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The Ashe County Chamber of Commerce gets a brand new Joomla Website
The new Ashe County Chamber of Commerce website is built on a Joomla platform and has tons of goodies built into the site. Overall the design will reflect the season at hand and rotate throughout the year. Click here to visit the Ashe Chamber of Commerce. Some of the major highlights of the site include:
New Joomla!/WordPress Website and Blog launch: Terra Nostra Decor located in Asheville NC
http://www.TerraNostraDecor.com : WordPress Blog
Because the world should have NO boundaries, because Beauty makes NO distinction.
Our inspiration…
Love for world, culture, art and design.
Our Concept…
To offer a global approach to fashion and lifestyle, while following classic and sometimes primitive designs.
Our Commitment…
To be part of one active community while being part of one world.
In Asheville people like to play,and the undeniable need of expression is taken to the individual form. As a result, we have places like Lexington Ave as our runway.
With a very distinctive fashion culture in the community, we at Terra Nostra Decor decided to offer something new: A clothing line that could reflect the metaphoric spirit of Asheville, both urban and cosmopolitan, but with no attachment to one place. Global, adventurous, warm and sexy, simple and comfortable.
Mickey Harte Music : WordPress website launch by Big Boom Design
Here at Big Boom Design we’re proud to be launching a brand new WordPress website for Eurovision star, Mickey Harte.
To say thanks for your support we wanted to send you some NEW music for the holidays.
We’ve included some details about the artist, Mickey Harte, and are excited about working with him in the new year.
Enjoy this awesome new song from Mickey:
At the age of 15 Mickey Harte began his musical career entertaining audiences, singing and playing guitar in venues around the N.W. of Ireland. This quickly developed into a full time job when he and some musician friends formed the band “Kryptix” writing and recording his first original album at 17 with the band, while at the same time finishing 2nd level education at St.Columba’s Collage, in his native Co.Donegal. He completed 5 years and successfully passed the leaving cert exams.
From there Mickey moved straight into 3rd level education studying the “Rock school-Performance” course at Senior collage, Ballyfermot, Dublin, and was awarded a Merit grade from city of Dublin V.E.C.
Continuing to perform with his band for some years and gaining valuable experience on the road, eventually Mickey felt the need to go his own way and embarked on a solo career as a full time singer/songwriter, playing acoustic clubs and theatres and supporting many well known Irish and international artist during that period.
Ski the High Country of Boone NC – New Joomla Website launch from Big Boom Design
Complete information on skiing and winter sports in the North Carolina High Country is just a mouse click away thanks to the re-launch of SkiTheHighCountry.com.
The redesigned and upgraded website now features everything skiers need to know about the High Country’s three ski resorts – Appalachian Ski Mountain, Beech Mountain Resort and Sugar Mountain Resort – as well as key info on the snow tubing park at Hawksnest Resort.
Visitors to SkiTheHighCountry.com can access live webcams for real-time conditions, view trail maps, check rates and hours of operations, receive details on ice skating, and browse accommodations. There’s also a dining guide and an overview of activities away from the slopes.
Photo galleries of each resort, featuring the work of award-winning photographer Todd Bush of Banner Elk, are included.
The site was created by Big Boom Design of Asheville and is produced and maintained by North Carolina High Country Host.
High Country Host is a tourism marketing organization that promotes travel to North Carolina’s High Country, a five-county region anchored by the popular towns of: Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Blowing Rock, Boone, Linville, Sparta, West Jefferson and Wilkesboro.
To view the new site, go online to www.SkiTheHighCountry.com.
For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.
11 Best WordPress Plugins for your Website or Blog Platform
These are the 11 best plugins that you can get for your wordpress website and/or blog. If you have any questions about setup or customization please feel free to contact me. I install these eleven plugins anytime I setup a new WordPress site for a client. I hope you’ll enjoy them.
All in One SEO Pack – Lets you customize the title, description and keywords for every page and post on your wordpress website or blog. An absolute must have!
Google Analytics for WordPress – Google Analytics allows you to easily track your website visitors, keywords, top content, conversion rates, bounce rates, etc…
Google XML Sitemaps – Creates a complete sitemap for the search engines.
NextGEN Gallery – The easiest gallery plugin available to wordpress users. Accommodates slideshows and easy image manipulation.
Page Links To – Lets you create a menu item and link it to an external URL.
SexyBookmarks – Customizable pop-up bookmark links
Twitter Friendly Links – Creates a Twitter link that is much more friendly than your traditional wordpress URL
WP-Cumulus – Add a spinning flash tag and/or category widget to your sidebar
WP-SpamFree – Keeps all the spam bots from posting junk comments
WP Security Scan – Keep an eye on the server security and make sure your wordpress installation is running properly
WP Super Cache – Creates an HTML page that is much more lightweight than the traditional PHP deliverable page
New Joomla CMS website launch, The High Country Host of Boone NC
Tourists interested in the North Carolina High Country have a dynamic new resource for visitor info thanks to a redesign and upgrade of High Country Host’s website, www.MountainsofNC.com.
The new site contains information on lodging, attractions, festivals, shopping, restaurants, heritage events and outdoors activities. There is also a blog, calendar of events, a section for specials & deals, High Country maps and a downloadable vacation planner.
“This new site pulls together all the key information visitors need to plan a trip to the High Country,” says Millie Barbee, executive director of High Country Host. “And, it is user-friendly. There are multiple ways to navigate the site to quickly find what you’re looking for.”
This new site was created by Big Boom Design of Asheville, using a Joomla platform. It incorporates the latest in website technology, including advanced search engine optimization.
“Our desire was to build a site that’s easy to navigate and brings as much information above the fold and to the surface as possible,” said Boomer Sassmann of Big Boom Design. “It’s a well organized second-generation website that also incorporates social media aspects such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.”
The look and feel of the website will change quarterly to match the four distinct seasons that draw visitors to the High Country.
“If this were a traditionally built website, we wouldn’t be able to do that,” Sassmann says, “but because of this Joomla content management system, it is easy to change the look without altering the content.”
To view the new site, go online to www.MountainsofNC.com.
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Purgasons Summerfield, NC
Purgasons is located in Summerfield North Carolina just outside of Greensboro. They specialize in all things horse related. From Western Tack to English Riding Wear, Purgasons has it all. You can shop online for Montana Silversmith’s western wear and browse local horse shows and events directly on the blog.
The website is built on an osCommerce platform with an integrated WordPress blog to handle events, shows, riding lessons, and information about local stables.
Purgasons
Marley Carroll : The Melanaster Band : Mr. Invisible
Bringing new meaning to the term “Two turntables and a microphone”. Marley Carroll is taking the Asheville, NC music scene by storm. Carroll preformes solo acts all over town as well as with his three man band Mr.Invisible. Check out these sick DJ skills in his “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” Video.
Be sure to catch Marley on July 24th, 8pm at club 828 in Asheville, NC.
Marks Wicked Decals : Motorcycle and Boat Decals
Hot off the press this week from Big Boom Design is Marks Wick Decals based in Vilas, North Carolina. Marks Smith has been in the Vinal Decal Business for over a decade. His specialties are Motorcycle and Boat Decals.
Site Details: http://www.MarksWickedDecals.com is built on a WordPress 2.8 platform. It has a built in shopping cart, Photo Decal Contest and a custom Flash Sideshow on the homepage.
Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production
Check out the most recent BigBoomDesign creation at http://new.wrapapparel.org/
The WRAP website is built on a Joomla 1.5.9 platform with a custom design to match the companies professional yet educational approach to business. This website also has a WordPress blog to handle all news articles, seminar dates and other events held by WRAP. The WRAP Blog can be seen here.
