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New Trillium Midwifery Website

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The WebWise Design & Marketing team had the privilege of working with Alison Spany to design and develop an all-new look for Trillium Midwifery, located in Boscobel, Wisconsin. Alison and her team provide home and birth center options for women with low-risk pregnancies throughout southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa.

Trillium Midwifery serves a clientele seeking a more natural birth experience. Births can take place either in the comfort of the client’s home or at the Trillium Midwifery Clinic and Birth Center in Boscobel.

Alison also had four excellent videos, including a tour of the clinic and birth center. We recommended creating a Custom YouTube Channel @TrilliumMidwifery (to showcase these videos and take full advantage of the benefits it offers—especially improved SEO (search engine optimization) for her website.

 

 

Carr Valley Cheese Continues Winning World Championship Cheese Awards!

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Carr Valley Cheese - Logo

Master Cheesemaker, and Carr Valley Cheese owner, Sid Cook with his team of cheesemakers and support staff claimed three more World Champion Cheese  Awards!  This time it was at the 2026 World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin!

Out of 3,375 entries from cheesemakers around the world, the award-winning Carr Valley cheesemakers had a Best of Class Award with their Sante cheese.

This semi-firm cheese is made with fresh Sheep milk and slightly aged for a rich and nutty flavor like no other.

World Cheese Championship. Award Winning - Carr Valley Cheese Sante

The awards didn’t end there. The Carr Valley Cheese cheesemakers added two Third Place award winners with their Caso Bolo Mellage and Garlic Bread Cheese.

Carr Valley Cheese Caso Bola Mellage Cheese photo
Carr Valley Cheese Garlic Bread Cheese - Photo

Do yourself a favor. Visit carrvalleycheese.com to order Award-Winning Carr Valley Cheese online or visit one of their southern Wisconsin Carr Valley Cheese Retail Store locations.

Don't forget to buy some of their Cheese Curd to eat on the way home!

Community Connections Free Clinic – Dodgeville, WI

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Community Connections Free ClinicWe recently had the opportunity to design, develop and launch a new website for the Community Connections Free Clinic in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, an organization doing truly important work for individuals and families who otherwise might not have access to basic healthcare services.

Dan Smith, before his retirement as Director of the Community Connections Free Clinic reached out to WebWise Design & Marketing and we we discussed developing a new website.

From the beginning, this project was about more than just a fresh design. The clinic needed a website that was clear, welcoming, and easy to use for patients, volunteers, and supporters alike — many of whom may be visiting the site during stressful or uncertain moments.

One of the important goals for the project was ensuring the website works equally well in both English and Spanish making sure language was not a barrier to finding care, understanding services, or reaching out for help. The result is a bilingual website that allows visitors to easily view content in the language they’re most comfortable with.

We focused on keeping the layout clean and straightforward, with clear navigation and content that gets to the point. Visitors can quickly learn about clinic services, how to schedule appointments, how to volunteer, and how to support the clinic’s mission. The site was also designed to work smoothly on mobile devices, recognizing that many users will be accessing it from a phone.

Most importantly, we fell the website reflects the heart of Community Connections Free Clinic — compassionate care, community support, and dignity for every patient they serve.

We’re proud to have partnered with Community Connections Free Clinic on this project and to help support their mission through a website that serves their community well.  You can view the finished site here: https://ccfcwi.org/

WebWise – Looking Back Thirty Years

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On October 24, 1995, WebWise Design and Marketing went live with our first three Client websites.

I created those websites at no cost to them in the early years, so WebWise Design & Marketing would have a client list online.

In 1995, not many people in Southwest Wisconsin, or anywhere else, knew much, if anything, about the World Wide Web or even the Internet. If I could get someone to listen, I had to explain what the Internet and the World Wide Web were, and why they'd want to pay me to put their business, community, or organization online.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) was first used to create the very first websites in 1991. The first official version, HTML 1.0, was released in 1993. In 1995, HTML 2.0 was published with a few minor improvements.

Creating page layouts was definitely a challenge. Paragraph tags separated content. We used transparent, one-pixel spacer GIFs. We laid out pages by designating how many horizontal or vertical spaces to use. In 1997, tables became available, which made displaying content in **rows and columns**! At the time, it was a very big deal, though tables quickly taught us how code impacts performance and page load time.

Well, that's enough for now of the earliest years here at WebWise.

More to come later…

 

 

 

WebWise Celebrates 30 years on the Web

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WebWise 30 Years imageOn October 8, 1995, WebWise Design & Marketing made its first appearance on what everyone was calling the "World Wide Web." Since then, we’ve seen the web evolve — from the dial-up era of AOL floppy disks, bulletin boards, and spacer GIFs to today's websites with mobile-friendly design, SEO, and AI.

Through every phase, our mission has stayed the same: We design and develop professional websites that provide results for businesses, municipalities, and organizations. Southwest Wisconsin and beyond.

The saying "it takes a village" is literally true when it comes to owning and operating a small business, and our village is filled with incredible people. We are deeply grateful to our loyal clients in and around Fennimore, including the City of Fennimore, the Fennimore Area Chamber of Commerce, the Grant County Economic Development Corporation, and many more.

I will be forever grateful to a key member of our "village" in 1995. Matt Johnson. He kindly published a "Wells Bets on the Web" article "above the fold in the Fennimore Times. He not only introduced WebWise, it was the first introduction of the World Wide Web to many in our area.

I am also immensely grateful for my extremely talented, proficient, and caring WebWise team members, past and present, who made this journey possible.

Thank you all so very much, as WebWise continues doing what we’ve always done — developing client websites that look great, work as they should and get found!