If it has been a few weeks since you looked at the Your Town Alabama blog, you should really take a peek again. I’ve added several dozen entries in the last three weeks (almost one entry every day). Good stuff, I think. I’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of hits the website is getting on a daily basis as a result of the blog, so overall I’m very pleased.
And in other news, I’m off tomorrow to visit the folks in Thomasville to discuss Alabama’s Front Porches. This isn’t my site design (actually, it is the old State Tourism Department’s website design that was borrowed for use in the Black Belt). The site design works okay, but needs some work. There are some coding issues that need to be addressed. Keywords need to be modified to tighten the tourism focus to the Black Belt and the counties that this project concentrates on.
The content is in need of some work as well. That’s where I come in. I’m working with the University of Alabama and Ala-Tom RC&D to provide some additional content–and content direction. We’ll be meeting tomorrow to get some organizational discussions moving forward. This is a pretty big project, and really important, too. Having grown up so near there with sisters who still live there makes me want to do all I can to make it a better place–and to show other people what a wonderful place it already is!