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ith over 30 vendors operating practically year-round, the Market’s culinary delights will make your mouth sweat. Personal faves: Thai Mama’s green onion and garlic wontons, Better Bean Company’s Cuban style black beans, and handmade pita bread by The Hummus Stop. The website is built on WordPress, allowing the volunteers to easily maintain content. No expert programming needed, just an appetite to help.

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f you’ve ever visited Bend’s Northwest Crossing neighborhood, chances are that you’ve seen one of Peterson’s masterful properties. The redesigned website is built on WordPress and features an incredible portfolio, rotating testimonials, contact form, and Constant Contact newsletter integration.

Plenty of awesome plugins were installed to maintain and improve search engine statistics on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The site is currently optimized to rank top 5 for “home design oregon”. And Muddy River Design is also hooked up with a social media frenzy.

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epave is all about inspiring and involving community and their old website wasn’t connecting users. They asked and I delivered. Depave’s new WordPress site is full of sledgehammin’ goodness: social media integration, a forum, calendar of events, internal ads, and two blogs. From parking lots to paradise, they will bring it.

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t’s all about supporting your local business. Recommended products: Biobags, Harvest Roast Gourmet Pumpkin Seeds, Rebinders, anything from Missionary Chocolates. Guess that’s a no-brainer, right?

Local Goods also adorns its walls with exhibitions from Portland artists. It’s always refreshing to walk into their store on NE Burnside and get slammed in the face by bursts of color. And the best part is knowing the artwork has some sustainable or environmentally conscious motive behind it. If you’re in the area, be sure to pay them a visit and tell them that Chuck sent ya.

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hat’s right, no sand needed and they fill up in a few minutes. Floodbloc is the ultimate recyclable sandbag for disaster situations. Its capability to be rolled flat greatly reduces transportation costs. “An emergency/first or rapid response flood mitigation product FbBag™ has been created to address the needs of first or rapid response situations. FbBag™ can be used in the home, in the food and agricultural industries, hospital arenas and construction sites.”