Pittsburgh-South.com

CHALLENGE: To build a community web site packed with the most valuable, new "Web 2.0" features for the least investment of time and money, and without reinventing the wheel.

SOLUTION: After examing over ten content management systems to find the most feature-rich, customizable, and expandable software platform, we found that a simpler solution was in the end the least limiting.

Using the online-site submission form and Bulletin Board, visitors to Pittsburgh-South.com can

• Post links to their favorite web sites
• Contribute articles, photographs, recipes, video clips, music and more
• List items for sale and place and business listings for free

There is a nominal charge for display advertising.

Although recently begin, Pittsburgh-south. com is already generating a great deal of excitement throughout the city's south side and south suburbs. To advertise on Pittsburgh-south.com or to contribute to the development of this site or one of our other Pittsburgh-area community portals, please call David Luff at 412-499-3071, send an email or submit our contact form.

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AP Home Services

CHALLENGE: AP Home Solutions needed a web site to showcase their home improvement business in Pittsburgh and Southwest Pennsylvania.

As the client wanted the site online by the time of an important home show, time was of the essence.

The client's unstated goal was to attract visitors to their Home Show exhibit through the Website.

The question was this: How would we get a brand new Website that nobody knew about to be seen by enough prospective visitors to promote the client's exhibit at the Show?

SOLUTION: We designed an attractive, ten-page web site with pages devoted to roofing, replacement windows, siding, and replacement gutters, all in the context of the region's climate.

To get the new site the exposure it deserved, we purchased highly-focused Google Adwords that, for a total investment of under $50.00, got AP Home Service's Google ads seen by over ten thousand people searching for the Monroeville Home Show and the Duquesne Home and Garden Show.

Visit AP Home Services' Website.

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Buffet 21

CHALLENGE: Buffet 21, tenedor libre or all you can eat buffet restaurant in Montevideo, Uruguay, was the newest and, possibly, the largest restaurant of its kind in Montevideo. Buffet 21 needed an informative, imaginative site to distinguish itself from the many other tenedor libre restaurants in the city and to drive customers to its great new restaurant.

SOLUTION: Before we designed the site, we spent hours at Buffet 21, getting photos that would help us create a web experience that leaves Website visitors feeling they have been to Buffet 21, the restaurant, and not just to a Website depiction. In part thanks to our Google Adwords advertising and in part thanks to an exciting web design, within its first two months online, the Buffet 21.com site had thousands of visitors from Uruguay and all over South America. Buffet 21 has seen an incredible increase in business since its Site has been online. Have a look at the Buffet 21 site.

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