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.

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.

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.

CartaNova is happy to announce that two of our Search Engine Optimization clients are now receiving top rankings; Williamson Accounting in Toronto, and Alcast Technologies Aluminum Casting of Hamilton, ON.

Read on to find out how we accomplished this difficult goal.