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InWestmoreland is a web service developed by Jane and Scot Noel of Computers Made Easy, a computer training company established in Grapeville, PA in 1999. Its technology support is provided by Giraffe Digital Solutions. For more information about Computers Made Easy and its partner, GDSI, visit us at Computers Made Easy.

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InWestmoreland.com means inexpensive web pages for small business,
as well as an online directory of businesses, services, events
in Westmoreland County, PA

We created InWestmoreland.com to serve Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Who do we wish to serve? Well, ultimately, almost everyone.

If you are looking for information, you can find Westmoreland County businesses, services, and events at www.InWestmoreland.com. If you are looking for a quality web site at an affordable price, InWestmoreland.com offers standardized packages that even the smallest business can afford. For companies seeking full web site design and hosting services, InWestmoreland.com has the experience and creative talent to design the most professional internet presence.

Find Westmoreland County Information

InWestmoreland.com is a hub, a central location for information and web links to many Westmoreland County businesses, services, and events. In our first year, over 70,000 web pages of information were accessed on InWestmoreland.com. Here you can:

• Find Westmoreland County Towns and Township information, both official and unofficial sites.

• Find Westmoreland County Libraries, Business Associations, and Chambers of Commerce

• Find Westmoreland County Schools and Educational websites, as well as Historical sources

• Find Westmoreland County Travel & Tourism information

• Find Useful Links, from News and Magazine websites, to weather, reference, and links of global interest.

• Find Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation information, including information on many state and local parks in our area.

• Find Westmoreland County Arts & Heritage Festival information, as well as the best in county events

• Find Westmoreland County Agricultural information and links to great local farms

• Find Westmoreland County Scenic Railroad information

• Find Westmoreland County businesses, services, and events chosen as Great Places

• Find Westmoreland County Arts, Crafts, Hobbies & Toys

• Find Westmoreland County Collectibles & Antiques, as well as Gifts & Cards

• Find Westmoreland County Health Care and Professional Services

Well, you get the idea, and that is hardly the end of the list. As InWestmoreland.com continues to grow, you will find in us a useful gateway to the many kinds and sources of information you are seeking on your home county.

You may think of InWestmoreland as a site for tourist information, but that is not our mission. The Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau (www.laurelhighlands.org) does a fine job of promoting Westmoreland County throughout the region and to surrounding states. The purpose of InWestmoreland.com is to promote Westmoreland County, PA to the residents of Westmoreland County. Being a small, local company ourselves, we have a special interest in aiding local entrepreneurs, events, non-profits, and county agencies. Our goal is not to promote the mass merchandise stores. The local, personable, high quality shops you will often see listed in InWestmoreland.com are places you will remember visiting. People often miss the Great Places™ in their own back yards, and we hope to correct that.

Why not leave the job of promoting the county to the big phone and internet companies? Well, quite frankly, we can do a better job on many levels.

• The creators of InWestmoreland have decades of software development experience and backgrounds in teaching computers and software to home users and businesses alike. Through the eyes of our students, we have seen the confusion caused by busy and crowded websites, pop-up ads, pop-down lists, flashing banners, and the like.

• InWestmoreland.com is designed to be a useful tool, not a showcase for fancy internet techniques and annoying ads.

• InWestmoreland has an interest in bringing the benefits of websites to even the smallest business. Our basic packages range from $100 to $275 per year, all costs included (your InWestmoreland.com website is up and running and ready for everyone to visit).

• InWestmoreland promotes our website locally in a variety of ways throughout the year.

• Our experience in website optimization and search engine registration means your website will search well on major search engines such as Google, Alta Vista, Lycos, and more.

• We take the time to work with you personally and to address your problems and concerns. We will never try to oversell a business on services they do not need.

• InWestmoreland is committed to improving our website and what it can offer to the community, year in and year out.

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Using InWestmoreland.com

Home Page Directory

Visit www.InWestmoreland.com. Our website has been carefully designed to be simple and easy to use. Nevertheless, it is a rich source of information and useful links.

Scroll down the home page to see the major headings in a directory of businesses, services, and events. Click a category. The next page shows the subdivisions within that category. Business, service, and event names underlined in blue, like this, are links to web pages devoted specifically to the business or event of your choice. Click on a link to go there. Many of these links take you off the InWestmoreland website entirely and to the website of your choice.

Search Field

If you would rather use the InWestmoreland Search Field, type the object of your interest into the search bar near the top of the home page. You could type anything, such as “Restaurant,” “Computer Repair,” or even “Chocolate.” Then click on the gray Search button to start the search. If there is a website using those words associated with InWestmoreland.com, a list of links will appear. Click on the link of your choice to go there.

Navigational Buttons

On the left hand side of our Home Page, a column of buttons helps you access many of the useful areas on InWestmoreland.com.

• Home Page: returns you to the Home Page of InWestmoreland whenever you see it on another page

• New Listings: These are the latest businesses, services, and events that have joined InWestmoreland.com

• Local Info: An overview of Westmoreland County, PA, from History to Fun Facts

• Local Links: A listing of public service websites, from Government sites to Libraries, News, Museums, and more

• Useful Links: Weather, Maps, Reference, Search Engines, and more

• Great Places: Monthly articles on businesses, services, and events – the best in Westmoreland County, PA

• Coupons: Money saving coupons that you can print out, take to the appropriate business, and redeem for significant savings. Just hit the Print button, or click on File and then Print in your browser. There is nothing difficult about it

• Parks & Rec: Information and links to many State, County, and Local parks and recreation facilities throughout Westmoreland County, PA

• About The Site: Provides the information you are reading now

• Site News: Learn about the latest developments at InWestmoreland.com

• Get a Site: Provides information on how to acquire an InWestmoreland.com website, hot link, coupon, or other InWestmoreland.com service

• Contact Us: Provides a contact form for contacting InWestmoreland.com

From time to time you will find other links and buttons listed in the column below the main section, taking you other useful websites and pages of information.

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History

InWestmoreland is a web service developed by Jane and Scot Noel of Computers Made Easy, a computer training company established in Grapeville, PA in 1999. Its technology support is provided by Giraffe Digital Solutions. For more information about Computers Made Easy and its partner, GDSI, visit us at Computers Made Easy.

InWestmoreland.com was established in late 2002, and its first year of service was 2003.
The purpose of InWestmoreland is to create a quality web presence at an affordable price for businesses in Westmoreland County, and to make web advertising a reality for small businesses whose concern is greater exposure in the local marketplace.

InWestmoreland is a convenient, searchable web site where consumers can find information on where to buy local products and services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. InWestmoreland encourages the support of Westmoreland County businesses, offers valuable discount coupons, and provides useful links to other government, community, and service oriented web sites.

“The idea for InWestmoreland came about when my wife’s car died on the road,” explains Scot Noel, co-owner of Computers Made Easy. “I use the Internet for everything, and I wanted to find a towing service close to where the car broke down. It was nearly impossible, and what searchable sites I did find were cluttered, confusing, and difficult to use. By typing five words into my browser, I could find “the best soil for planting begonias” in seconds, but locating a local towing service seemed out of the question.”

“After a few conversations with my wife, during which we both became more and more enthusiastic about the idea, we decided to launch InWestmoreland. The rules were simple. It had to be useful, easy to search, and low in price. We wanted a clean, quality product devoid of annoying ads. The results are here for you to see. Although we’re in our infancy, we hope you find that InWestmoreland grows more useful day by day, as more Westmoreland County businesses join us.”
Accomplishments in 2003

In 2003, InWestmoreland.com achieved the following milestones:

• 70,000+ web pages of information viewed on InWestmoreland.com

• 120+ businesses, services, and events listed in our online directory

• Hosted Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation information

• Sponsor of Westmoreland County Arts & Heritage Festival

• Provided InWestmoreland web packages for Westmoreland Scenic Railroad, Westmoreland County Agricultural Land Preservation, and the Westmoreland County Blind Association

• Hosted Mrs. Pennsylvania, United States Pageant

• Introduced Great Places articles on the best of Westmoreland County

• Introduced Dynamic Page Editor to allow owner updates of websites

• Improved InWestmoreland Search Field results

• InWestmoreland Great Places articles picked up as a regular feature in Inspiring Times Magazine

• Developed overview of Westmoreland County, available at http://www.inwestmoreland.com/countyinfo/index.htm

• Listed by Google and DMOZ (the Open Directory Project) as one of the top 3 directories of services and information for Westmoreland County.

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Affiliations

InWestmoreland.com, a service of Computers Made Easy, is a proud member of:

• Norwin Chamber of Commerce

• Laurel Highlands Chamber of Commerce

• Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau

• And a proud sponsor of the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival

Joining InWestmoreland

It's easy to join InWestmoreland.  If you have a web site, it can be added to our listings to help local consumers find it.  If you don't have a web site, we will work with you to select a package to suit your needs.  Our packages range from as little as $100/year to $275/year. 

It's easy and you don't have to be a computer expert to get an InWestmoreland website.

• We interview you to learn about your business, write the text for your site, and send it to you for your approval. 

• We add photos from any digital pictures you have, or we scan photographs. 

• We put the site together and publish it. 

• Once again, you can review the site and suggest any changes. 

• We submit it to the major search engines and add it to our listings. 

• You tell your customers and prospective customers about your site.

We invoice you only after the site is completed.  We send you quarterly newsletters to inform you of updates and changes to the InWestmoreland site.

Learn more about the benefits and packages or pricing of InWestmoreland web pages.

Locally Advertised

InWestmoreland.com is advertised locally, to boost awareness of the InWestmoreland directory and increase the value of each listing.

InWestmoreland has been featured on the cover of Inspiring Times, a local bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of over 20,000.

Our advertising in 2003 included:

• InWestmoreland.com featured on the Front Cover of Inspiring Times in spring, with quarter page ads in summer and fall.

• Full Color ad in the Tribune Review’s Discover Westmoreland 2003.

• Included in March for Parks brochures and advertising.

• 30+ weeks of ads in the Murrysville Star.

• Great Places articles included in Inspiring Times magazine.

• Sponsorship ads at the 2003 Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival, including the festival newsletter and program books.

• Included in Westmoreland County Parks & Recreation’s Guidepost publications in the Tribune Review and 2003 Schedule of Events.

• Bus billboard advertising on WCTA buses in the Greensburg area, November 2003.

• In October 2003, InWestmoreland.com joined the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau to help promote our site and services beyond Westmoreland County.

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