Branding is about a lot more than just a logo. If you get it right, people will understand exactly what you have to offer. If you get it really right, people will know who you are -- and you will too.

Ponderosa Internet can help guide you through the process of understanding your business identity so you can communicate it to others. If you've already got it worked out, excellent! We can skip that step and move on to getting your brand out there. If not, we won't sell you a $30,000 picture of a cocktail olive (it makes for a pretty good story though).

Design is about reinforcing your brand and letting your customers know what you have to offer. Your web and print designs should complement each other, not leave folks wondering if a schizophrenic is running the place. Beyond that, web and print design each have different considerations imposed by their unique mediums.

Ponderosa Internet can use existing print design to create your web design, or we can create both print and web designs from scratch. We have a large collection of Oregon photography available to incorporate into your design where appropriate. Prices for basic web and print design can be quite reasonable, starting at $500 for a web design created from existing print materials. If you already have a designer you like, no problem. We don't have to do the design ourselves.

Chances are, your last "webmaster" had a penchant for Dungeons and Dragons and spent a lot of time in internet chat rooms. Although we know that guy, and might even hang out with him, we definately don't want to be that guy!

Instead of that, we build websites on top of a content management system. That means that you can make changes yourself using a modern, feature rich publishing system. Don't worry, it's not very technical at all. After all, we don't want you to turn into "that guy" either!

Despite it's ease of use, Ponderosa PIN^tm has a lot of power. Check out some of its features:

Full Featured Editor - Makes it easy to edit your web content, just like in Microsoft Word


Member's Area - Your users can sign up for email newsletters or log in to see member's only areas of your website

Marketing - Automatically submit your site to Google, and also send out newsletters to all of your registered members

Documents - Upload documents such as .pdf files, manage them, and make them available for display and download


Announcements - Create announcements to be displayed wherever on your site you would like

Calendar - A full featured events calendar lets you create one time events or recurring events and display them how you would like including a fully navigable monthly calendar. Members can also sign up for events


Banner Advertisements - Set up your own banners, or sign up for Google's adsense advertising to display targetted ads on your site for additional revenue

Store - Full store functionality including a full catalog setup, shopping cart, and checkout through Paypal

Blog - Maintain a blog to keep your customers aware of what is going on

Forums - Forum functionality including a variety of options for whether it is public or private, moderated or unmoderated


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Use a FAQ section on your website to answer your customer's most common questions

Map Integration - Integrated with Google Maps to present navigable maps on your site with multiple points of interest defined by you, or drawn from a custom table


Feedback - Accept feedback or questions via your website that automatically get sent to you

Weather - A real time weather feed will let your out of area customers know just how things are where you are

We host your website on an enterprise class server in a secure datacenter that has redundant connections to the internet as well as redundant electrical sources including backup generators. The licensing cost for Ponderosa PIN^tm is included in this hosting service. Prices for this kind of hosting can be a little higher -- $30-$150 a month depending on which publishing features you choose to use.

When you think about it though, that's probably a lot less than you were paying your old webmaster, and you're getting a lot more control over your own website. Besides, can you really put a price on not having to keep politely declining invitations to dress up like a medieval warrior and fight with toy swords in Drake Park?

A partial list of sites we've done, from simple to complex.

Ski Anthony Lakes

Oregon Justices of the Peace Association

Pacific Intermountain Mortgage

Bend Cyclery

Ski Bluewood

Joe Bruner Personal Trainer

Abundant Hope International