Major Upgrade for Chittenden Dammers Web Site

Chittenden Dammers Home Page Web Site Banner

The Chittenden Dammers asked me to modernize their compact web site and I did it by switching to an all WordPress design!  They formerly had two separate blogs: Trail Conditions – http://chittendendammers.wordpress.com News and Announcements – http://dammersadmin.wordpress.com Both were on WordPress.com and had less than ideal URL’s. Now I have merged them into one self …

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Shrewsbury Sno-Birds Saver Card Updates

Shrewsbury Sno-Birds Banner

Updated members page and added several blog posts concerning the Sno-Birds Saver Card as the news came in.

Latest Construction and Improvement Photos – Chittenden Grange Hall

Not my construction project but I found a photo for the Chittenden Historical Society that was missing in their gallery in the Chittenden Historical Society web site. The Roof Repair shot fills out the photos of the latest improvement to the Chittenden Grange Hall. It has been added to the web site’s gallery which was previously …

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New Web Site for Sno-Birds

Shrewsbury Sno-Birds Banner

I have been working on a WordPress blog and web site for a snowmobile club called the Shrewsbury Sno-Birds. I understand a snowmobile club needs members as it is membership fees that, in great part, fund such a club. The site tries to bring in new members to it’s ranks and be informational to members. …

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No Spam! Four days and counting.

So far so good. Not a bit of comment spam since I installed the plugin Spam Free. 🙂 See previous blog for details.

Spam Free WordPress Plugin

It is amazing how much spam wafts around. Just what is the object of comment spam, I have to wonder. (See Wikipedia’s take on it below.) I suppose it is getting someone else to host links to your web site to increase traffic and improve the spammer’s Google rating by having more links on other sites. That …

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Fleece on Earth, the Original

Original Fleece On Earth site home page

Here is the original (now abandoned) Fleece on Earth web site that I built from a concept site. The current site is managed by the owner using CMS. Before moving to CMS, I managed the original site which was simple HTML in a frames format using a navigation page in the left frame (column) while content …

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WPtouch Mobile Theme

When I first installed WordPress I noticed the default theme, Twenty Eleven, supplied a mobile version for smart phones. When I later installed the theme Graphene and though it has some amazing features, the mobile theme for it was not included. By chance, I stumbled onto a plugin called WPtouch made to work with any …

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Home Page and Schedule Update for “Romancing the Stone”

Always a pleasure to see Melissa Flanagan’s new creations. This image is the new featured piece appearing on the home page. Also Melissa’s show schedule has been updated for 2012 as well as some price changes due to an increase in silver prices. See the updated home page or the featured pendant in the gallery. …

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Grange Hall Images Updated

I noticed that the images in the Phase III gallery were smaller than the rest. Having found my original copies I reloaded them to the gallery as well as adding a second Phase III gallery with more photos that were missing from the original gallery. The Grange Hall project has really come a long way. …

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