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Park to Park Trail Launch

Jason Rosewell — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:12:51 +0000

This morning Linkhouse Media is proud to launch the new website for Park to Park Trail Association. The Park to Park Trail network includes trail sections of historic rail beds and colonization roads, as well as newly developed trail, and road sections. We worked closely with Christina Bossart (incidentally, the second of two sisters we have worked with), who was extremely dedicated to pulling the project together, even after her contract ended with Park to Park.

Christina’s vision for a fresh new brand for Park to Park came to fruition when she hired Julia Archer of Grey Owl Graphics to work her magic. The result is amazing and really brings Park to Park’s image to life with a clean, modern look and a bit of a retro flair. Enter Linkhouse Media to pull things together in a robust content management system, shopping cart integration and custom visual theme.

Visit Park to Park and have a look!

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My Chef In Muskoka & More

Jason Rosewell — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:00:39 +0000

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us. It’s not that we haven’t been launching websites; we’ve just been too busy launching to blog! We have had a great spring helping our clients get online with either their first site or a revamp of an existing one.

First up we have My Chef In Muskoka. The amazing Kyla and MacKenzie Taylor are owners and chef of a company that takes world class dining to your home, cottage or event. With their private dining experience or private chef’s table at their market in Baysville, Ontario, they and their team deliver HUGE. This is not catering, folks. This is an experience that begs to be enjoyed. Linkhouse Media teamed up once again with the amazing Sara Tyson to create a visual dish that tempts the palate almost as much as Mac’s cuisine!

Next up is Explorers’ Edge. Explorers’ Edge is the popular Ontario travel destination with Algonquin Park, the Almaguin Highlands, Muskoka and Parry Sound within its borders. The region also touches iconic Georgian Bay to the west and Lake Nipissing to the north. The website boasts our favorite (and best) content management system, WordPress and is chalk full of custom plugins developed by yours truly. We have used WordPress to the max this time around with custom post types and themes.

The Parry Sound Area Community Business & Development Centre is next. This great local organization is a federally supported not-for-profit Community Futures Development Corporation, governed by volunteers in partnership with FedNor. The services provided by the CB&DC exist to promote economic growth and community development of the Parry Sound region. The centre focuses on job creation by community strategic planning and providing funding and advisory services to area businesses. This Linkhouse Media project took the existing website and brought the look and programming up-to-date, as well as added CMS functionality and a comprehensive online application form for loan applications.

Next we have the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve. The Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve model aims to integrate core protected areas (such as provincial and national parks), surrounding buffer areas (mostly Crown Lands) and an outer transition area of communities that support sustainable development. It was our pleasure to work with a great group of people who work hard to raise local awareness in protecting the environment, create vibrant communities and build a healthy economy.

Last but not least, we have SiSi Started It. Andrea Tranter is creating natural products that are healthy for the skin and use ingredients that are only found in nature. Check out Andrea’s new Linkhouse Media website for all of her amazing products and while you’re there, order some! With paypal integration, purchasing is easy and secure.

Thanks for checking in. We can’t wait to show you what we’re working on next! Cheers.

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Richard Culverwell Photography

Jason Rosewell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:47 +0000

My friend Richard Culverwell has recently launched his new photography portfolio with the help of Linkhouse Media. Richard made it clear right from the beginning that the focus of this site be the photography. We have built a site with a clear focus on his amazing work. The site features galleries, some helpful information from Richard and a responsive design that scales for mobile devices. It even incorporates a great touch swipe feature for mobile users which provides easy navigation through the photos.

Have a look through his galleries and you’ll notice that his attention to detail, scale and composition make for some fantastic photography. I can’t wait to add some to my home! Thanks, Richard.

Visit rculverwellphotography.ca

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Huckleberry’s is Online

Jason Rosewell — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:40:25 +0000

Huckleberry’s in Parry Sound is a specialty retailer of home and cottage furnishings. It’s one of those places you walk into and are greeted with an amazing aroma of scented candles, pine cones and sachets. It’s a cozy store that cottagers and locals flock to when they need that perfect item for their home or cottage or simply need to take in the sights at Parry Sound’s amazing waterfront.

Linkhouse Media has developed a website that has the clean look and feel that Huckleberry’s works hard to achieve in their store. We went with a clean, contemporary feel that is designed to provide the information potential customers need as well as let the store and product images shine.

Visit www.huckleberrys.ca

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Introducing Parry Sound Fuels & Huntsville Fuels!

Jason Rosewell — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:46:30 +0000

Linkhouse Media is very happy to announce the launch of both Parry Sound Fuels and Huntsville Fuels online. Both websites offer a variety of features that are useful not only to business customers but also the average consumer. Among these is the handy fuel price drop-down badge which is located on every page of the website. The fuel price drop-down shows today’s cardlock fuel prices; even more incentive to get your cardlock key fob today!

Launching soon as part of Parry Sound and Huntsville’s online initiative are mobile apps for Apple, RIM and Android devices as well as a mobile version of the website with fuel pricing, news and locations. Stay tuned for more on that.

Be sure to also check out Parry Sound Fuels on Facebook and on their brand new Twitter account. Thanks to James and Neal for allowing Linkhouse Media to assist you with your online venture.

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StuffSwap.ca, Buy & Sell in Parry Sound!

Jason Rosewell — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:12:37 +0000

Introducing StuffSwap! A new buy and sell in Parry Sound. Stuff Swap is the place online to sell, trade, barter, hawk or give away your stuff, junk, treasures, nicknacks, property or family members (wait… no, don’t do that). This website is completely free because paying for classifieds in this day and age just seems silly.

We realize there are other local alternatives out there and even some free ones, but why not turn to the fastest growing buy and sell website in Parry Sound? StuffSwap.ca is easy to use and there are no gimmicks, hassles or hidden fees, EVER.

Get started by creating your free account and get busy making money!

Linkhouse Media launches UpTown Waterloo BIA

Jason Rosewell — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:45:46 +0000

It’s that time again; time for another website launch. This time we are proud to unveil the brand new site for the UpTown Waterloo Business Improvement Area. Project management and complete artistic direction came from the very talented Erika Bartos of The PaperWasp Design Studio. We at Linkhouse Media had the pleasure of taking a great design and making it work (Erika, I’m sorry for not always following your site map)!

The UpTown Waterloo BIA is located in Waterloo, Ontario and provides information services to residents, visitors and local uptown businesses. The website features a full Content Management System, Search Indexed Business Directory, Event Listings and lots of helpful information for happenings in Waterloo.

Thanks to Erika at the PaperWasp for the chance to work with such a great design team — we hope to do it again soon.

Head over to the UpTown Waterloo Business Improvement Area and let us know what you think! The new UpTown Waterloo BIA website is proudly hosted by Linkhost Media.

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Artistic Direction & Project Management:
Erika Bartos – The PaperWasp Design Studio

iPhone 4 in White! Joy!

Jason Rosewell — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:22:13 +0000

Festival of the Sound site launch

Jason Rosewell — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:05:13 +0000

This is not an April fools joke, but it is another great day at Linkhouse Media as we officially go live with the all new festivalofthesound.ca! Over the past few months we have had the pleasure of working under the art direction of the amazingly talented Sara Tyson who envisioned the look of the site as well as the Festival’s print media. My hat is off to the Festival of the Sound’s incredibly hard-working Marketing & Community Relations coordinator Carla Bossart, who worked many long hours filling the new website with content. Carla, along with Festival Executive Director Margie Boyd were instrumental in coordinating the site structure and content, and were able to clearly communicate their needs as the project moved forward.

The Festival of the Sound is in its 32nd season this year and will run from July 15th to August 7th with the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts being its main venue. The Festival features renowned artists from all over the world who come together on beautiful Georgian Bay to wow audiences year after year. It has been our pleasure at Linkhouse Media being a part of such a great organization and we look forward to a continued relationship with the Festival.

Some of the features of the new website include Linkhouse Media’s own custom Content Management System, dynamic page, artist and event creation, a WordPress blog integration with media gallery and custom theme design, a custom theme design for the online ticket portal and much more.

Head over to festivalofthesound.ca and let us know what you think! The new Festival website is proudly hosted by Linkhost Media.

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Firefox 4 Address Bar Search

Jason Rosewell — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:18:27 +0000

So you just upgraded to Firefox 4, watched yourself light up on the world map and got to work checking out the new features in your new browser. You’re working away and per your work habits, type a search term directly into the location bar of your shiny new browser. To your dismay you realize that you’re taken to a google search results page rather than the website you intended to land on.

In version 3 of Firefox, typing keywords into the browsers location bar would automagically bring you to a website via Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky feature. If you were like me, you grew to love this feature. A great example is the fact that I would constantly forget format characters for PHP’s date function. Rather than memorize the full URL to the documentation, surf to php.net and click through to the answer or even sift through a maze of bookmarks I would just use my little Firefox trick.

Mozilla in their wisdom has disabled this by default in Firefox 4 on both Mac and PC. The procedure to change it back is the same on both so here we go:

In a new window or tab type about:config
Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!” to bypass the scary warning (do be careful… you could break your browser)
In the filter field, type “keyword.URL“
Double click the entry that comes up and in the dialog box insert the following: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Click Ok and you’re done; no other steps required

Enjoy your restored search functionality!