As mentioned in an earlier post we shied away from real estate projects following being burnt by a handful of clients who suffered complete business failure in 2010, but we're easing back into it with a few projects including both design and Search Engine Optimizations Services.

Design wise we put together an updated site for the Cascada Condo's Condominium development in Costambar, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic using the Popular Content Management Software Joomla, and third party Real Estate component EZ-Realty  among other third party and custom elements. The focus of this project is to support traditional marketing methods to investors. The fact that the site ranks top 10 for terms like "Dominican Condos" and #1 for "Costambar Condos" is simply a happy by product of utilizing quality technologies in a knowledgeable manner with SEO in mind.

Well the title pretty much covers it! following a semi-shutdown during the summer of 2010 and scaling back of staff, streamlining of services offered and restructuring of our client roster the late 2010 and early 2011 year has been full of action and excitement.

As a result of the economic slowdown the fall of the housing markets in the US and the significant softening of the Canadian housing market we had a higher than average percentage of customers default on their accounts as they went out of business in real estate.

Natural disasters always cause us to reflect on mortality and the frailty of life - despite how big and powerful we might feel as a person compared to mother earth we're nothing.

The latest news of massive flash flooding in Portugal had me once again reflecting, the second report mentioned it was on a Portuguese island, though they didn't name the island but that got me concerned, and finally last night watching the CBC news I caught that it was in fact on the Island of Madeira, home of one of our longest running clients Tony De'Nobrega.