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Little Loomhouse - New Website Design

I apologize for not posting very much in this blog so far, but I guess I’m the kind of web programmer who would rather do than blog about it.     But that’s no excuse of course.  So here goes…

Recently I completed a site makeover for the Little Loomhouse in Louisville.  Check out the new WebCommons page where I show what the website looked like before I did my magic, and what the website has been transformed into — a dramatically improved website, both visually and functionally (and the client wholeheartedly agrees!).

Like I say on the page… If your business or non-profit organization has an informational website that needs to come alive with programmed features and the easy ability for you to make changes to it, or even just receive a visual makeover, contact WebCommons — Get a quality result that everyone raves about, for a very reasonable price.

One of WebCommons’ non-profit pet projects, the local discussion board Louisville History & Issues, is becoming increasingly prominent in Louisville political and history circles, but even more interesting for discussion here, it is also becoming a highly functional (master?)piece of web software.

Louisville History & Issues (LouHI for short) is based on WebCommons’ fork of phpBB version 2 that is currently dubbed “Citizen Assembly Board” (CAB for short).   CAB has been in development for several years, and has many interesting and unusual features, many not even available on the newest version 3 of phpBB.   Of course it also doesn’t enjoy some of the newest features and design approach of phpBB 3, but that has its own set of pros and cons, and I will likely muse about that in a future post here.

LouHI is currently undergoing a phased release of its “Version 3″, which I am touting as the “finally useful!” version.   Read about the changes in Phase 1 as well as plans for later phases after the jump.

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