Howies Bar (Howies Live) Website
Howie’s Bar / Howie’s Live
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My brother recently purchased Howie’s Bar / Howie’s Live in La Crosse, WI, and he needed a new website for his new venture. Howie’s is a bar and live entertainment venue that serves people from 21 to 101. It has been a fixture in La Crosse for many decades, and my brother’s goal is to modernize the facility to become a hub for live music and entertainment.
Here were his needs for his website:
- Be able to manage the site himself
- Event calendar / Upcoming shows
- Email address database
- Post daily specials
- Promote their banquet facility
- Get into the search engines
- Post photos of all the good times had at Howies
The solution:
- We implemented WordPress as a CMS to manage his website and help him rank well in the search engines
- We utilized Google Calendar and a WordPress plugin to make managing his events and specials a very simple process (including recurring events, like daily specials)
- We use FeedBurner to gather email addresses
- NextGen Gallery plugin to manage the image gallery
All in all the site turned out very well, and they get a lot of positive feedback from their patrons. I would expect some updates to the site very soon as the needs of the business are growing to meet the demand of their customers.
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