We're changing our Google AD Words Pay-Per-Click Marketing pricing in October to better reflect our return on investment (ROI) philosophy in web marketing.

Email Marketing is now available from CartaNova!  We've designed CartaNova Newsletters to be an easy to use pay-as-you-go service.

Starting and running a small business is quite an intimidating project. Over the last five years we've grown from a one-person company (Holden Creative) into CartaNova.

Along the way we've read a small pile of business-advice books.
Here are top three books we recommend for small business or social initiatives.

It's always nice to get positive feedback from your professional peers.  That's why we were thrilled to see CartaNova's Design for Lunatic Adventures (near us in Hamilton, Ontario) shown as the first showcase image at Jooma! Canada.

Renewsing (motto: Reducing, Reusing, Recycling, ReNEWSing) is a project of Canvas Dreams, whom we work with to offer wind-power web hosting to our clients.  The site aggregates RSS news feeds from the many participating green companies who host their web sites on wind-power.

The site is a fantastic source for green news - covering everything from eco-social responsibility news to the green construction trade.  You can find us in the design & marketing category.

As I type this sentence there are thousands of web sites being launched.  Some of those sites may be from your competition. In the age of globalization, social media marketing and general information overload, how can a small business get noticed?

Our answer: By being REMARKable.

CartaNova is proud to announce the launch of a new eCommerce web site for Alpha Thermal Systems, located in Webster, Massachusetts.  ATS is a vendor of high-quality PAW Solar Heating Stations, Resol and Sorel Solar Controllers and solar heating service tools by Zuwa.

The new web site uses the amazingly robust Magento eCommerce Platform.

Here are a few of the tools that make Magento a great platform for technically-oriented products and the Renewable Energy industry in general.

We're happy to relate that one of our oldest clients, The Bike Train has announced pilot service to Muskoka area on their new Ontario North lines this August and September.  Be sure to check out this great Bike Train Video.

CartaNova Web Design hero Nikola Tesla had his 154th birthday celebrated on Saturday and Facebook group Team Tesla made this cute video in his honour.  In short, Edison was a complete jerk to both our favorite inventor and a most unfortunate circus elephant.