New MLS Agent Site – Jennifer Brown

ICND recently launched a custom and affordable MLS site for local agent, Jennifer Brown. Jennifer Brown specializes in Ocean Isle Beach real estate and is an expert in the area that ICND calls home!

Jennifer Brown’s new “NC Homes by the Sea” agent site features a custom color palette, a featured property widget, MLS Quick Search and scrolling beach-themed photos. Jennifer’s goal is to “help you find the perfect home.” Her new user-friendly, easily searchable agent site assists her clientele in locating their perfect vacation getaway or ideal home. If you’re looking to sell, she specializes in getting your home sold too!

We encourage you to check out Jennifer Brown’s agent site, learn about the beautiful Ocean Isle and surrounding Brunswick Beaches area and browse beautiful island homes. If you’re interested in an affordable agent solution, similar to Jennifer’s custom site, please contact our team today!

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NC Coastal Property, MLS 3D & Lead Tracker Upgrade

InterCoastal Net Designs values our longtime customers. We take time to review our clients websites and make suggestions to keep their online presence modern and effective. Bob Williams Realty of the Ocean Isle Beach and Brunswick Beaches area is a prime example of this with having recently undergone a MLS 3D upgrade. Our MLS 3D product is an updated version of our MLS integrations that many clients have on their sites. MLS 3D features a sleek and user-friendly interface, hopefully allowing potential clients to search with ease and eventually purchase or book a property.

The ICND team also completed a few Content Management System updates with the addition of our Lead Tracker. This allows the real estate agent to capture leads, properly manage the leads and hopefully convert them into a sale! Other fabulous Lead Tracker features automated email responses, customizable reports, round robin lead assignments and records of all correspondence.

InterCoastal Net Designs strives to help give our clients a boost and we’re excited about the functionality updates complete on the Bob Williams Realty site. If you’re feeling like it’s time to give your website a boost – contact us today!

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Responsive Design Booking Engine Site Launched

As the ICND team mentioned on our blog back in March, we’ve now launched our very FIRST vacation rental website with a responsive design. Check out the new and improved booking engine on Southern Coast Vacations, it’s user-friendly on a tablet or smartphone too – perfect for searching AND booking a rental while on the go.

Not only is the new and improved Southern Coast Vacations website featuring a responsive booking engine, it’s sporting a new design too! The new look brings the entire website up to date while allowing clients to find rental availability and pricing with ease.

Responsive programming and fresh design are two key components of a successful website, however, we also developed a custom content management system which allows Southern Coast Vacations to add/edit/delete content and photos as they please.

Our hope is to assist more new and current clients with responsive design, we simply cannot stress enough the importance of having your website correspond with the device the user is on. Having a website that’s hard to navigate on a tablet or smartphone can drive a potential client away from your website in no time! It’s time to cater to the mobile user, is your website responsive??

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4 Sites in One! The Lachicotte Company

InterCoastal Net Designs launched the new Lachicotte Company website that features four separate sites in one for their various divisions, Commercial Real Estate, Pawleys Island Residential Sales, Myrtle Beach Residential Sales and Pawleys Island Vacation Rentals. The Lachicotte Company boosts a brand new look, as well as completely customized functionality on their new ICND-built website. With offices in both Myrtle Beach & Pawleys Island, The Lachicotte Company covers a wide territory and they needed a website that reflects all of their MLS and vacation rental listings.

We completed a Property Plus booking engine integration for The Lachicotte Company, as well as a MLS integration with the Coastal Carolina MLS. The MLS integration was completed on three separate platforms, commercial, Myrtle Beach and Pawleys. Each of these sections of the website is designed to have it’s own unique feel, yet represent the brand as a whole!

The Lachicotte Company also realizes the importance of organic rankings and they are participating in Search Engine Optimization with the ICND team. We’re excited to boost their visibility throughout the Grand Strand region, as well as throughout the internet. This is sure to be a successful partnership and we thank The Lachicotte Company for the opportunity to develop their site and handle their SEO campaign.

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Dr. Renee Healing Art – Coming Soon!

InterCoastal Net Designs has recently partnered with Dr. Renee Healing Art, an exciting new endeavor that involves using artwork to enhance the connection between practitioners and patients while achieving wholeness and well-being. We launched their splash page this week, it outlines the mission statement of Dr. Renee Healing Art and showcases a few products.

Eventually, ICND will be working with the client to develop this into a full blown E-Commerce website. Although we’ve assisted many clients with their E-commerce sites, this is the first website we will develop that involves artwork, and a mission as unique as Dr. Renee Healing Art. Unique projects are always exciting for both ICND and the client. We love showing off our talents by trying our hand at something new!

We encourage you to visit the beautiful splash page, and stay tuned to our blog to follow the progress of this exciting undertaking between InterCoastal Net Designs & Dr. Renee Healing Art!

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Congratulations Chris Johnson On Your 200th Cut-up! Now what’s a “Cut-Up?”

We’d like to take the time here at InterCoastal Net Designs to congratulate one of our own, Chris Johnson, for his 200th “cut-up.” Technically not a “cut-up” anymore, Chris has been working on ICND sites where he converts an incoming design and produces that design into a workable web design complete with functionality.

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Chris Johnson, Senior Front End Developer

A self taught man, Chris prides himself on clean code, keeping styling to the css file, and fast, deliverable websites. In an interview, Chris Johnson said, “Cut-up is an old term associated with ‘slicing’ a website with photoshop. Technically I converted a design. I now find myself coding using SASS and JADE to cut up my websites locally, as it provides me speed and many options such as custom and predefined mixins. ”

Both SASS and JADE are pre-processors that enhance the speed up time for his ‘cut-ups.’ And with the addition of his responsive design, this proves to be invaluable.

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When asked about some of his favorite works, Chris pointed to a few such as, Lewis Farms,Debordieu RentalsCy’s World and Holden Brother’s Farm Market. He chose those because of certain techniques he used that he is particularly fond of.

Another facet that Mr. Johnson mentioned was bootstrap. This program helps speed up development as well as allows complete customization. This sleek, intuitive, and powerful front -end framework is just what developers should have in their artillery. In fact, Lewis Farms, is made using bootstrap.

So let us all give a big social kudos to our very own Chris Johnson. Great work Chris and keep em coming!

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Lewis Farms – Freshly Picked Web Design

InterCoastal Net Designs recently paired with the family operated, Lewis Nursery and Farms to develop a website full of history and mouth-watering produce! Lewis Farms is headquartered in Rocky Point, NC but is also well-known for their you-pick strawberry farm on Gordon Road in Wilmington, NC. The new site is top-of-the-line and includes everything from wholesale and product information to a blog that will soon feature weekly recipes. Lewis Farms has been around for over 60 years, and they also run a blueberry marketing firm, American Blueberries. American Blueberries currently markets over 8,000,000 plus pounds of blueberries annually!

Lewis Farms specializes in producing blueberries, blackberries and green pepper, but this North Carolina farm is also famous for their homemade ice cream, honey and jams that can be found at their Lewis Farm Markets.

ICND is excited to launch this website right as Lewis Farms will begin their spring/summer season with the open of farm markets this Friday! This completely new design is customized to the needs of the customer and demonstrates the wide range of work that the ICND team has accomplished. We encourage you to visit the site and check out their farm markets next time you’re in the Wilmington, NC area.

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Responsive Vacation Rental Booking Engine

ICND is proud to be weeks away from releasing the very first responsive vacation rental booking engine. We’re not 100% sure, but we’re thinking this may be a first for the industry! The news from Google earlier this year that responsive sites were the way to go, put our rear in gear to comply with the search giant’s requests.

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Being responsive allows for the site to re-size itself automatically from desktop, to tablet, to mobile versions based on, actually, 5 different scenarios of CSS code written. Responsive design increases the usability of your site. You can hide certain information on mobile devices, and make buttons a different orientation to make easier to click on mobile devices.

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Without jeopardizing design, responsive CSS/HTML allows your site to be one in the same. No more updating your mobile site and your desktop version. No more desktop version of your site on a mobile device. If you are thinking of freshening up your site design and development, then take in consideration responsive design! Contact us today about responsive web design.

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BeachVacationChoices.com – An Escapia Channel Partner Site Launch

Team ICND is proud to announce the recent launch of Beach Vacation Choices – www.BeachVacationChoices.com.  This is a Escapia Channel Partner vacation rental website that ICND completed the design and development for.  Like integrating with an individual vacation rental company Escapia API,  the hard working programmers like lead programmer, Jonathan Richey, integrated the booking engine for Beach Vacation Choices with the Escapia Channel Partner network API.  This allows the site to feature many different vacation rental companies units in an abundance of beach vacation destinations.

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BeachVacationChoices.com provides an extensive list of vacation rentals at America’s favorite beach vacation destinations. All rentals are professionally managed properties from top ranked property managers.

BeachVacationChoicesSRICND was proud to be the select web design and development for the BeachVacationChoices.com Channel Partner API integration project.  We built the site to connect the beach vacation seeker to an exhaustive list of beach vacation properties for rent within one website. No need to jump from website to website or search for property manager listings one by one.  Bookings and any inquires are sent directly to property managers to ensure reservations are completed quickly, securely and provide real-time rates and availability.

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Coastal Directories – All You Need To Know About the Coast!

Coastal Directories is a professional business centered around the vacationer’s experience. Coastal Directories advertises and promotes local businesses through a full color, bonded directory book. The directory books have been printed for over 17 years, but now the information can be found on the eye-catching website, and easy-to-use mobile site as well!

Coastal Directories covers all travel necessities for the Brunswick County and Myrtle Beach areas. Need a place to stay? Need a family-friendly restaurant? Rainy day activities at the beach? Coastal Directories is a great, one-stop location for all things vacation! We encourage you to get planning today and utilize this great tool. If you’re looking for a print copy, they can be found in the majority of vacation rentals in all of the destinations included on this website. In fact, over 15,000 directories are printed!

Also, InterCoastal Net Designs would like to showcase the functionality on each detail page that displays the Google map of each location and allows users to click by the destination they want to peruse. But let’s be honest, you’re on the go when you’re on vacation and the mobile site helps you plan your next move while you’re sitting on the beach!

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