Congratulations to the hard-working folks who volunteer their time to produce Sunday Afternoon Live.  Your efforts earned front cover of Coast Weekend this week!

Thank you for all you do to bring quality entertainment to Pacific County!

Read the article.

This web development project, headed up by Karl, was a great example of taking an existing site and bringing it into the new era of what works.  The internet changes so quickly, both in terms of what ‘toys’ are available to a site owner to make their site attractive, functional, and ’sticky,’ and with what technologies and tactics work best to get your site found.

Pat came to us with a well-designed, html-based site that had gotten a little out-of-date from a technology perspective.  She was relying on a webmaster to make the majority of changes to the site, an effort which was, by nature, frequent.  Changes in that relationship left her unable to edit her site in the way she needed and she came to us for a solution.

Recreating her site using WordPress solved several of Pat’s challenges.  She was able to keep the look and feel that she liked, while giving the site a face lift.  She gained an easy-to-use interface that lets her edit most every aspect of the site herself, adding, changing, and deleting posts, pages, and pictures; it’s all in her hands.

Our hosting package gave Pat the email boxes she needed.

Kathy was also able to upgrade Pat’s search engine optimization, making the site “Google-friendly” so she will gain a strong, organic, search rank.  Because the site is blog-based, Pat should see a strong organic result quickly.

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If you live in Pacific County, Washington, and don’t know about this group, you’re going to be so happy you read this!

Sunday Afteroon Live was originally founded to give senior residents quality musical entertainment during the fall and winter months.  Venues changed until the group grew and adopted the Raymond Theater as their permanent venue. Meanwhile, the group’s reputation soared as enthusiastic audiences of all ages packed the theater.  Performers coming through Raymond on their way to other venues made stopovers to perform on Sundays for grateful audiences.  Sunday Afternoon Live now attracts both residents and visitors from the Long Beach Peninsula, Grays Harbor area, Lewis County and Astoria, Oregon and includes educational programs in local schools.

The historic theater itself is magical, with great acoustics and comfortable seating.  Have we not tantalized you enough?  Take a look at this season’s schedule.  Keleigh is particularly excited that the Alley Cats are coming in March.  She first saw the doo-wop band at Disneyland, while in college and, about ten years later, in Las Vegas (regrettably, she missed the White House performance for President Clinton).  They’ll be doing Vegas with Jay Leno in September but you can see them in Raymond in March!

This is one of many stellar performances procured by Sunday Afternoon Live.  As a charitable non-profit, the group needed a website that offered them a lot of editing flexibility without incurring regular maintenance bills.  We set them up in WordPress, our blog software of choice, with a simple theme that echoes their existing promotional materials, and we provided some training to get them up and running to edit the site themselves. The site has easy-to-use PayPal buttons for making donations and buying tickets to shows.

Check out the Board of Directors and Sponsors pages and, when you see these fine people, give them a huge pat on the back.  This is what community volunteerism is all about!

Do you have your tickets for Bob Milne’s Peninsula appearance on the 8th?  This is a must-see event.  Bob, an internationally acclaimed musician, is as much an educator as an entertainer and he weaves stories throughout the fabric of his performance.  Seriously, he’s amazing.

With your entrance ticket, you get an hour of time to enjoy the World Kite Museum before the program begins, and some noshes and nibbles to boot.  Come, enjoy!

I’m reminded that I’m supposed to be writing about the products we produced for the event.  Oops!  This year’s materials were especially fun because the event coordinators tossed the facts at us and gave us free reign to design and print.  One of our vendors went through their “paper graveyard”, leftovers from other jobs, which let us design for a double-sided, letter-sized post card for less than a flyer would have cost.  We printed the tickets at the same time, business card size.  Combining the jobs gave us a sweeter printing price than if we had done them as standalones.  Thanks for the freedom, World Kite Museum!