Category: Web Design

Timing Your Move: When to Switch Your Vacation Rental Website or Marketing Provider

  Thinking about making a move from your current website provider or digital marketing agency? Timing is everything. Whether you’re starting fresh or switching systems, a little planning makes all the difference. Here’s how to time your transition so you launch smoothly, not stressfully. 1. Starting Fresh with a

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Suggested Searches & The Battle Against “Unserviceable Searches”

Here at ICND we’re all about driving more direct bookings for our clients through their websites. Our latest Direct Booking Engine websites (Axis) strive to do this better than anything we’ve developed before. They’re faster, feature rich, and customizable to fit our client’s needs.  Combine our awesom

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Axis Websites Built For Speed

  There’s no doubt that for a vacation rental management company, their website is an integral of their business. Similar to the vacation rental managers themselves, the VRM’s website must take on multiple key roles and excel at these in order to serve as a strong pillar for the company.  From representing t

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7 Steps to Refresh Your Old Website (and Rank Again!)

The internet has been around for nearly 30 years, and websites become faster and easier to use with each year that goes by. For some businesses, keeping their web presence fresh is part of their brand DNA. But for others, especially companies who have been around since before the dot com boom of the 90’s, their website isn’t as muc

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Why Do I Need A Website

As a business owner, you have to think of multiple aspects of how you are going to achieve your goals in your industry. You need a product or service that people need, a way to deliver that product or service, and marketing to get the word out. Whether you are a small bakery, a consignment shop, or even a coffee shop, proper unders

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ICND Featured As VRM Intel's Best Websites of 2015

Congratulations to Amy Hinote of VRM Intel for the first and second issue of VRM Intel Magazine. Many Vacation Rental Manager’s and Industry Suppliers follow her site religiously for industry news and information. ICND is honored to have had one of our websites – www.DeepCreekVacations.com featured on VRM Intel’s Best Websites of 2

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Responsive Design: Not Just A Trend

Trends are often indicators of a collective shift in thinking and evolve into more substantial change on a large scale. Although many trends foreshadow things to come, shortsighted businesses often dismiss them as not worth the investment in time and money needed to keep current. Over the last few years in the web industry, respo

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Website Not Mobile Friendly? Watch Out For Devastating Results.

Over the past few years, sales of smartphones have exploded. Everywhere I look, I see people glued to the screen of their iPhone, Galaxy, or Nexus device. We have passed the point where only teenagers and tech hipsters own iPhones, now there is a good chance your parents and grandparents own one as well. In a study published earlie

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ICND Partners with FLY ILM for a New Website

InterCoastal Net Designs (ICND) is excited to announce that we are in the development stage of a new custom designed, responsive website for the Wilmington International Airport. We had our kick off meeting at the airport in May of this year, and are hoping to have this project completed by early fall. Features of this new website

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Why Your Website MUST be Mobile Friendly

You’ve heard it before. The amount of people browsing the internet on a mobile device is growing every day.  According to a recent article in the Washington Post “Mobile Internet use will continue to surge over the next five years, at a rate of 66 percent each year.” According to this same article mobile traffic will outgrow l

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