More than you ever wanted to know about Alabama native Joe Watts
This website is still very much a work in progress, but it is moving along, so thought I’d share it here first. It started out for five counties in East Alabama, but has expanded to eight. The project is to inventory, highlight and promote the resources in the region that make it special. Here’s a snapshot:
Recently finished a new website for my long-time friends at CAWACO RC&D. They were one of my very first clients, and I’ve been working with them for about 11 years now. Great folks. Great projects. One of the great things about working with WordPress websites is the ability to completely change the look and functionality of a site without having the do much of anything with the content. A few tweaks of some tags, changing a few photos around and bang: a new look to a site that really needed a refresh!
Just completed (well, last month) a website that has been in the works for over a year. CEDS (the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy) is a periodic statewide project done by the Regional Planning Commissions around Alabama. They asked me to help them put it on the web.
Wrapped up a website for the Perry County Chamber of Commerce several months ago and just tweaked it a little more to add some additional movement to the front page. They have a huge selection of audio files of Perry County natives telling stories about many of the historic structures found in Perry County. I’ve included the audio files along with maps and gps coordinates to each site. Makes me want to head to Perry County! (For those who don’t know, Perry County is in Southwest Alabama just a bit over an hour from Birmingham. The largest city–and home to some excellent antique shopping–is Marion, Alabama.)
Both of these still need some work, but I’m pretty pleased overall with each of them.
Wrapped up a project for Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park several months ago, but failed to mention it here. I really am enjoying working with WordPress. Just wrapped up several newsletters today as well; one for an insurance company and another for AIA Birmingham (both web-based). Now I’ve got to finish up a website for an engineering firm, The University Center for Economic Development at UA and several other projects…. Lots to do. At least I don’t have to venture outside in this unbearable heat!