Fire Ground Review was founded in 2009 by Mark Lawry, a professional firefighter/paramedic for the West Bloomfield Fire Department. The company provides professional assessments called “Fire Ground Reviews” modeled after the U.S. Army’s After Action Reviews. The Fire Ground Review process helps fire departments examine their performance standards in order to sustain strengths and improve on weaknesses. Utilizing the process saves lives, money, and time.

The site we developed was our standard five-page package, which includes domain name and hosting for one year, plus a blog and contact form. We customize sites to our clients’ needs, and this site also includes examples of actual fire ground reviews in pdf format. We’d like to thank Mark for choosing us to develop his corporate identity: website, logo, and business cards. We had a great time working with him! Now we just have to teach him the art of blogging.

Purchase a complete web package for your company, including domain name, hosting, and blog, for under $400. Contact Rick or Katherine at Palmerworks Design, today. We offer professional design with personalized service.

As online training becomes more popular, knowing how to develop a website that incorporates a learning management system is an important skill for any web design company. Palmerworks Design recently designed a new online learning site for medical professionals: www.americancme.com.

Owned by Jeff Latkowski, an Oakland County emergency medical professional, American CME offers a convenient, quick, and economical solution to help emergency medical responders and other health care professionals meet state of Michigan training requirements. The user logs on, views an instructional video, and completes a short test that assesses comprehension of the video. Upon successfully completing the assessment, the user receives a printable completion certificate to provide to an employer and/or the State of Michigan.

(As of March 2011, American CME has moved to “moodlerooms” as their new hosting provider. The original design is by Palmerworks, but writing and information is not by our company.)

If you’re a trainer who’d like to start offering online courses, contact us for more information. We’ll design your site, set up the learning management and payment system, and help you get your training on the web.

About 10 years ago, Rick and I discovered that we enjoyed designing websites. In fact, we liked it so much that we began creating free sites for friends, family, and organizations: the Garden City Educational Secretaries Union, the St. Thomas Cemetery in Ontario, JMP Enterprises, and my own ancestry site, to name a few.

In 2002, we decided we’d try our hand at professional web design and formed Palmerworks. We began selling our services to small businesses in our then-current home town of Edgewater, Maryland: a local mechanic, a guitar shop, a realtor, a landscaper, and a karaoke/DJ service.

After relocating to the Detroit area, we began to branch out and started offering hosting services. In 2008, we partnered with photographer Lindsey Price and IT expert Brandon Billings to form Ambiquity Design, and added photography and IT services, as well.

Last year, Lindsey started her own company: Lovella Photography. Brandon assists her with clients, but will continue to provide contract services when we need his technical prowess for things like elearning system setup and backend server maintenance. However, the Palmers are now sole owners of the web design company, formerly known as Ambiquity Design.

As of June 1, 2010, we are reverting back to our old name: Palmerworks Design.

Our name has changed, but our services remain the same. Palmerworks will continue to provide web design and hosting services, plus design logos, business cards and other print media for small businesses. We’ve also added another new product: learning management systems.

The Palmerworks Design team will continue to offer affordable professional services. Palmerworks will work closely with each client when designing and writing new website content, and utilize a variety of marketing strategies to help establishing a viable internet identity.

Please be sure to check out some of our clients:

accesschristiancounseling.com

ostlundplumbing.com

marshawestfall.com

everlastasphalt.com

trotterstrategies.com

911setmedics.com

twtchurch.com

singbecauseyoucare.com

gracewayhope.com

The Palmerworks creative team can design your logo, business cards, brochures, letterhead, newsletters, and more.

With over 20 years of experience in the communications field, we are veterans at layout and design for projects that include newsletters, small magazines, brochures, flyers, posters, and marketing emails. We can help you create your business identity with a distinctive logo and integrate it into your website, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, and brochures.

As a team of award-winning writers, we also offer writing and editing services for individuals and small businesses. Let us create your resume, revamp your marketing materials, or proofread and edit your business letters, newsletters, press releases, or adcopy.

Contact us for more information about our design, writing, and identity branding services.

We also specialize in digital and print business products, including logo design, brochures, newsletters, and resumes and other branding and marketing materials.

They wanted a purple logo and banner, and we aim to please. The Ostlund Plumbing company, located in Westland, Michigan, provides commercial and industrial “design/build” plumbing services. Rick now knows a lot about design/build services, because Palmerworks Design includes content writing in our 5-page web package ($425). Just give us a little information about what your company offers, and we’ll take it from there.

On a personal note, we also know more than we used to about, asphalt providers, lobbyists, set medics, Christian ministries, cemeteries, vintage dolls…

Even after we’ve completed a website for a client, there’s always more to do. The company’s new logo is incorporated throughout the website, but there’s still a need for business cards, letterhead, and envelopes that brandish the new company look.

Here’s a sample of Everlast Asphalt’s new look on their company stationery and business cards. Contact us to ask about our print design services. Packages start at $325 (250 business cards, sheets of letterhead, and envelopes).

We’ve just finished a site for another new client: The Everlast Asphalt Corporation, owned and operated by Randy Bearden, provides residential and commercial asphalt services for the southeastern Michigan area.

The site creation process started out well when we were able to get everlastasphalt.com for their domain name. Finding the perfect name is a bit tricky nowadays, since so many good names have already been purchased by other companies.

Rick mapped out a site that has a clean, friendly design, highlighting the professionalism and workmanship that Randy Bearden’s company has provided for more than 20 years.

We always learn a lot about each client’s trade when we create a site. Rick researched and wrote quite a bit about the asphalt industry. When Randy told him that asphalt is recyclable, he incorporated a name plate that featured the green we all associate with environmentally friendly products and services.

Ambiquity Design’s goal is to provide highly personalized service for each of our clients. We tailor-made this site to include before and after pictures, all of their services, and a contact form for potential clients. Being MDOT certified and successfully staying in business for more than 20 years are both credentials that can reassure a potential client, so we added that information to the footer on every page. We also incorporated keywords that will attract visitors searching for an asphalt company throughout the site and in the html code, another important aspect of attracting potential clients.

We know most clients are excited to see how many hits their new sites receive, so we install Google Analytics on every site we build.

Thanks to Michele and Randy for choosing Ambiquity for their brand new company website.

Branding is an important part of every company’s marketing strategy. Rick designed a logo that we used in the Trotter Strategies website banner, then incorporated the new logo into Trotter’s business card design.

Keeping a consistent look on every element of your business’s communication outreach provides a professional easy-to-recognize company image.

The logo can also translate to company letterhead, envelopes, newsletters, brochures, and any other business communications. Best of all, this is a simple logo, with the white on red being immediately recognizable. You can also cast this in a two-toned version and it doesn’t lose any of its identity. Simple design is often the best. (Think Nike swoosh.)

Contact Palmerworks Design for affordable websites and business communications: www.palmerworks.com.

We just completed a one-page “business card” site for a new client:

Trotter Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based firm headed by veteran lobbyist Tom Trotter, provides Congressional consulting, strategic advice, and issue advocacy. Whether it’s promoting a particular issue or trying to stop harmful legislation, Trotter’s years of experience and established relationships will help you navigate the process and achieve your legislative goals.

Our business card site package include hosting for one year. We offer customized extras that you can add to your site. In this case, we’ve linked to Trotter’s resume. We also designed his company logo and business cards.

I just had to create this for our company…