The Academy of Coastal Carolina opened in the fall of 2006 in Shallotte, North Carolina, with 27 students. The program has expanded to include a Program for 3 Year Olds, Transitional Kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds, as well as Traditional Kindergarten through 8th grade. All grades are taught history, science, mathematics and language arts. In addition, physical education, foreign language, Bible classes and strong art and music programs are offered.

The website contains an E-Newsletter signup area, a supply list where various supplies needed by the school are listed, and information on how you can support the academy in other ways. Links to various YouTube videos about the school are posted on the site where prospective students and their families can learn about The Academy of Coastal Carolina and how to register for the next semester classes.

ICND has recently completed a fully customizable real estate MLS plugin for financial institutions to display real estate properties currently on the market on their own banking website. Just as real estate agents and brokerages can benefit from displaying current property listings from their local Multiple Listing Service (MLS), banks and other financial institutions too can benefit by adding this interactive feature to their website.

One such institution which has just recently integrated this feature into their existing website design is Security Savings Bank in the coastal North Carolina region. They utilized this feature to display their bank-owned property listings on their website.

Not only does this feature add more usability to the banking website, it also helps to increase the banking website search engine optimization! Adding these listings adds a great deal more content to the website related to the types of properties that people are actively searching for. By finding your website listed more often in the search results, you will benefit from more traffic traffic to your website and more new customers in your bank!

If you own a banking website and wish to add this great MLS plugin to your website to display foreclosures or any other types of listings currently on the real estate market, contact InterCoastal Net Designs today!

InterCoastal Net Designs built a custom content management system (CMS) into the CNA Exam Training Center site to allow present and future students to register and pay for their classes online. In addition, the website has a calendar where students can keep track of upcoming classes and class time.

The CNA Exam Training Center proudly stands behind their training and those who have taken their courses. They give you all the support needed up to the last minute before your exam. If you would like to go over the 24 skills for the exam at any time you will not be turned away. They are the best exam training facility in the local area. To prove this, they offer everyone who pays and attends the program the following guarantee: If you fail the state exam and you attended class every day then you can come back to class for free. You will, however, be responsible for the state exam fees.

With the website redesign members of South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative are able to view and pay their electric bills online using the convenient E-Bill Payment Center. There’s also plenty of energy saving and electrical safety tips on the site as well as an area of recipes. The Member Services section allows you to open new accounts, manage existing ones, update information currently on file, and put in a Service Maintenance or Disconnect Request.

A Pre-Pay Electric program is now available to qualified members of South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative. The Cooperative will monitor a member’s consumption, generating a phone call or text message when the member is almost “out” of electricity. Pre-Pay Electric members can make payments by telephone through our automated phone system, online through our website, or in person at our Arkadelphia office.

The most beneficial aspect to the member, as well as the cooperative, is reduced consumption. Studies show that members who pre-pay for electric service use 10-12% less energy than those on traditional billing because they are more aware of how much power they are consuming. In turn, demand is reduced for the electric utility distribution system.

The new site built for Greybeard Rentals includes the integration of a Vacation Rental Booking Engine that streamlines their reservation process. There are plenty of new photos of their rentals added to the site and you’ll find the navigation to be more user friendly as well.

As one of our newest search engine optimization (SEO) clients, Greybeard Rentals will have regular and thorough optimization performed on their web site on a monthly basis by ICND, which in turn results in higher ranking among search results for relative keywords and phrases in their industry.

To celebrate the inauguration of their new website, Greybeard Rentals are offering the Christmas Lights Getaway Package, a chance to explore Asheville from now until Dec. 31st. while staying in one of their selected rental cabins. Included in the package is a 2-day daytime pass to the Biltmore Estate with an additional candlelight tour during the evening. They also will have a Christmas tree, decorated and lit, as well as Cadbury drinking chocolate awaiting your holiday arrival at your Asheville Christmas cabin. For more information on this and other packages, visit the guest services division of their website.

Jenny was born in the Colleton County town of Cottageville and moved to Columbia in 1995 to attend the University of South Carolina. She announced her campaign — Jenny Isgett For City Council — in late October.

The district encompasses Shandon, Wheeler Hill, the University of South Carolina and Five Points and other areas. But its boundaries are about to be enlarged because of redistricting prompted by the 2010 Census. The U.S. Justice Department has yet to give approval of changes in two of the city’s four single-member districts.

Jenny, a Shandon, SC resident who is seeking her first public office, is active in her city’s historic preservation and arts community as well as urban development issues. She holds a B.S. in criminal justice, a law degree from Campbell University and teaches real estate law at Midlands Technical College.

As a North Myrtle Beach Resort they have more Facebook “Likes” than all of their competing resorts. And the best part is, they are directly from sources of their feeder markets. ICND will continue to work feeder markets from quick drive markets and approach the North East to promote to in Spring 2012.

Beginning with management and marketing at Tilghman Resort, new strategies are launched daily to maintain high visibility of the resort both in the community, across the country and on the Internet. Combined with exceptional work from their partners within housekeeping, maintenance and front desk and they’ve achieved an exceedingly great combination of success, stirred by the hands that mold “The Tilghman Experience.”

It takes opportunity to truly define the experience. Understanding what it takes to exceed expectations, Tilghman Resort builds their reputation from excellence. They expertly utilize the means necessary to measure high-caliber and dedicated staff then position them to be instrumental in providing each and every guest with an outstanding experience.

Clients offering their customers access to mobile versions of their web sites are the market leaders of today. If your company doesn’t already have one, you should be talking to ICND about it. The facts tell us that there are twice as many mobile phones in the world as there are television sets, and four times as many mobile phones as there are computers.

Mobile sites are optimized for viewing on mobile devices, providing the major advantage of the domain having compatible content. The Grand Strand Resorts website has been optimized for the special capabilities and restrictions of mobile devices, such as smaller screens, device form/size, device input/output options, existence of embedded sensors (acceleration, location, touch, etc.), as well as human factors such as expectations of immediacy of results, context awareness under a shortened attention span (as opposed to the home use of the Internet).

We met with McDowell Realty to get a sense of their company, learn what target area they wanted to reach, and discuss their business goals, then we designed and built a new site from the ground up, integrating MLS 3.0 and all of its latest features. The featured area pages on their site utilizes relevant and SEO-friendly content that ensures excellent placement in search engine results. McDowell Realty is among the rising numbers of SEO clients with ICND which offers ongoing optimization and improvements to their website increasing the percentage of success with leading search engines.

McDowell Realty specializes in a variety of real estate, including residential, commercial, investment properties, as well as land and farms. They’re a small, locally owned and operated company with southern hospitality, a high standard of ethics and a strong belief in exceptional customer service. At McDowell Realty they put your needs first; they tell you they will help you find a home, not just a house.

Our own Emily Hardesty has also been hitting the hot pavements this summer in Charleston and Hilton Head. As a result of Emily’s hard work and talented vision we’re proud to announce the newest clients of ICND, HiltonHeadRentDirect and Ravenel Homes.

HiltonHeadRentDirect.com is a new search engine optimization (SEO) client of ICND. They are currently using Escapia on their site. Escapia helps leading vacation rental agencies manage and market vacation rental homes. ICND is focusing on optimizing their web site to increase their search engine rankings, thus making the site more easily accessible to potential clients.

Ravenel Homes is a Charleston home builder who is looking for a new design, MLS Integration and Search Engine Optimization. When Nicole Michaels was asked about working with the client she said, “I met with them this week and I’m excited to start the design phase. Also, they are looking for an interactive way to show their building and design processes on the site.” We think their new web site is going to be quite impressive.

If you are a current ICND customer located in Charleston or Hilton Head, you may be hearing from Nicole soon regarding your services, web site, and how you can improve your online marketing through the services we offer.