It is very common that someone will want to include a link to a PDF document in the text of a post. The process wasn’t very logical in earlier versions, but with the Block Editor it has become simple. This video shows you both ways. I hope you enjoy. Leave a comment below if you have any questions.
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Piccolo Pete Book Launch
It has been a long time coming, but Sea-Wing Designs has published the children’s book by Author Granny Gaddy, “Piccolo Pete — A Musical Tale”. This book is available for sale at GrannyGaddy.com (also designed by Sea-Wing Designs). Piccolo Pete is a delightful story about a small little pig who wants to play in the marching band, but all of the instruments are too big for him. Then he discovers with delight, the piccolo!Â
The book was written by Granny Gaddy. The layout and design was done by Jason Earrame. The photography team included Jerry Gaddy, Coral Earrame and Jason Earrame. The editing wad done by Mary Earrame. Â
Take a look at this short video I made when we got the books delivered:
Black Friday – Cyber Monday Sale!!
Our Website Overhauls Won’t Break the Bank
You didn’t think we did sales, did you? This is a first for us. It’s not easy coming up with sale packages for high quality websites or e-commerce shop designs. But this year we decided to try it to help you get that beautiful website out of your imagination and onto the world wide web.
Our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale runs from midnight PST on Thursday, November 22nd until midnight PST on Monday, November 26th.
Our sale packages offer a choice of premium, professional themes with high quality responsive features that are sure to impress site visitors. Our sites are mobile-friendly and our e-commerce shops are elegant and easy to use. Included in both of our sale packages are twelve months of FREE web hosting including security certificates, software updates and security scans. Our Premium E-Commerce Starter Package also offers unlimited bandwidth, daily site backups, spam removal, and monthly site reports.
Home built sites never quite work out the way you want, can cause frustration and end up gathering dust. Whether it’s for business or blogging, our customized websites work for you. The initial investment allows for a usable website that doesn’t break due to lack of upgrades, broken themes, security problems or viruses. Our maintenance packages take care of any site problems for you so you don’t need to worry about them.
So Here Are the Deals –
1. Premium Mobile-Friendly Website Starter Package
- WordPress installation
- Choose from one of three mobile-friendly, professional themes
- Personalized menu and header with your logo or branding colors or images
- Five pages – home, about, contact, blog, and 1 other
- Basic Essential suite of plug-ins
Plus 1 year of FREE web hosting which includes:
- Full web hosting on Dreamhost servers
- Up to 5 email addresses
- Free security certificate
- Access to hosting control panel
- Quarterly security scans
- Quarterly database optimization
- Quarterly WordPress software updates
- Quarterly report of the updates on your site
Sale Price: $999
Full price: $1500
2. Premium E-Commerce Starter Package
- WordPress upgrade includes choice of mobile-friendly, professional, WP theme
- Personalized menu and header with your logo or branding colors or images
- Basic Essential suite of plug-ins
- Basic shop suite with up to 10 items
- Your choice of Paypal or SquareUp for customer payments
Plus 1 year of FREE deluxe web hosting which includes:
- Full web hosting on Dreamhost servers
- Up to 5 email addresses
- Access to hosting control panel
- Free premium security certificate
- Monthly software updates of the WordPress core files, plug-ins and themes for security and function enhancements
- Monthly database optimization
- Monthly report of the updates on your site
- Full web hosting on Linux servers
- Access to hosting control panel
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Daily backups
- Monthly virus and malware scans
- Monthly spam removal
- SEO keyword monitoring
- Visitor tracking
- Database optimization
- Uptime monitoring
- Monthly report delivered to your email detailing all of these updates
AND SEO report for your current site.
Sale Price: $2399
Full price: $3200
Fill out the form below to order your Premium Mobile-Friendly Website Starter Package or Premium E-Commerce Starter Package.
Website launch for DeMilitaPhotography.com
Every once in a while I get to work on a site that is truly enjoyable to look at. Jim DeMilita is a spectacular nature and wildlife photographer. Each image is a treat for the eyes. He has been travelling the world taking photography of remote places for years and has sold his hand crafted prints in various markets. He has finally decided to make some of his images available in a brand new website!
Since this is Jim’s first foray into online presentation of his work, he really wanted to go simple. He is not offering any of his prints for sale through his website, but can make arrangements if you contact him directly. Therefore, the main focus of the website is the galleries. They are built using the “Gallery by Supsystic” premium plugin. The simplicity of this plugin allows him to be able to add new images as he processes them.
I hope you enjoy DeMilitaPhotography.com as much as I do.
The Great American Eclipse Road Trip
In a sad time in history for general scientific understanding, it has been encouraging to see north Americans embrace astronomy and flock to a narrow band across the girth of the country to witness the total solar eclipse of 2017. If you were one of the lucky ones to be near the center line of the totality, you had the chance for about 2 minutes, to see the world it a completely different light.
Totality is the moment when the moon passes between the earth and the sun. During certain eclipses when the moon is on a closer orbital path to the earth and is exactly lined up, the moon will relatively cover the entire view of the sun. When this happens, the bright rays of the sun are shielded allowing us a rare view of the corona (the outer glow) and solar flares that extend beyond the surface of the sun. Also, without the bright sun, the sky turns dark and we see planets and bright stars that we would only normally see at night. [Read more…] about The Great American Eclipse Road Trip
Using WooCommerce and the Booking & Appointment Plugin for a Campground Website
Recently, the owner of Riffe Lake Campground, in Mossy Rock, WA approached Sea-Wing Designs to create a booking system for their website. They planned to use Authroize.net SIM as their payment gateway and needed a way for their customers to book tent, RV and cabin reservations and smoothly make payments online. After a lot of searching and testing, we decided to use a combination of the well established WooCommerce shopping cart plugin with the Booking & Appointment plugin by tychesoftwares.com.
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Graphic Design for Olympia Based Wine Equipment Business Website
The process of building an e-commerce website involves many steps. After the initial brainstorming session where the requirements of the new online store are outlined and a structure for the website is decided upon, the next step is allowing the graphic designer or design team to create the look for the new website. In the case of WineMakersDepot.com, the site was already using a shopping cart system, but was in dire need of an updated look and better organization to their product listings. They came to Sea-Wing Designs to work with their developer and create a series of graphic designed photo-shop files that were then used as blueprints for the new website.
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