By Merv on 01 09, 14
DAX Safety & Staffing website gets a facelift on a modern Wordpress patform and new theme.
Site features onclude:
- Homepage slider highlighting a range of services and important content
- Custom development and installation of random content on the home page (Toolbox Talk)
- Secure contact forms
- A special Blog feature call news
- Completely developed for the highest SEO ranking using Yoast SEO features
- Social Media "Share" functionality
DAX Safety & Staffing implements and manages safety programs for a variety of clients on a wide variety of projects! Their client list includes some of the largest corporations.
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Vineyard theme, Wordpress
By Merv on 04 28, 13
The renound Scottish entertainer and my good friend Alex Beaton has a new website: AlexBeaton.com. The new site is developed on the Wordpress platform, the Nexus responsive theme and the fully integrated Marketpress eCommerce plugin. Alex sufferred a severe spinal cord injury late in 2011 and now relies on selling his music as well as donations to support his extensive medical costs.
The new site has many features which brings his music store clearly in focus to include:
- A responsive site to display on PC's, tablets and smart phones,
- MarketPress fully integrates seamlessly with PayPal Express checkout.
- A fully functional Blog to easily update and interact with his fan base
- Featured products including sample audio tracks of his popular CD's.
- Full functioning with Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter as well as standard RSS feeds
- A complete photo gallery of his CD's, Scotland tours and personal photos.
Be sure to visit and experience all the cool features. While you're at it, check it his music and make a purchase. Become a fan!!
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Marketpress, Nexus theme, Wordpress
By Merv on 04 28, 13
Carter Braxton Preferred Properties, our popular Leesburg Bokerage site, underwent a major upgrade of platform software and functionality with extensive customization of Wordpress, OpenHouse theme and dsIDXpress. New features include:
- Preferred Properties to display listing by many categories such as:
- Property features
- Property type
- Location
- Price range and
- Preview, Private & Sold
- Custom selection and display of Land, Residential, Farms & Estates and Hsitoric listings
- Listings with multiple agents
- Individual contact forms for each agent
Software includes:
- Worpress 3.5.1
- OpenHouse (IDX Version) 4.3
- dsIDXpress 2.0.22
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged dsIDXpress, OpenHouse theme, Wordpress
By Merv on 03 28, 13

With the major changes our favorite vintner, Mike Carroll, recently made to his business, the website was due for an upgrade. The Leesburg Vintner recently gained approval by the State of Virginia to operate as a Loudoun County winery. Complete with their own vineyard, the Leesburg Vintner in downtown Leesburg is now the Carroll Vineyards tasting room as well as a complete wine store.
The new website is built on Wordpress on, what else, The Vineyard theme from Red Factory. The theme comes with extensive customization options and we made several modifications to produce the site presentation just the way we wanted it.
The home page slider images were maticulously edited and sized to achieve the professional look.
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Vineyard, Vintner, wine, Wordpress
By Merv on 02 05, 13
The Animal Rescuers of Florida is our most recent custom WordPress site. The Advocate Theme from Two2Twelve was developed for non-profits and was installed and heavily customized to achieve the look and feel desired by Animal Rescuers. We have it working with the latest WordPress release (3.5.1).
The Advocate theme includes significant implementation of jQuery features which makes for awesome image management and slide shows. It also features several custom post types including:
- Events (with the jQuery Calendar)
- Sponsors
- Features (a special post type for promoting non-profit services)
- Galleries (a unique way to highlight animals in need of care)
The theme also has a nice way of presenting donation requests.
Continue reading “Animal Rescuers of Florida”
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Advocate, non-profit, Wordpress
By Merv on 12 01, 12
If you created a personal or business Fan Page on Facebook, there may be more you want to present than your posts and comments. Now you can and it's very affordable.
We are now offering Custom Fan Pages for Facebook. Have a style and color scheme? We will create as many different pages you need to match your personal presence or business brand.
Take a look at these examples on Facebook:
We have many design options including:
- Custom Layout
- Single pages
- Multiple pages with a navigation bar
- All kinds of butttons for links
- Slideshows
- Like and Recommend Facebook buttons
- Like gates
- Friend gates
- Sweepstakes
- And much more ...
Want more information including price, give us a call @ 703-431-2145. Or, simply leave a message as a comment below or use our Contact Us page.
Posted in Facebook, Facebook Fan Pages, Portfolio, Services
| Tagged Facebook, Fan Pages
By Merv on 07 09, 12
The River Church of Bishop is our most recent custom WordPress site. The Echelon Theme for MySiteMyWay was installed and heavily customized to achieve the look and feel desired by the client.
The Echelon theme includes significant implementation of jQuery features which makes for awesome image management, slide shows and jCarousel. Other features we added and interfaced successfully to the theme include the Wordpress Eventify plugin using jQuery Full Calendar and added interfaces to Google Calendar. Eventify was heavily modified to achieve the desired result.
Continue reading “The River Church of Bishop, CA”
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Wordpress
By Merv on 04 24, 12
Our newest custom Wordpress site goes live April 24, 2012. Carter Braxton Preferred Properties is an independently owned and operated real estate firm located in historic downtown Leesburg, VA.
The new site, carterbraxtonproperties.com is built on the latest Wordpress platform and incorporates the popular "OpenHouse RealEstate" theme with the premium dsIDXpress integration. The IDX interface gives users direct access the the regional Multiple Listing Serivce know as MRIS, one of the largest in the US.
Continue reading “Carter Braxton Preferred Properties, LLC”
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| Tagged Wordpress
By Merv on 04 06, 12
The Consulting Professional site becomes the official website of the Accredited Consultant in Real Estate™ (ACRE) program. It is a complete redevelopment and transition of The Consulting Times, the former site for ACRE.
It is our second live site built on the Movable Type 5+ platform with extensive jQuery application and modal dialogs. JQuery provides a much cleaner user interface and linits the amount of page reloading to retrieve new content.
This is another new program for Jennifer Allan-Hagedorn; SWS author, coach and real estate consultant.

and the ACRE 2.0 team
Features include:
Continue reading “The Consulting Professional”
Posted in MovableType, Portfolio
| Tagged jQuery, Movable Type, mySQL, PHP
By Merv on 02 13, 12
Gwen Pangle, a long time Loudoun County Real Estate agent and Associate/Managing Broker for several firms, opened her own brokerage in 2011: Pangle & Associates. We developed her new website on Wordpress customizing the Twenty-Ten standard template to showcase her new brand and logo.
Continue reading “Pangle & Associates”
Posted in Portfolio, WordPress
| Tagged Wordpress