Getting the right gift for a friend or family member is never an easy task and this is why we are happy to announce the newly opened Internet store, for unique gift-giving.

"Your Happy Place" is a new online gift shop that offers custom made gifts. They have over a 100 exceptional designs that you choose from at this shop when you are looking for printable products and gifts. All the designs that they offer are original therefore you can be sure the gift you buy is unique. “We come up with all the designs or use talented artists to come up with something spectacular”, said the shop’s management.

The gifts created by you are of the highest quality thanks to the experience of this shop's owner, Colleen Macintosh.  This is confirmed by over 20 years experience in the graphic arts industry and that experience has translated into quite a reputation for this provider of unique gifts. Now, thanks due the creative ambitions of Colleen and the web development expertise of Manwaring Web Solutions, this designer boutique is now making it possible for gift buyers around the globe to purchase their own customized gifts for giving as the shop begins its venture into new global markets.

When you are looking for custom gifts, it should be easy for you to get something for every occasion and each specific individual. Happy Place understands this and this is why they have various categories that you can choose from. Some of the categories that you can pick gifts from include Mugs, Things for Her, Kitchen Stuff, Things for Her, Heirloom Ring Pillows and photo Products. The variety available makes it much easier to choose a gift.

Order a unique gift from "Your Happy Place", the online shop allows you to choose both the products and design that you want. You can now include a custom phrase in the gift you give with a product from Happy Place.

ColleenMacintosh.com E-Commerce Site Launch

Manwaring Web Solutions rolls out new e-commerce site designed for Colleen Macintosh. This web design and development project is a boutique gift shop for a graphic arts vendor who translates artistic design into uniquely customized gifting solutions. You are cordially invited to visit "Your Happy Place" on the internet to translate your own idea into reality for giving and bestowing upon another.

At Manwaring Web Solutions, we are always interested in hearing from clients with comments and input after being commissioned to translate an idea the client has conceptualized. As a provider of web design and web development solutions in the Idaho Falls area, we also have clients and partnerships with clients around the globe, along with our local area client list. Based on this experience, we have gained insight and knowledge in all areas of Internet and e-commerce development strategies. Still, we are always happy to receive enthusiastic comments that confirm our own suspicions that we delivered beyond even the client's own expectations.

Below is what Colleen had to say about her web design and development project once we translated her idea into a reality.

Visit this e-commerce web site developed by manwaringweb.com at www.colleenmacintosh.com

Are you looking for a home in Idaho Falls? Come check out the newest feature on HomeSoon.com. Use this Idaho Falls map to easily find home listings in neighborhoods or schools you are interested in.  Let us know what you think!

We have just launched a new website, www.homesoon.com, a search site for finding real estate and homes in Idaho Falls and the surrounding area. The basics are already up but we have grand plans for improving the site to make it even easier to find homes than ever before. The site really only has one purpose: make home searching easy.  Do you want your kids to attend the best schools possible? We have included short cuts that enable you to quickly find homes based on school boundaries and neighborhoods.  We have also included short cuts for widely used search phrases such as "price reduced".

While we believe this site is already the most user friendly home search site in the region we have plans to add even more great features in the near future such as map based searches and results.

We were really excited when the Boys Scouts of America Grand Teton Council chose us to help them build their online store. They wished to setup an E-Commerce site that could be used by members of their council to signup and pay for scout camp, Cedar Badge, High Adventures and other camping and training events.  We built their store using our own E-Commerce engine and made several customizations they needed, such as providing an option for visitors to use their in house accounts - vs. a credit card - to pay for their registrations, and custom fields to collect the details they needed to process camp registrations.  We designed the store to look consistent with the rest of their existing web site.

Our Project Contributions:

• Web site graphic design
• Web site front-end coding (HTML/CSS)
  
• E-Commerce engine, installation & customization

We have recently completed a project working BuyMT.com, seller of Made in Montana Gifts & Souvenirs, to upgrade their web site. We did a complete redesign and rebuilt their store using our own e-commerce application.  Because BuyMT.com has been online for years and has done SEO work in the past it was very important to maintain their current search engine ranking. As part of the transition we setup 301 redirects from all of their old URLs to point to the relevant page on the new site. Not only did their rankings not fall, but coupled with the SEO improvements built in to our e-commerce application, their search engine rankings almost immediately improved.

Our Project Contributions:

• Web site graphic design
• Web site front-end coding (HTML/CSS)
  
• E-Commerce engine, installation & customization
• SEO friendly 301 redirects
• Migration of products, categories and customer information from previous shop

What does the client think?

"I've used Manwaring Web Solutions exclusively for every facet of my web presence - from the design to search engine optimization. I've been impressed with the high quality work that is always done quickly, professionally, and economically.  Jarom and his staff always go above and beyond my expectations.  Interest in my site, and sales of my Montana-made products are up!" 

- Mandi Heinle, Owner - BuyMT.com

Since moving our base of operations to Idaho Falls nearly four years ago we have developed a great working relationship with QWK.net - the best (in our estimation) ISP in the area. In fact, most of our servers are located in the QWK.net data center. When QWK.net decided last year to re-design their website we were thrilled they selected us to work with.  We worked closely with the QWK.net staff to understand their objectives for the redesign and were able to deliver a complete graphic design concept for the new website and updated logo which were approved with no revisions! After getting design approval we were also responsible for converting the design to clean, SEO friendly and standard compliant HTML/CSS code and integrate the content provided by the client's team.

 Our Project Contributions:

• web site graphic design
• web site front-end code
• logo revision
• integrate content

We have just completed a total redesign of dadstrucksales.com for DADs Truck & Trailer Sales, part of Doug Andrus Distributing based out of Idaho Falls. The redesign included a new graphic design as well as a custom coded back-end to manage their truck and trailer inventory online.  With their new website they are now enoying an improved online presence and improved ease of administration. 

We are happy to announce the launch of a new website for Heidi's Fudge  - www.heidisfudge.com. Heidi's Fudge has been sold for years at the Playmill Theater in West Yellowstone, MT and has recently opened a retail store in Rigby, ID. We were thrilled to work with Heidi's Fudge to revamp their web presence to make it more search engine friendly and easier to manage & update; all in anticipation of helping them improve their on-line marketing strategy.

The new Heidi's Fudge web site is built off our own custom ecommerce shopping cart engine and includes several customizations specific for Heidi's Fudge such as modules to control their Fudge of the Month and Wholesale programs.

We were approached by Mike Andrus, founder of Andrus Business Advisors in Idaho Falls, to create a logo for his new company. The logo needed to reflect the professional and conservative nature of his business - they provide business valuation and outsourced CFO (Chief Financial Officer) services.

We ended up creating two logo options. One that is appropriate for use at the top of letterhead and another more traditional layout that will work nicely on business cards, shirts, envelopes, etc.

Andrus Business Advisors does not currently have a web site (we hope to help remedy that soon), but you can view their other contact information below.