June 2006


We enjoyed our first meeting with Susie Quick, owner of Honest Farm in Midway.  She is a very energetic and interesting lady. 

She brought a video segment she did on Good Morning America last year.  She’ll be adding it to her blog, along with lots of other recipes.  Susei has a unique take on organic food, as Susie says “Think of organic food as your grandparents food, honest food.” 

While we are getting her design set up we thought we’d test a plugin we found to do streaming video with WordPress.  So, lights, camera, action.

GMA Video

Susie Quick on GMA

We are not totally satisfied with how crisp the video is, we still need to do some tweeking.  We’ll play around with it and make it better for the launch of her site, HonestFarm.org.

 

 

We’re meeting with noted cookbook author and former New York magazine writer Susie Quick this afternoon to discuss her new web site — honestfarm.org.  We are honored and excited to work with her. 

She is the latest small business looking to do a blog for a web site.  This should be a fun project, and Susie has promised to bring us some some vegetables from her farm – now if we can just line up a butcher shop that will drop off some choice ribeye.

Seriously, Susie describes her honest farm in the following way:

“In the heart of Kentucky’s bluegrass country near the historic village of Midway, noted cookbook author Susie Quick has founded a nonprofit sustainable farm. The mission of Honest Farm is to raise community awareness of holistic farming practices by creating a children’s garden and farm stand offering fresh produce to residents and visitors to the Midway area.”

We are wanting to get the web site launched when she opens, which is in July. 

This summer take a leisurely drive down Old Frankfort Pike and stop by the Honest Farm at 484 Spring Station Road in Midway.  Oh, and don’t forget to check out her web site from time to time for organic farming information and recipes.

We added our custom EditBEE Content Management System to the KWWOA.org web site this week.  EditBEE CMS is a WYSIWYG editor that allows web site owners to make changes to their web sites without HTML or programming knowledge.  It works like an online word processor. 

We go one step further than the canned solutions that are out there.  We customize it to the specific needs of the client.  With Searcy Monument Company, we added the ability to easily manage their 20+ product galleries of over 260 photos.  Editing their textual content and photo galleries is wrapped into one simple, intuitive interface.

KWWOA needed the ability to easily edit and manage the training hours earned (CEUs) of their members.  So we added a nice little database tool to their EditBEE implementation that made updating the training hours a snap. 

In the words of Melissa at KWWOA:

“Oh my gosh, I sooooo love the training updates setup [in the EditBEE CMS].  Even I can do it!  Great, Great Job Guys! ” 

Thanks, Melissa.

Advantages of EditBEE

  • Manage your own content.  No waiting on your web design company to get around to it.
  • Affordable.  Most small business web sites can be set up for as little as $500.
  • Because it is a custom application that we built, we can easily extend it and make it work no matter the uniqueness or complexity of your site.  No canned solution here.

If you have a web site and would like to make your own changes when you want to make them, contact us today!