HealthCom Consulting believes that local people have to be the drivers of social, political and institutional change and our role is to facilitate and enable them to lead, innovate, learn, broker and mobilize support for change be it among policy circles or at the community level.

Northwest Greetings is a family owned and operated distributor of greeting cards and related products based in Victoria, BC.  In business for over twenty years, Northwest Greetings has built a reputation for personalized service and offering the absolute best greeting cards at competitive prices to customers up and down Vancouver Island and across Canada.

Smith Industries Ltd. is a family owned and operated business with thirty years of experience creating state-of-the-art hydrovacs that are designed to be user friendly and to take a bite out of any Canadian winter. With custom built hydrovacs, premium vacuum equipment and customized products for municipal, industrial and agricultural waste, the website was designed to showcase both their product line, as well as their extensive parts catalog via online ecommerce.

RM Wood Floor Specialties is a Victoria B.C. based business providing a valued service to wood floor professionals in greater Victoria and Vancouver Island. They offer rapid job site delivery of superior quality wood floor installation and finishing products.

Global Environmental Products, Inc. is one of the world's leading producers of specialized street sweepers. The company sells and services its products through a network of independent distributors in over 82 countries worldwide.

Amanda Hagel is a passionate singer songwriter, and has just released her debut album Rush. She is also a fitness trainer and part of A-Team Training.

Since its inception, Sundog Alpacas has focused on the selection and breeding of top quality alpacas. They maintain animals with fine and abundant fibre, and strong conformation. All are registered in Canada (Canadian Llama & Alpaca Association) and the United States (Alpaca Registry Inc.).

By 2015 more than half of all web traffic will come from mobile devices. If your website isn’t mobile ready, now’s the time to think about updating to a responsive framework.

As sales of mobile devices increase (overtaking desktop sales), so does the importance of mobile-friendly responsive websites. So what is a responsive site? Simply put, a website using a responsive design means it fits all devices. Of course, Wikipedia helps to provide a more in-depth explanation:

"Responsive web design is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling-across a wide range of devices."

Why is responsive design so important in 2014? Let's start with the percentages.

If done properly, your website can be one of the best marketing tools for your business. It's more than just a modern-day digital phone book ad (remember phone books?). Your site is an interactive online office or storefront that's open 24/7. Here are some basic DO's and DON'Ts that all websites should follow to ensure a great user experience: