Progress!!

Listeners of the World,

As many should note I have been boasting about a grand redesign of OurTown.com and I am here to give a much needed progress report! In this report I will touch on the programming side of the site and the design side of the site to give an overall report.

Over the past few months we have been working with Minimaal concepts on the design portion of the new OurTown.com. We are now over halfway done with having approved the new "front page", "local area portal", "Local editor admin", and "sign up process for users". We still have our new "ad sales portal" and "sign up process for local editors" left to be completed. We will look forward to approving those mock ups by the end of the month completing the design portion of the new site!

Now that we have covered the very important new design look for OurTown.com, we must cover the equally important functionality of the new site......the programming! Our team of programmers have been working for months now programming our new site in a completely new language.....ASP.NET. They have now completed almost all of the databases, the new structure of the site and are working on the new content management system. They still have about a month and half to two months worth of work left and are hoping to start meshing up the look with functionality early April. They have been working hard to make sure the none of the local editors have to work hard while using the site!

In my next post I will be posting links to the new design and will hopefully have a much more detailed update on the programming work. Until next time...

Your OurTown Superhero,

Chris

The New Year.

Listeners of the World,

It has been some time since my last post for the holiday season is getting the better of the OurTown Team with constant work! We have just decided on a design team (Minimaal) to tackle the redesign of our site and bring it into the Web 2.o world. Minimaal IT is a company out of the UK with great design and UI skills that will properly showcase our new site with the new features. They will start working on different ideas after the new year and will have something up by the spring of next year. Our programming team is also making great progress showing that they are on track and on time to be able to launch the new site in the spring of 2010. As for marketing team and I we have been hard at work recruiting the "right" local editors to make this site a success. We have also been working hard on taking on the social media arena and making a competitive contest schedule for the new year. We hope that all of this change will spark a new interest in hyper-local news for it is great need to many people across the United States.

Your OurTown SuperHero,

Chris