The Smoky Mountain Wedding Association has slowly been growing and growing since it first began in 2010 with about 20 members.

Their original website was created on a shoe-string budget and designed basically as a listing of the members. Over time as the membership grew, the website stayed in the original format of about 8 pages.

With the now more frequent use of mobile devices for web surfing, the SMWA decided to revise the site a little to better suit both the visitor and the members. They also did not want to totally reinvent the site to make it look drastically different. Traffic to the site has been steadily increasing every month and a and new color scheme and look was not what the board wished to happen.

The main changes were developing a series of icons to represent each category of membership. Since mobile devices are now very much driven an navigated by icons, this approach also lends itself well to the use of the site on mobile devices without incurring the cost of building a separate mobile site.

The individual categories were also broken down further from the original 3 to now almost 20 different ones. This also allowed for the visitor to quickly narrow down their search for a certain type of vendor.

Since a word press blog was also added and the author had made it 1024 pixels wide, I remade the site to also be the same width so that the hard coded pages look very similar to the blog postings.

A few other enhancements were made to the photo galleries and actual member listings and in the end the resulting site after the first month had already show more referrals to the members individual web sites than from the previous design.

Fine Food & Wine Cruise is gearing up with two new cruises to a new destination... Tahiti.

Ever since the business began in 2010 with the idea of creating a full ship charter of Fine Food and Wine cruises, doctorsid has been creating all venues of advertising and visual media. Each cruise has it's own web site, trade show banner, brochure, promotional postcard, sales fliers, HTML Email, and more.

Also, each cruise has a Celebrity Guest Chef for which special media is produced for his restaurant and media events.

And of course there are assorted magazine ads, HTML Email, Trade Shows and other outlets where media is created for the entire company that include elements from all of their cruise offerings.

With each new winery that sponsors a cruise, a complete website is built to match or compliment the theme of the winery colors and overall appearance. with facts about the ship, the cabins, ports of call, the guest chef, on-line booking and even special price charts depending on if a promo code is entered. Along with tracking from ads and email blast to know where the bookings are coming from.

And naturally all of this ties in with the assorted types of printed media used to compliment the web site and drive prospective travelers to book an upcoming cruise.

Guide To The Smokies is an area publication filled with discounts and information about the Smoky Mountains, area attractions, shopping and dining.

In the upcoming issue, there will be what is being tabbed as "Souvenir" editions that feature one of the advertisers as the cover. Each month of its publication will feature a different advertiser on the cover.

On most of the covers, as in the Santa's Land one shown here, the photography is from the lens of doctorsid that may have been used in other media for that client. There are also many specialized photos taken, like the one on the Titanic cover.

Of course inside the publication, you are likely to find an assortment of ads also developed by doctorsid.

Cupid's Chapel of Love is one of Gatlinburg's most popular wedding venues. This website was well overdue for a serious make-over. The new site utilizes some cool features of HTML5 and css3, such as transparent table backgrounds and a custom typeface.

Along with integration of the chapel's FaceBook page, the new site sports a new color scheme that is a lot easier on the eyes. The photography section also gets a nice face lift of a auto running sideshow with the photos in decorative frames. An expanded "wedding packages" section includes all of the information for each of the packages. The old version forced the user to make another click and go to a new page to see the details of that package.

Even if you still use one of the dinosaur web browsers that doesn't support css3 and HTML5, you will still view the site in a very similar visual than if viewed on the newer browsers. And as with all the sites developed by doctorsid, it is fully compatible with iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and other smart phones. For devices that do not support Flash, the viewer will see a static alternate content image.

To complete the package, the new Cupid's Chapel of Love website is hosted on our Black Bear Web Hosting servers. With Google Analytics, Web Trends and weekly FaceBook reports, the SEO strategies can be tuned to maximize any targeted search result they may wish to achieve.

The Eight Gables Inn, Bed & Breakfast which is now under new ownership, also felt the need for a new more elegant looking website to compliment the Inn instead of taking away from it as the old site did.

After researching the websites of other bed & breakfasts' in the area, doctorsid designed this overall theme of gold and browns with grey accents. Along the top of each page is a small sliding photo show of the inn or the surrounding area. And to add to the feel of gold and softness, we used rounded corners in the text blocks and photo sliders.

doctorsid toured the Inn to capture the photographs so that we had images exactly as they were needed. And of course this also meant the owners would have a nice group of new images to use in their other media they produce for the inn.

Like most new web projects we develop, there is the plan for them to grow in the future. This base site was enough to coincide with the changeover of ownership. The flagship site of seven pages will see more pages added sometime in the near future.

Along with the sliding photo show, there is also integration with FaceBook and a built in Google Map for directions to the Inn. The Eight Gables Inn logo was redesigned and created in a format for easy use in creating embroidered apparel, screen printed items and just about anything you could dream of having a logo on.

Future development of the site include photographing all 19 rooms for display in the site and further development of the specials and weddings sections. We also have in mind to add in some details about the menu and other amenities of the Eight Gables Inn. since the reservation process is not a part of the Inn's website, but rather a third party service, the imagery and theme of the reservation pages do not mimic the main part of the website.