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Doobons Launches as the First Truly Professional and Patient-Oriented Medical Marijuana Resource!

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Screenshot of the Doobons.com website

WebSight Design is very proud to be a part of the Doobons.com launch. WSD was involved with extensive development and design, as well as search engine optimization. The Doobons site is clean and organized, creating a highly user-friendly interface.

Doobons is a legal medical marijuana dispensary search engine dedicated to providing medical marijuana advice, promotions, and other resources to anybody who might benefit from the use of medical marijuana.

Doobons traces its beginnings to an unsuspecting family member whose father was diagnosed with cancer. When traditional treatments were unable to effectively manage the patient’s pain and chemotherapy was causing a debilitating inability to eat, Doobons’ founder began to search for alternative medicines.

Unaware of how to navigate the world of legal medical marijuana, the Doobons founders quickly realized that no user-friendly and moreover no patient-friendly resources existed to serve those in need of this alternative medicine.

When he saw the great response the patient had, he knew that something had to be done to help patients and their caregivers. Doobons was born.

The site features interactive maps of medical marijuana dispensaries, doctors, lawyers, or other cannabis related businesses. Additionally, location based deals and discounts allow patients to access the very best price for their medication.

Doobons also provides comprehensive resources, such as information on how to get your medical marijuana doctor’s recommendation or cannabis card, which strains or forms of intake are best for particular illnesses or ailments, as well as current up-to-date news.

Doobons is committed connecting medical marijuana patients with the legal help and rights information that they need.

The Doobons team is highly committed to the cure and treatment of ailments which can be treated by alternative medicines. They have begun donating and giving back to the foundations such as The American Cancer Society.

Doobons business members can create profiles including video and photo galleries, company information, reviews section, and product menu option. They also have  the opportunity to create and post banner and geo-targeted ads on the Doobons site, as well as send out email notifications to Doobons patient members.

Doobons.com had its official public launch over the past weekend, November 11 to 13, at the HempCon medical marijuana show in San Jose, and the owners are gearing up to have the Southern California release this coming weekend, November 18 to 20, at the KushExpo in Orange County. Don’t miss your chance to meet the great founders of Doobons.com!


With 16 years of experience in the web site design and development industry, WebSight Design offers a wide variety of business to business services, including website design, web site programming, web site hosting, web site marketing, and reputation management.

WebSight Design in Development

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The beauty of WebSight Design lies in our full range of web services.  From design to development, SEO, hosting, and IT support, we have an excellent 15-year track record of providing our clients with the best possible products and services.

Over the years, we have built our own PHP development environment, based on the open-source Zend framework. We have a strong belief in the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, and strict version control with Subversion (SVN), because the results are cleaner, more efficient code. Utilizing the Zend framework also gives us access to the large and expanding library for Rapid Application Development (RAD), while still having the flexibility to customize the framework and make it our own.

Using the MVC design pattern allows us to have a clear separation of business logic and presentation logic.  This presents a distinct advantage when building web applications because it separates what the user sees from what goes on in the background.  This moves away from mixing data-layer code, such as database queries, in with your display code and allows us to create reusable modules, such as photo galleries and shopping carts, for significantly faster builds in large applications.

The MVC architecture also offers ease of maintenance, since each component (model, view and controller) is self contained, performing upgrades and changes, such as switching databases from Access to MySQL, become much less painful and cumbersome then in the past.

We make it a priority to stay on the frontline of the ever changing technology in the Web and Internet industry; currently, we are working on a 2.0 version of our framework that will use portions of Domain Driven Design (DDD) to create clean structure and more efficient code patterns.  One of the biggest changes on the way is a central code base with customizable modules.  With this 2.0 framework we will be able to increase our build time on large projects, and push upgrades to a central code base rather then individual applications.

But don’t think that since we developed our own PHP framework we are averse to working with other languages.  Just send your application our way and we are happy to roll up our sleeves, jump into your Ruby/Flash/ASP project and get our hands dirty.

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Founded in 1995, WebSight Design offers business clients a range of website design and development services, including website programming, website hosting, website marketing, and colocation management.

Ignite Advisors takes great ideas and puts them into action

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

WebSight Design is happy to announce the brand new launch of IgniteAdvisors.net.   This site includes the administrator driven modules for news, text management, and team bio management.  We have also added a innovative new module that allows for the upload and resizing of logos to the Ignite Network.

About Ignite Advisors, LLC

In 2008, Ignite Advisors founder Eric Del Balso, realized there was a niche for Ignite Advisors, Some of the best and brightest ideas are coming out of small companies in LA and the Silicon Valley, but many of them are still struggling to make significant headway in the commercial aspects of their business. Ignite Advisors marries the brightest minds from the engineering and products disciplines with some of the best deal- makers in the industry.

Ignite Advisors has assembled a highly seasoned advisory panel across all disciplines with both years of expertise and vast networks. This deep bench of talent brings a short, impactful burst during those critical early stages of fledgling digital media companies. Ignite Advisors’ strategic services help these companies make the alliances and partnerships that will help them realize their full potential quickly.

Visit PremierConcerts.com for concert tickets in Connecticut and Massachusetts

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Premierconcerts.com has just relaunched their site will a new design and new features from WebSight Design.

Premierconcerts.com for concerts in Connecticut and Massachusetts

The new design includes a rotating banner feature on the newly redesigned homepage.  This banner cycles through images that are uploaded from the administrator and highlight featured upcoming shows.  With this relaunch they have added a fabulous new photo gallery where you can browse through galleries of past show that they have represented. They have also added an archive feature to their site.  In the archive you can review all their past shows including information about headliners and supporting acts.

Premier Concerts produces and promotes concerts for amazing artists such as, Van Morisson, Alice Cooper, and Tony Bennett.   Premierconcerts.com is a one stop shop in where you can find all the information you will need about concert venues, show information and concert tickets in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Premier Concerts was formed in January 2004 by veteran entertainment executive producer Peter Kauff and investor and concert promoter Keith Mahler.  Through the restoration of the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT, they launched Premier Concerts to produce and promote concerts in Connecticut and Massachusetts.  Peter and Keith have been working in concert promotion and production for over 20 years and have represented some very popular artists including, George Carlin, REO Speedwagon, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and Jethro Tull.

WebSight Design SEO Success Story – Storage Seeker

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

WebSight Design understands how important search engine optimization (SEO) is to your site. Having bad SEO is like opening your shop in the middle of the desert, and forbidding people from having your phone number and address.  Not much business is going to happen that way!  But buyer beware, there are many different SEO scams out there, some of which could even get your site banned from Google.  When it comes to SEO, you want experts who have years of industry experience and understand best practices.

Recently one of our SEO experts, Alan Bleiweiss, published a case study for StorageSeeker.com on Search Engine Journal, one of the premier SEO blogs online.  In it he shares the methodology he used to get our client to the top of the first page of Google.  Alan and the SEO team at WebSight Design are masters at best-practice SEO techniques and achieving awesome organic search results.

Read the article: Sitemaps and Internal Links – 10000 Page Test

WebSight Design and 11345.com

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

WebSight Design is proud to announce that we have been selected by 11345.com to redesign and re-engineer their web site. We’re excited to give this project our all!

11345 is Not only do they carry hundreds of items pop, rawk n’ roll, cow-punk, alt-country, and garage items, as well as t-shirts, stickers, and zines from independent artists and labels,  11345 is also the exclusive mail-order provider for many webstores.

The 11345 record label represents artists such as Tucker, Sandycoates, Goodfellas, Cables, Nova Come Home, and Overlap.

We might post a sneak-preview of the interface later on, but rest assured that the new 11345.com will look cool and function with smooth efficiency.