The website is rich in photography from the construction www.decostabuilders.com is the collaboration of the owner, Dana DeCosta, a construction veteran in Central New Hampshire and TotalScope Staff.

The website is rich in photography from the construction company’s portfolio.  The concept for the new website was to create an interface that was clean and professional looking, with branding elements that included the company’s logo and color pallette.  The green in the scheme represents their environmentally friendly building services and the blue, their calm and cool approach to their work.  We employed a series of photo slideshows to showcase the work that they have performed, understanding that customer’s want to see evidence of performance, and not just words.  However, all of the images in the slideshows were added in such a manner as to get easily indexed by the search engines offering a highly optimized website.  We even built a mobile version of the site to make it friendly to your devices.

DeCosta Construction offers services ranging from general construction contracting to winter snow plowing and sanding.  Feel free to contact them for more information.  As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the new website.  Congratulations to Dana and the staff for a job well done!

The nice part about using this platform is the ability to hand the website back to its owners and to allow them to add, edit, or delete their own content.  Making changes is extremely easy using the CMS, including the photo gallery and navigational elements.  TotalScope has worked with the clients to reach their website goals, and so far, the website has received worthy acclaim.

The website for Security Storage Inc, is http://www.securitystoragenh.com and if you are in the need for high-quality, self-storage, then we highly recommend you check them out.

After attempting many of the available Campton Village Realty in Campton, NH.  The website, www.camptonvillagerealty.com is the first site by TotalScope to incorporate an IDX, Internet Data Exchange, plugin to bring live MLS (Multiple Listing Service) real estate listings into the pages of the site.

After attempting many of the available ‘real estate’ plugins available through the community, we decided that nothing could compete with a live feed of real estate listing data from the local MLS in New Hampshire, which is the Northern New England Real Estate Network or NNEREN.  Though the Campton Village Realty website is employing the Plugin “Real Estate Plugin” to showcase its non-mls vacation rentals listings, the plugin used for the IDX far exceeds the non-IDX system.

The IDX plugin used for this application is the dsIDXpress by Diverse Solutions and for a small monthyl fee, they provide a live feed of data from most MLS’s to your website.  So far, so good.  The application seems very stable and has many features providing for much customization.  One feature in particular is the ability to add multiple variable strings to the query URL making it easy to create tailored searches of the MLS and resulting displays of the results in your own SEO friendly pages.  One example of this is how we created a query of all listings in the city of Campton, for the Agency Office of the Client.  Here is what the link looks like: http://www.camptonvillagerealty.com/idx/city/campton/?idx-q-ListingOfficeID=2343.

The plugin also allows the use of “short codes” making it extremely quick and easy to display any number of established search queries on any page of your blog.  There are many other IDX suppliers out there, and they may be very capable and stable, but for now, we are please with this.

As we are in the business of marketing our clients and are focused on results… we can’t pass up the opportunity to promote them directly here.  So… If you are looking to buy or sell real estate in central New Hampshire, check out Campton Village Realty…and the brand new website.  Campton Village Realty specializes in real estate sales and vacation rentals in the towns of Campton, Waterville Valley, Thornton, Woodstock, Lincoln, Holderness and surrounding NH towns.

We are pleased to announce that another new user interface has been recently launched by TotalScope Marketing.  Please have a look at the all new Comfort Inn & Suites Loon website at www.comfortinnloon.com.  Working over the past few months with the staff at the Comfort Inn was a

Comfort Inn New Website Launched

We are pleased to announce that another new user interface has been recently launched by TotalScope Marketing.  Please have a look at the all new Comfort Inn & Suites Loon website at www.comfortinnloon.com.  Working over the past few months with the staff at the Comfort Inn was a real pleasure.  From conceptual design to implementation, the staff worked directly with us to get a website that meets their goals of improved exposure, improved customer relations, and increased reservation activity.

Like many others, this site uses the WordPress platform, coupled with a mix of customizations to 2 different thems to create the presence we were looking for.  The color scheme &  imagery is branded to follow Choice Hotel’s requirements.  The photo galleries were chosen to show the customer the endless vacation possibilities in the client’s home area, Loon Mountain, New Hampshire.

This site is just one of many that have been in the pipeline for several months.  In the coming weeks, you can expect to see new interfaces for Campton Village Realty, The Beacon Resort, and Security Storage.

The Comfort Inn & Suites Loon is located in the growing White Mountain town of Lincoln, NH.  With access to 2 of the East’s top ski resorts, Loon and Cannon, and a wealth of vacation activities, this hotel is in prime demand.

From the plethora of themes, Drupal and WordPress (this site is a WordPress website), we can develop sites in a fraction of the time and cost of a traditional website.

From the plethora of themes, functions, plug-ins, widgets, and other fun website tools offered through these completely free software platforms, we can customize websites as if developed from scratch. The difference is the time it takes and the amount of code that can be sampled. Here’s an analogy. Imagine if you wanted to build a brand new car yourself. Chances are you’d never actually do that, but lets say you had the ambition. Would you literally machine all of the parts of the car, or would you go to a parts store and buy them? You’d go to the store. Now, you bring all of those parts home with you and you assemble them in your own garage. Of course, you need to know how they go together and work together. But, at least you don’t have to know how to run a lathe and micrometer.

Once you have the chassis put together and the engine block assembled, you start to choose the finishing touches. Color, layout, bells and whistles, etc. The car runs like a top. And, you pieced it together in a fraction of the time.

Open source software solutions like Drupal, stem from a global community of website developers that are motivated to provide the best code possible (while getting some recognition for their work) and sharing their skills with each other. The programmers are extremely talented people learning from each other as they submit projects to the community. The benefactors of all of their works, are those that choose to use the programs they’ve written for the community, like us.

TotalScope Marketing has produced a dozen or so websites, as of this date, using both Drupal and WordPress. Each have their advantages and disadvantages, but both are high quality platforms. Drupal is great for building highly interactive websites, that incorporate web 2.0 principles in a modular fashion. WordPress is one of the best softwares for setting up blogging sites and simple promotional sites.

Have a look at some of the webistes that we’ve put together and are currently working on. Each has been built using these open source platforms and each was done quickly with a relatively low cost. If you are looking to have a high quality, low cost, and quickly built site, consider employing one of these technologies, or contact us, and we’ll help YOU do it.