United Streetcar is a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works and the only manufacturer of streetcars in the USA. With the success of their prototype car in Downtown Portland, the city has green lit more cars for the expanding line that will service the east side of Portland. United Streetcar has also won a bid for several streetcars in Tucson that will feature heavy duty AC units to keep passengers cool as they ride which will be great for older citizens. Another reason I love the streetcars is that they open at ground level so bikes and wheelchairs can roll right in without delaying other passengers.

United Streetcar has been featured in many publications and was just today their Portland streetcar was featured on USA Today article title “Portland streetcar success has fueled interest elsewhere” United Streetcar is bringing back good paying jobs to the U.S. and growing the manufacturing sector which has been heavily damaged over the last several years as is commonly known.

I am glad I could help them. I am really happy with the final result. I hope the website serves them well and a big thanks to Joycelyn Chavez at United Streetcar for her efforts.

My newest project launch is CentralOregonRestoration.com, for repeat customer, Mountain Air Indoors, Inc. located in Bend, Oregon. Mountain Air Indoors specializes in mold remediation using a cutting edge organic and non-toxic product and now they have logically expanded their business to include water damage restoration. Logical because as many of you may know water damage, and moisture in general are common causes of mold growth.

The website was custom designed and built from scratch using PHP templates and utilizes JQuery for the nice slideshow on the homepage and contact form to avoid unnecessary spam. The website in optimized for search engines with custom page titles, meta data and use of h1 and other content mark up. The website has an XML sitemap for search engines and was submitted to several search engines upon launch. Keywords are not stuffed in but thoughtfully placed without diminishing user experience and readability.

Speaking for a minute more about Mountain Air Indoors I would like to say that I highly recommend using Mountain Air Indoors for any mold or water damage need. Andrew, the owner is hard working, honest and he has always done exactly what he says, not to mention he is really great at what he does and his mold remediation product is superb. It is no mystery why his business is a success.

For the past seven years, Lightfleet has been working on a technology that employs light signals to replace the cabling and switches typically used to connect various server nodes in a blade server. And as of December, it had delivered its first unit–to Microsoft’s Research’s labs.

Lightfleet’s first product is code-named Beacon, a 32-node server that uses dual-core Intel processors along with standard off-the-shelf disks, memory, and storage all in a package that stands about 16 inches tall on a server rack (9U in server speak)… [READ FULL ARTICLE ]