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Specialty Home Builders, Construction

Wise Owl Joinery Company

David Yasenchack Timber Framing & Design

Krusi.com

Timber Frame Tools

Specialty home builders such as timber framers and log home builders are able to prepare the structure locally and ship the prepared logs or timbers anywhere, even across the continent or over the ocean, where they are raised.

The internet is the perfect match for this kind of construction business. Retirement or dream homes are planned years in advance. My clients have found that their websites have enabled them to gather a following of potential customers online. Regular updates and lots of pictures and information are key.

A construction company's website should mean less time on the phone and more time in the shop or yard — or with the kids or in a canoe!

I've worked with Heartwood Log Homes and Arlington Frame Company since the late 1990s, and the websites now drive their businesses. Their sites have been redesigned and updated often over the years. Both companies are located in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.

Arlington Frame has spawned Timberframe Houseplans Ltd., now selling timber frame house plans online.

Cocks & Delaney are general contractors and master carpenters / cabinetmakers who build new homes, often in partnership with Arlington Frame Company, as well as on historic restoration and home renovation projects in the South Shore, Annapolis Valley and Halifax area. Their site is linked with Arlington's to help expand the internet presence of both companies.

David Yasenchack is an artisan timberframer in Ohio who works with trees to build unique and personal timber frames.

Wise Owl Joinery Co. is another artisan timberframer in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. He uses Arlington's design and drafting services.

Yes, you're right: timber framing has become a bit of a specialty here at holmpage.com.

Timber Frame Tools sells specialty timber framing tools, including Serra portable sawmills and, from a separate website I designed for them, Krusi CNC wood milling machines to companies such as the above. While I didn't design the original Timbertools site, over the past couple of years I have been making extensive updates and improvements, making it more attractive, search-engine friendly and accessible to users, in addition to adding new products.

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