of their website.  Isn’t it great to be in control?

And besides figuring out where to stay, you want to decide what to do.  Here’s a fun site that we just did for Sand Dunes Frontier in Florence, Oregon.  This business owner had the idea to embed a variety of videos right into the design.  Why be boring, right?  www.sanddunesfrontier.com

Sand Dunes Frontier in Florence, Oregon

Sand Dunes Frontier in Florence, Oregon

 

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Holy Cross Catholic School in Portland, Oregon

Posted on: January 30th, 2012 by grayswebdesign

Why have a boring school website when you use a website to colorfully show off the joy, community, and mission of your school — and still communicate all the little details that a school website needs to communicate?

That’s what Holy Cross Catholic School in Portland, Oregon decided to do.  Check it out at www.holycrosspdx.org.

Holy Cross Catholic School in Portland, Oregon

Holy Cross Catholic School in Portland, Oregon

With their fully updatable website, Holy Cross Catholic School can communicate about admissions, events, news and more.  But they didn’t stop there.  They have photo galleries, a photo-rich page about each classroom, and info about alumni, activities, music, sports and more.

Plus they are using facebook to keep in touch with their families.  You can see their facebook page here:  http://www.facebook.com/holycrosscatholicschool.

Enjoy!

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Ocean Bleu at Gino’s — On the Web!

Posted on: January 30th, 2012 by grayswebdesign

We redid the Ocean Bleu at Gino’s website recently — check it out!  www.oceanbleuseafoods.com.

Ready for your mouth to water?

Ocean Bleu at Gino's, Newport, Oregon Bayfront

Ocean Bleu at Gino's, Newport, Oregon Bayfront

These guys are using both their website and facebook to engage with their customers.

Their emphasis is on wild caught, natural seafood.  And they Buy Local! True confessions here….this is one of my favorite places to eat.

If you haven’t liked them on facebook yet, what are you waiting for?  www.facebook.com/oceanbleuatginos.

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Mo’s Restaurants and their Facebook Success Story

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by grayswebdesign

A few months ago we lanched a new site for Mo’s Restaurants (I know you’ve eaten at at least one of their restaurants — I sure have).   Check out the new site here:  www.moschowder.com.

Mo's Restaurants, Home of Mo's World Famous Clam Chowder

Mo's Restaurants, Home of Mo's World Famous Clam Chowder

They use their website to promote upcoming events, news, things they are doing to give back to the community, and you can even buy Mo’s products including their famous chowder base online.  Plus the site is just fun!

Oh, and they can update everything themselves, including menus, news, products, text….everything.

But what I wanted to point out today is their use of facebook to engage with their customers.  First notice that in the footer of their site is a facebook like box, so site visitors can see their facebook feed right on the site, and can click to like them without even leaving the website.

Second, notice that they have almost 6000 fans on facebook!  http://www.facebook.com/mosrestaurants.

When we first started working together about six months ago, they had 1000 fans on facebook.  We started an ad campaign that asked facebook users to post their favorite Mo’s Restaurants story.  They jumped to 5000 fans in six weeks.  

From there, its just been gravy.

We’re keeping the facebook page fun and useful.  You can get their menus, watch fun Mo’s videos, and keep up on what’s happening at Mo’s.

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Websites for Musicians and Artists

Posted on: January 25th, 2012 by grayswebdesign

Do musicians and artists need websites too?  Heck yes!  Websites and facebook are excellent marketing tools to get the word out about the quality of focus of your artistry.

Newport fused glass artist Karel Murphy of Windy Sea Designs launched this brand new site recently:

Windy Sea Designs by Karel Murphy

Windy Sea Designs by Karel Murphy

Karel uses her site to both showcase her work and to sell online.  She has a custom shopping cart that she updates herself.  And she is using facebook to keep in touch with her fans.  Visit her site at www.windyseadesigns.com.

Portland mandolinist Brian Oberlin has launched his ultra-cool eye-catching website at www.mandoberlin.com.

 

Portland Mandolinist Brian Oberlin of Mandoberlin

Portland Mandolinist Brian Oberlin of Mandoberlin

He uses his site to feature upcoming performances, and upcoming classes and workshops that he is teaching.  He also uses his site to provide musical clips of his work to whet the appetite.  And once you’ve heard some clips, you can find out where to buy his music.

He manages his own website, adding his events, clips and teaching tools himself using a custom-designed admin that we made for him.

Plus he’s using facebook to keep in touch with his fans.

And speaking of mandolin music, check out the new and improved Oregon Mandolin Orchestra website at www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org.

Oregon Mandolin Orchestra

Oregon Mandolin Orchestra

These folks also update their own website, including upcoming events, musical clips, photo gallery, news, and more!

And they are using facebook to connect with their fans.

 

 

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Newport, Oregon Marketing Workshop

Posted on: May 19th, 2011 by grayswebdesign

For those of you in the area, come one come all to the Marketing Your Business Online workshop in Newport, Oregon on May 27.  Gray’s Web Design will be one of the presenters, along with Webfoot Design and Marketing, and Newport Internet.   I’ll be covering marketing your business on Facebook.

You can come for either the 10am to noon session, or the 1pm to 3pm session (whichever works best for your schedule).  Its sponsored by the Newport Chamber, and is open to the public even if you’re not a Chamber member.  Here are the details:

“Marketing Your Business Online” Workshop

The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a free “Marketing Your Business Online” workshop presentation on Friday, May 27. For the convenience of chamber members, there will be two identical workshops, one before and one after the regular Friday luncheon. The Embarcadero will be hosting the workshop at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Frank Geltner, Newport Internet, will facilitate a panel of presenters including Lisa Gray, owner of Gray’s Web Design; Misty Lambrecht, owner of Webfoot Marketing & Design; and Timothy Brogan, manager of Newport Internet. Topics will include web design, search engine optimization, how to have an effective social media campaign, managing your on-line reviews and local listings, spam, viruses, lists, business apps, and related topics. Please RSVP to Chamber Office 541-265-8801.
Who is coming???
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