Walking the Golf Course

Toddy Brook Golf website is moving along well! Their opening day was last week and they have been extremely busy. We are anxious to get their entire site launched on May 1, 2008. This week we've focused on the course walk portion of the website, a feature I suggested to give potential golfers the chance to take a look at all that Toddy Brook's 9 or 18 hole course has to offer.

The current layout allows visitors to http://www.toddybrookgolf.net/ to go from Hole 1 through Hole 18 but moving forward or going backwards. The right column allows visitors to jump to a particular hole.

Hole information and tips is also being provided on each page, along with two photos, typically of the fairway and green. This has been a very rewarding project for all involved, I believe.

Personal Attention & Helping Small Businesses

It never ceases to amaze me how some businesses stay afloat when they treat their customers with disrespect. A recent client, whom you may be following in this blog, ran into this situation recently when they trying to get access to their own domain name. The former host provider not only made it difficult for the client to regain control of their own domain name, but while holding the name "hostage", deleted the website and put a nasty note about business ethics. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

In small communities like we have here in Maine, I would think most smart business owners would know better. Good word travel fast ... but bad word travels even faster!

Once the client regained control of their domain name, I had their original domain name http://www.toddybrookgolf.com/ restored and set to reflect their new domain name http://www.toddybrookgolf.net/. Success for all in the end!

Handling this situation professionally has since brought me several referrals. Personal attention when needed and helping the local small businesses is what my business is all about. I'm looking forward to completing the website for Toddy Brook Golf by May 1, 2008. So stay tuned.

On Google in Less than a Week!

Toddy Brook Golf Course had a gorgeous Spring day in Maine to open. Their website has been making progress as well. In less than 5 days from putting the initial "emergency website" up for them, Google has picked it up. When searching for them by name - which the locals are apt to do - they already appear on the first page. Now that is fast service!

My goal is to show you that even if you run into trouble with your current designer or host provider, there are ways you can get up and running quickly.

Stay tuned as more pages will be launched before the end of this week.

Supporting Local Small Businesses

As I mentiond on my Website Portfolio page and Flying Change Webs News page, I was in a unique situation, allowing me to fully support my philosophy of helping small businesses in Maine and throughout New England. Toddy Brook Golf Course had experienced some trouble with their previous website design and hosting company and needed to get their web presence back ... and FAST!

Step 1: Working together, we were able to put this new placeholder page in on the web within 24 hours. I also re-registered with the major search engines and began listing http://www.toddybrookgolf.net/ in golf directories.