More than you ever wanted to know about Alabama native Joe Watts
One of my oldest clients / favorite projects: Your Town Alabama. Created a website back in 2001, changed it in around 2007 and then moved it to Moveable Type in 2009 or so. Finally got around to porting it to WordPress. Much easier to work with interface on the back end–obviously. Simple, clean look on the front end. Regular updates to the site; functional calendar of events for lots of statewide, regional and national conferences…
Just finished a draft of the Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments (TARCOG) website. Still some changes to make and a few compatibility issues to overcome (thanks Internet Explorer 7!), but looking good so far. Lots of capacity built in, including some cool mapping features. All built in WordPress, of course!
Wow! A little over a year ago, I started working the Center for Economic Development on the University of Alabama campus on a project with the Alabama Tourism Department. We took the project over from a consultant who had done a good bit of initial work into organizing folks. We held the first of four kick-offs last week, this one for the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail. We’ll be doing the other 3, along with some additional work on 4 that already exist to varying degrees in Alabama, over the next year. For now, explore the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail on the statewide website that I’ve set up: for the Alabama Birding Trails project: www.alabamabirdingtrails.com. It isn’t fully developed yet, but you can read about each of the sites, see photos for many of them and find all of them via gps mapping. What a great project! (Snapshot of the website below)
My brother-in-law, Billy Milstead, retired several years ago. Since then, he’s developed a real passion for all things Southwest Alabama. He’s got a real interest in documenting all the historic places in the area–of which there are many, many, many. He worked on the Alabama’s Front Porches project for a year, traveling the roads and taking photos as a AmeriCorps Vista volunteer. After he finished that project, he wanted to do more. I’ve now built him a website (Rural Southwest Alabama) to hold all these photos, maps and descriptions in a way that lets people from the outside world explore what the rural Black Belt has to offer.
Just completed a redo of the Highland Park neighborhood website (the neighborhood where I live!).
link to the site: Highland Park Neighborhood, Birmingham, Alabama
Oh, and the coolest thing: I finished redesigning the website (well, it isn’t really finished, but at least it is something…) just before finding out that our neighborhood was recognized by the American Planning Association (APA) as one of the 10 “Great Places” in 2011–for the entire U.S.A.!
Still tweaking some details on this website, but mostly wrapped up. Always nice to work on a project that encompasses the area where I grew up!
