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The winter of 2008-2009 was certainly a busy one! In addition to all our regular maintenance sites, we developed several sites for non-profits and municipal organizations, including a redesign of the popular Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District. This site was huge, and really needed to be re-organized from the ground up. We customized a clean, green Joomla template, created a huge number of custom graphics, and spent hours sorting through the complex information that was already present on the site, and launched in February. The new site has gotten some attention — in April we were invited to speak at a workshop on “Building Effective Websites” at the Northeast Resource Recovery Association’s 28th Annual Conference & Expo in Manchester, NH, June 8th, 2009, using this website as an example of effective site design.

In February we also celebrated our 10th year of publishing the Town of Weathersfield’s, 250-page Annual Town Report, the official record of all the pertinent information regarding the Town’s government, including reports of all local agencies, elected officials, and official boards and commissions, Town budgets for the both the past and upcoming fiscal year, auditor’s reports, Town Meeting warnings and minutes, list of all appointed and elected officials, voting results of all elections during the past fiscal year, vital records, etc.  All this takes place in a short five-week span in January and February of each year, after which the Report is mailed to every household in Town in time for Annual Town Meeting. We are proud to be part of this important aspect of our Town’s government.

A smaller, yet no less important site we put together this winter was the All-One-Family Fund site, which is a foundation that helps facilitate both international and US-based adoptions. The foundation is the brainchild of a local philanthropist, who began the foundation with money from the sale of her home in Vermont. She is also writing a memoir of her own adoption story, and will use the proceeds from the sale of her book to help finance the foundation. This is a very worthwhile project, and one that is dear to our hearts as we have many friends and  loved ones whose lives have been touched by adoption. Although finished, the site is now on hold, it is planned to go live once Titia’s book is published later this year.

Stay tuned for more big news coming soon!

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