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Jon Miles Real Estate has All New Look!

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Becoming an independent brokerage firm meant big changes for Jon Miles Real Estate, Fennimore.

Jon Miles Real Estate logoA company logo was designed by our graphics designer, Aimee Mullarney, for all their branding, signs and marketing materials. Aimee worked directly with Jon and Stephanie Miles to create the final approved logo design.

Jon Miles Real Estate websiteA business website incorporating the new colors, layout and functionality quickly followed the logo design. Featuring their property listings is, of course, the primary focus of the site. With search capabilities comparable to the national real estate agencies, you will be able to find the property and location details quickly searching by State, City, Zip Code, School and more. You may also draw a circle or polygon around an area to see all the listings within.

Pages are also included to introduce their agents and to present their office locations in Fennimore, Platteville and Prairie du Chien, WI, along with a page about the Driftless Area in which the Jon Miles Real Estate offices are located.

Congratulations to Jon and Stephanie Miles and the entire team on this exciting business venture!

Larson Family Funeral Homes New Website

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Larson Funeral HomesWebWise Design recently launched a new website for Larson Family Funeral Homes. Troy and Leslie needed a new website. Their website had served its purpose for over a decade.

We worked closely together to develop a more mobile-friendly website, and added search function, so visitors can easily find an obituary.

Their new website features an enhanced view for obituaries, with easy-to-find visitation and service times along with burial services  information.  There is also a map with driving directions to the funeral home.

Website visitors can quickly navigate to personal obituaries, see the memorial service information, and leave private messages for the family. A page listing the local florists is also included on the website. With the new website platform, the staff at Larson's can conveniently make the necessary updates and changes.

The Larson family has been part of the greater Fennimore community for generations and have been clients for many years. Congratulations to Larson Family Funeral Homes on their new website!

New Website for Collision Specialists

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Collision Specialists SSE, Inc. has been in the collision repair business since 1967, when Jack Slack opened the Livingston location. With ten highly-skilled collision repair specialists at their Fennimore and Livingston facilities, it is the largest collision repairer in the area.

Greg and Sharon Slack decided it was time to refresh their website with a new look that better displays the extent of their services. We also urged them to talk more about their extensive and generous community support initiatives.

The team at Collision Specialists understands how disruptive accidents are for their customers. Their readily available loaner cars and rental cars can help the experience be less of a hassle.

With Master Certified Technicians, your vehicle will be repaired expertly, and an office staff that makes you feel like you are a long-time friend, you will know why you chose Collision Specialists to repair your vehicle.

Check out their new website at thecollisionspecialist.com and bookmark it!

Cooks’ Woods New Website

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There is nothing like walking through the woods and selecting your own Christmas tree.  Cook's Woods, rural Fennimore, is just the place to go for your Christmas tree. Their team also designs beautiful wreaths and specialty greenery items in addition to making garland for your holiday decorating.

Dave and Barb Cook were ready for a facelift for their website to better highlight their tree farm and the services they provide. We developed their website on a secure, high-performance WordPress hosting platform , added some new features, and kept some of the favorite elements. Dave can quickly give viewers an update on "What's Happening" at the farm, and Barb can coordinate all the wreath orders. Frequently asked questions are answered and a photo gallery gives visitors a preview of what to expect when they visit the farm.

Dave and Barb Cook have been clients since 2008. They have always been tremendous to work with and we are grateful for their continued business. Congratulations on the new website! 

History: It’s 1997 and you want a website!

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Since WebWise Design & Marketing was born in 1995 and added two employees in late 1996, and launched our first ecommerce website in February of 1997, we know what it was like to create websites in 1997.

Walsh's logo

In rural, southwest Wisconsin, the first challenge was connecting to the Internet. There were no local ISPs, so it was a long distance call from Fennimore to Madison, Wisconsin to connect via modem

The three of us at WebWise Design & Marketing each had a modem, though they all connected to the same telephone line, so only one of us could be online at a time. In 1996, we were using 28,000 "baud" modems even though a 56k modem had been invented. By June of 1997, we were overjoyed to have one computer with a 56.K modem through which we did all our file uploads.

Using that high-speed connection, we launched of first ecommerce website which you may view on the WayBackMachine.

Enough of that! Here is an excellent post about building a website in 1997 by Jay Hoffman on his History of the Web website.

Enjoy!