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Newport, Oregon Private School, Our Living School

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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E-Commerce Sites by Gray’s Web Design

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?

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

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!

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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Websites for Musicians and Artists

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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Sacred Pathways is having great success!

Value added!  Anyone who has ever taken a business class knows the term “value added” — always do something special to keep your customers interested and happy.  We’ve been working on a “value added” facebook page for Sacred Pathways.  In addition to a YouTube tab and a robust Events tab, we recently added a dynamically driven Services tab.  Every time they add a new service to their website, it shows up on their facebook page as well:

This way their facebook visitors can get a host of information about their services and events while *staying* on facebook.  Once they are really interested, they also go over to their website (snap!) and join the e-news list.

Having this “value added” facebook page has been highly successful.  They’ve gone from 500 visitors to over 1100 in the past three weeks.

We’ve brought people to the page using targeted advertising on facebook, and kept them there by having a fun and useful page.

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The Village Bean Launches E-Commerce

Mmmmm, luxury gourmet organic coffee from The Village Bean can now be purchased from them online.

Barbara has an updatable cart, so she can add, edit and delete products herself without knowing any special programming stuff.  Congratulations Village Bean!!  Oh, and Barbara designed her own website (we just did the cart).  She’s also an incredible graphic artist.

And folks, if you need good coffee, this place is incredible.  Great holiday gifts for sale online too.