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.

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Using WooCommerce and the Booking & Appointment Plugin for a Campground Website

THe home page for RiffeLakeCampgroundwa.com with the booking search box

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

Design for WineMakerDepot.comThe 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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Site launch for DogsInActionOlympia.com

Starting a new business venture can be a huge amount of work and dedication.  One of the biggest pieces of the puzzle is how you will get the word out, how you will market.  Having an effective website plays a pivotal role in that marketing.  When Ann Howie decided that she wanted to change the …

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Redesign for GrowingWriters.org

When Sally Bergquist of Olympia, Washington originally came to me a couple years ago to design a website for the writing curriculum that she was developing, she was still in the early phases of her process.  Now that the curriculum is complete and ready for educators to use,  she decided that the focus of the …

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Website relaunch for Hinkle Homes

I recently was asked by the owners of Hinkle Hones Inc. to redo the theme for www.hinklehomesinc.com.  One of the features of this site is the Floor Plans page that features links to each type of house design the company builds.  In addition to rebuilding the theme, Sea-Wing Designs is also providing hosting and monthly …

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