Organic Fest Asheville NC 2009

We attended the 8th annual OrganicFest event this year and what a great time we had. Many great products, services and organic ideas represented here. There were thousands of people in the streets downtown Asheville. The
All-day festival was relaxed celebration of everything organic.

*FROM 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M., ON SUN., SEPT. 13, 2009, 'THE REGION'S LARGEST ORGANIC situated near the historic Grove Arcade. The all-day street festival on Battery Park Ave. and Otis St. attracted approximately 8,000 attendees, estimated festival organizers.

I managed to capture one shot of a street with vendor tents. There were 2 streets full of tents and people. This is what Organic Fest looks like from the end of the street.

Kim Cantor, Kim Iamurri, Asheville Massage Therapy

Kim Cantor now known as Kim Iamurri gets her site designed by the Brandon Tran Design Studio. Her site came out wonderful I think. Kim agrees...

Let's go into a little bit about Kim. Kim is a massage therapist in Asheville NC and can easily take the title of Asheville's Best Massage Therapist. Kim attended The Whole You School of Massage in Rutherfordton, NC and opened her massage therapy practice in 2003. The doors flew wide open and today she has a very impressive clientele with a completely booked schedule to match. Asheville Massage Therapy

If you are looking for a great massage directed and given by someone who knows how to fine tune relaxation, call Kim Cantor Iamurri at My Pure Therapy and schedule an appointment. Your body will be thanking your body that you did.

Global Air Rescue - Air Ambulance Service

Since 1986 the team of professionals at Global Air Rescue have personally handled over 7,000 missions in over 150 countries on six continents. Global Air Rescue is one of the leading international medical transportation specialists. The aircraft used for air ambulance transfers are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or governed by the foreign equivalent certification and equipped with state-of-the-art advanced cardiac life support systems. The medical staff includes registered nurses who are ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) certified and have extensive training in critical care, aviation theory, and medicine. Global Air Rescue can supply highly qualified trauma care and cardiac care physicians, paramedics, respiratory therapists, and pediatric and neonatal nurses ready to fly anywhere on a moment's notice. Take the guesswork out of emergency air travel and call Global Air Rescue today. Because wherever you are, help will always come to you.

Global Air Rescue really cares about his clients. They take great pride in customer service they provide to those who need to be transported safely, fast, and without all the headaches you may encounter in a commercial flight. If you care about your loved ones, an Air Ambulance service such as Global Air Rescue is a valuable service.

Holistic Health Care Reform

Health care reform lead by Dr. Oz explaining how individual health counselors can shape and change health care standards in the U.S.





Holistic Health Counselors trained through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition are available across the United States.

One holistic health counselor, Wendy Tran, is based in Asheville North Carolina helping people change their lifestyles through educating them and coaching them to change their habits.

Wendy Tran provides holistic health counseling services over the phone, video conferencing, or in her office.

Sherry Rambin Asheville Photographer

Sherry Rambin is a professional photographer based in Asheville, NC. I designed Sherry's site to highlight her extensive photography portfolio complete with an integrated blog. The front page is a flash slide show showing off some of her best photography pictures. Once you visit her portfolio, the photography is displayed in a Word Press blog format for easy managing. Those who view the site are raving about the awesome photography work by Sherry. She is truly a talented Photographer.


Asheville Photographer - Sherry Rambin

I'm now on Twitter - Gaining Followers is Easy

Twitter is a powerful networking tool that has exploded in the mini-blogging world. It has huge potential to develop targeted traffic to your website or blog.
Follw Me On Twitter.

For the longest time I have looked a Twitter as another time waster and I felt that it was a pointless thing to type one line sentences on what you were up to. On April 11, 2009 I decided to just setup an account. I didn't think I would ever use it, but when you have a popular name like "Brandon Tran," you have to reserve accounts everywhere just in case you may want to use it some day. My name is ALWAYS taken. It's unbelievable. Sorry, back on subject... So I created an account, and I posted one tweet "Hating the world for making me get on twitter... I'm not joking..." I actually had some mixed feelings at the time about it but I figured if I did change my mind, it would be relatively funny if my perception changed. I didn't customize the account at all. Well, I let that account sit there for a month till I had time to come back around and take another gander. I decided to add a profile pic and actually take the time to make a nice, yet personal background. After doing these little changes I was shocked that within a 24 hour period I had 30 followers reading my little posts.

I have read article after article about the benefits and power behind the twitter networking machine. It really does work, people are visiting my BrandonTran.com website. Utilizing this tool can grow into something really beneficial. So if you haven't taken the time to create your twitter account, go do it now! Make sure you take the time and really design a custom background for it if you want to represent your personality effectively. I can't stress that enough. I ignore people who don't add a profile pic at least, and if I am ignoring, you bet other people are doing the same. Take the time and give it some love.

One of the areas I have mixed feelings about is clicking follow on everyone in hopes that the person will be curious and come to your profile. This fits along the ethical line of spam in my opinion. Quality figures such as Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, Shaq, just to name a few, don't do that. Sure they have their brand and are public figures, but realistically you can not follow 80,000 people. If 80,000 people post 4 tweets a day, that number would be huge.

Twitter is a learning experience for me right now so, jump on the train and let's go for a ride.

Follw Me On Twitter

Poems Only Get's A Fresh New Design

As the title says, yes I gave poems only a new design as well as a new community system. It allows people to post comments, rate poems, submit poems, and has a community forum. In short, yes it's a Word Press Blog with the Thesis theme. However by the time I get customizing and editing a blog, you might as well call it a Brandon Tran theme because it really has minimal comparison to the original Thesis theme. That theme software wasn't cheap by any means, however it comes with a few perks. I can use that theme on any of my websites, and for clients, there is an additional $40 license fee. So far I am very pleased with the new site and its functionality. Here comes a little shameless promotion: If you have ever written a poem you should head over to Poems Only and post it! Help contribute to the community :) I will love you for it. And who doesn't want a little bit of Brandon love? Nice you are moving already, Thanks!

Here is a screen shot. Ignore the ugly advertisement on the right.

Youtube Site Everything Upside Down

The other day I was watching some music videos on youtube and noticed that everything was upside down. I am not sure if it was a hack or one of the developers wanted to mess around with the youtube style sheet for kicks. Well I took a screen shot of it, and it only lasted for about 20 seconds and was back to normal. I am sure they enjoyed that practical joke. I sure got a kick out of it!

New Forums for Holistic Health Library

I have put a lot of time installing and customizing a Holistic Health Community Forum for HolisticHealthLibrary.com. It turned out great! Still a few kinks to work out, but for the most part it works and functions correctly.

The forum is actually a word press plugin from simplepressforum.com. It has about 1 million options, so configuring and customizing something like this is not an easy task by any means. And of course if something isn't perfect, I can't leave it along, I have to get in there and edit some of the code work so it is just the way I like it. None the less, it turned out well thanks to SimplePressForum.com

Asheville Real Estate - Sunset Realty

New site design:
Asheville Real Estate - Sunset Realty

Rachel L. Acker, owner of Sunset Realty has a new website so go check it out! This site has a basic design using a flash header to show some photos at the top. I feel it turned out pretty well. Also, the MLS page incorporates a real-time search to find homes in in the N.C. area.