We have long thought that the community of Ligonier, PA needed a community portal website that would serve as an, “e-meeting” place, if you will. A website for Ligonier and surrounding communities to post their business and organization information. A website to discuss the issues effecting our community. How about a site to share photos, stories, local sports scores, and even maybe start your own blog? Well, we’ve done it!

www.eligonier.com or iligonier.com or ligonierpa.net (they all lead to the same place), is up and running. So, click on over there, take a look around, and start having some fun! Registered users can create a blog, create and post to forums, submit articles, chat, search, comment, upload photos to the gallery, sell–or buy–something in the classifieds and there ismuch more to come. Check it out.

Nimisila Creek Kennels are breeders of Llewellin Setters (this author’s favorite subject). We redesigned the site with lots of great photos of their fine Llewellin Setters and puppies. The site is eye-catching and fun!

The Nimisila Creek site is tableless using css and standards-compliant code. Visit Nimisila Creek Llewellin Setters Website.

Check out the fabulous, newly redesigned Lynnhill Llewellin Setter’s website! Lynnhill Llewellin Setters are breeders of Llewellin Setters–gun dogs for the discriminating upland bird hunter. There are none better than Lynnhill.

Using the fantastic cms system, Joomla, August Affect has completely redesigned the website for the Ligonier Valley YMCA. The site is now interactive and easily updateable by the staff of Ligonier Valley YMCA. Have a look! The design is clean-cut and simple and validates XHTML STRICT 1.0 and CSS.

Future upgrades to the site are on-line registration for programs, on-line contributions, and much, much more!

On Saturday, April 28th, 2007 August Affect Design launched “huntingdoggear.com”. Hunting Dog Gear is a company that offers Beautiful Amish made leather goods for the upland hunting dog. This is an ecommerce site featuring all of their products. The site is fast loading, with optimized photos showing off the gear.

The Hunting Dog Gear site was built using Cube Cart, the Open Source Cart Software and a customized template was created to match the site design the client desired to use. Visit Hunting Dog Gear.

Laurel Llewellin Setters was in need of a web site to showcase their beautiful hunting dogs and their litter of pups. The design features tableless css, two-column fixed-width presentation with simple navigation and a complimentary color scheme.. Fast loading, optimized photos show off the dogs. Have a look! The design is clean-cut and simple and validates XHTML STRICT 1.0 and CSS.

Future enhancements to the laurelllewellins.com site include more photos of the dogs hunting, possible video clips, forms, more suggested links, and details of the progress of the training of the puppies.

Patti Campbell from Campbell House Bed & Breakfast was interested in having some changes made to her website, campbellhousebnb.com. After meeting with Patti and discussing her needs, it was suggested that we not only “make a few changes”, but that we completely through-out the old site and design a brand-new, fresh, up-to-date, “wow” site to really show-off the beauty of Campbell House Bed & Breakfast.

We started with an eye-catching new design, found an elegant font that Patti liked to use for the logo and headers, we then took many, many new photos of the beautiful rooms at Campbell House, incorporating them into fantastic flash-based slide shows that are nestled at the top of each page of the newly designed site, showcasing the uniqueness and beauty of the rooms.

Patti also requested that her new site include a blog feature. We used a Word Press installation and designed it to integrate beautifully with the new site design. Patti can use the blog to feature special packages, holiday specials, etc.,without too much effort and complying with her request to not need too much updating services for the main site.

Have you heard about Mikons? Well, mikons (for ‘my icons’) is the new social website where you can create a fairly simple “icon” with the kick-butt on-line vector drawing tool that the founders, Mark & Kenna Smith have dubbed, “the Mikon Machine”.

The Mikon Machine has been called the “Web-A-Sketch” and (if you couldn’t guess) resembles an Etch-A-Sketch. Users can pick from a variety of tools and objects and create their Mikon.

The Mikons sightings gallery showcases all the places that Mikons logos have been spotted! Mikons creators can take a pic of how and where they are using their new Mikon and add it to the gallery. The gallery is a great resource for inspiration on creating your Mikon, as well as how far you can go with putting it to good use. Then, connect with other members in the Mikons Connect area to meet others, see profiles, the Mikons they have created, create a list of friends and even add tags to each Mikon.

Hop on over to www.mikons.com. See all the cool mikons that the Mikon Community has created. Create one yourself, then have it printed on a t-shirt. Share your mikon everywhere!

WOOT!