The Adventures of Avery Ann

See the website live.

The Adventures of Avery Ann, written by Leah Jocelyn MacKenzie and illustrated by Justin Smelser & Perrine Solara, is the magical tale of a little girl’s dive into the ocean to find her golden charm bracelet.

Volunteer of the Year

Carolyn Phillips is awarded the prestigious Volunteer of the Year award by Habitat for Humanity – Cottage Grove Area.  Carolyn, co-owner of KizmeTech developed the website for the local branch of Habitat for Humanity in an effort to bring more visibility and funds to the organization.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity seeks to help eliminate substandard housing by building simple affordable homes.

Sustainable Content Development

Sustainable Content Development Starts in Phase I Planning

It is important for businesses developing content for their business site, or any article or post that plays a part in your on-line presence, that they first develop a long-term content development plan and a scalable structure.

For example, if you wanted to add a statistics page related to your industry but you haven’t gathered that data yet. You still need to launch your website without it, so you do two things:

• Plan a scalable structure – find no more than 7 main “categories” of information on your site. Let’s use an example that seems pretty flexible. Home | About | Products/Services | Portfolio | Contact | News. That seems like it would cover just about anything. A statistics page could fit quite nicely under News. It is also beneficial to consider how your blog “categories” relate to your site structure, there is a brilliant and powerful internal linking strategy in having a footer link on your site to each blog category, as well as blog links in the sidebar of your site navigation. There are other ways as well, this is just an example.

• Develop content for both Phase I and Phase II – Mention the importance of statistics, or better yet use a pretty dramatic and relevant statistic on your home page and product/services landing pages. Then, when you have the content page ready you can put in a hypertext link to it from those pages. This has an enormously beneficial effect because it is both enhancing the visitor experience as well as following Search Engine Optimization best practices. The theory is that a contextual link has a higher relevancy factor than a navigational or “link page” link, even for internal linking.

You will also, of course then add the full statistics page in the News section as well.

So if you get a content idea, either for your site or your blog, consider where it fits in your structure/categories and always consider internal linking best practices for full SEO benefit.

Growing the Grove

Downtown Cottage Grove, Oregon

We built this WordPress site for a partnership between The City of Cottage Grove, The Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce and The Economic and Business Improvement District (EBID) in order to show businesses who may be looking to move, that we are a low cost, sustainable business environment.