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:

• Ashe County Business Directory
• Calendar of Events
• Digital Visitor Guide
• Social Media
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Blog Updates – RSS
  • Embedded YoutTube Channel
• Visitor Info
• Relocation Guide
• Area Weather
• Chamber Information

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.

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.

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:

Christmas Day by Mickey Harte

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.

Mickey returned to collage to further study his music and completed a 2 year BTEC national

Diploma course in popular Music at N.W.I.F.H.E. Derry City. and received a distinction.

In 2002 Mickey reluctantly auditioned for a brand new T.V. talent show called “you’re a star” on R.T.E. the program took Ireland by storm and Mickey became a house-hold name after winning the competition out right. as part of the winning prize he represented Ireland in the 2003 Eurovision song competition in Riga, Latvia. signing a record deal with Sony records U.K. and recording the #1 album “sometimes right, sometimes wrong” with U.K. producer John Kelly (Paul mc cartney, Chris Rea, kate bush), and We’ve got the world” became the biggest and fastest selling single in Ireland that year.

In 2004 Mickey moved on from Sony to set up his own label “swerve music” and to date has released 1 full length “Live and Learn”, 2 ep’s and 6 singles on swerve. and is currently working on 2nd full length for release spring 2010.

recently Mickey signed a publishing deal with elevate music for the album “live and learn” and some of his past catalogue, www.elevatemusic.net and is currently working as a contributor and mentor on RTE’s “star search” for young peoples programming. www.rte.ie/ice click on(star search).

This has in turn led to a project called “Musicool Europe” established with friend and TV presenter Brian Ormond. Also a veteran songwriter and performer Francie Conway (song writing coach-the rock school, Dublin). The project is an educational and Music based program for young performers, musicians and bands. www.bebo.com/musicooleurope the last 12 months have been busy for Mickey with gigs both in Ireland and Europe(Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France) and other side projects including writing the theme music for TV’s celeb boxing program “lords of the ring” summer 09.

Various contributions and performances on the Ryan show (2fm), RTE’s late late show, and TV3′s Ireland AM, Expose, Irelands top 10′s.

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.

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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.

Stay Connected!

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

Be sure to catch Marley on July 24th, 8pm at club 828 in Asheville, NC.

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.

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.