Enter The Net

Enter The Net is happy to design websites. Here is our philosophy when it comes to website design:

Enter The Net designs websites FOR ITS CLIENTS. This means that we listen to what you want, offer our advice and then create the site you request.

What does this mean? Well, we are tired of hearing from people that their website designer “didn’t listen” to them or that the designer basically just made what he or she thought would work best. It’s your website – you should get what YOU want.

It also means that we work extremely well with Graphic Designers. If you come to us with a good design for a website that a Graphic Designer has created for you, we can convert that into a working website. That’s called “coding” and it is our specialty.

Here are some of our OTHER specialties in website design:

Search Engine Optimization. It’s our passion.
Lead-Generation Focus. This means that we advise you to add design concepts that turn site visitors into usable leads.
Forms. Including lots of forms for visitors to fill out is a great way to convert visitors into leads. We love forms.
Video and Graphics. A picture is worth a thousand words and video is worth a hundred thousand.
Ongoing Support. We are generous with our help for years after the site is designed because we know that your needs may change over time.
Blog Installation. Adding a blog to your site allows you to easily freshen your site’s content. We favor WordPress as a blog platform.

Enter The Net loves to do website design/search engine optimization packages. We also love to design sites for people using WordPress. WordPress is a flexible blog system that can be used to create websites that are attractive, highly functional and easy for the site owner to manage. We know of no better system for client-managed content. That means you can go to your website ANYTIME to change the content.

We do not design in Flash, ASP or Cold Fusion. Our favorites are HTML and PHP.

Click HERE to read more about designing sites with WordPress.
Click HERE to see some of our Custom Design Success Stories.
Click HERE to see some of our WordPress Design Success Stories.

If you are interested in learning more about our website design services, please fill out the form below.

Below are some links and descriptions related to WordPress Blogs. The resources are listed for HOSTED and INSTALLED blogs.

HOSTED Blogs are free blogs built on the wordpress.com system.

Advantages:

• Free
• Easy to create, easy to use.
• Around 75 good themes available for use.
• Most themes allow you to add your own logo or custom header image.
• Free blogs are great to use to learn the WordPress system.
• Your blog exists in a searchable network of other blogs.
• Links from your free WordPress blog to your main website are helpful on the search engines.

HOSTED blogs use WordPress’s extensive free hosting. Most free WordPress blogs use the domain name www.[yourblogname].wordpress.com.

Links:

• WordPress.com to set up your free blog.

INSTALLED blogs are installed on your hosting service, using your domain name.

Advantages:

• Choice of themes is around 1000.
• Themes can be customized to your liking.
• Thousands of plug ins available to increase site functionality.
• Your blog exists at your domain name.
• Blog can be utilized as your whole site, or it can be installed as a separate part of your site.

Links:

• A good place to buy your domain name: GoDaddy.
• A good place to host your website and/or blog: Go Daddy.
  • This hosting service has an automatic, free WordPress installation service that is quick and easy and saves you several steps.
  • You may register your domain name and host under the same account.
• Themes: You can pick from thousands of themes by simply searching on Google for “free wordpress themes.” There are also websites that sell quality themes at a good price.
  • Official WordPress Themes Directory – around 800 themes. All have been checked for quality.
  • WPThemes Free – Excellent, colorful themes. Some have quality problems.
  • I Love You WordPress - New resource has free and priced themes.
• Plug ins allow you to add functionality to your site. I recommend only using plug ins from the official WordPress plugin directory.
  • Official WordPress Plugin Directory.

Note: WordPress 2.8 has a nifty system that allows you to search for themes and plugins and install them on your site without having to do any FTP work. You simply click “Add New” under Appearance or Plugins and you can search the official WordPress Directories, or you may upload a theme or plugin you found at another source.

Enter The Net has helped dozens of people set up their HOSTED and INSTALLED blogs. Please check the links below, visit the sites and leave comments, if you like!

Our Work:

WordPress Blogs Customized to Match Existing Site Design:

• BioForce Baseball – Portland-based baseball coach dispenses advice and sells training products. Enter the Net customized the blog to match the current site design. Click on HOME tab to see the main site design.
• Primal Body – Primal Mind – Author Nora Gedgaudas has a blog installed on her regular website. Enter The Net installed and customized the blog to match the existing site design. Click on the HOME tab to see the main site.

Custom Design WordPress Blogs:

• Fabulous PDX - Customization to match Facebook look and feel, with addition of Google Calendar and Ads Management plugin.
• Team Oregon 2010 – Light customization for non-profit organization.
• Cocohuts – Light customization for site promoting vacation rental in Hawaii.
• NW Insight - Portland neurofeedback therapist.
• NW Roof Tech – Portland roofing contractor.
• OSH Museum – Museum at the old Oregon State (mental) Hospital

Students:

• Jewel In The Pearl – Portland realtor Jewel Robinson gives us a tour of Portland’s Pearl District. Jewel learned to create this blog in Enter The Net’s blogging workshop. We set up the hosting and installed the blog components for her to use. This is an example of an INSTALLED blog.
• Close In PDX – Realtor Steve Strode shares information about property and events close in downtown Portland.