Brilliant job by Andrew Kingston of Arkutech.ie in building the new bandon.ie site.
A quick poke around confirmed that it is built on the same fantastic WordPress foundation as this fine blog.
A certain person named Donncha O’Caoimh is one of the main developers of WordPress and just lives a few miles away in Blarney. Bandon is clearly commited to buying local. OK WordPress is free but you get my point!
The site is now much easier for Trevor and the crew to update regularly and most importantly of all, the site now has comments. This might seem a small thing to you but the importance of giving people the ability to have their voice heard online about local issues should never be underestimated.
The site is a superb local community resource, so head on over right away and check out the new site. And leave a comment there!
p.s. if you are a Twitter user and want to keep abreast of updates on the new Bandon site, just follow @bandon there and it’ll automatically post a link any time there is a update.
June 10, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Thank you for the kind words Conor. I was glad to be able to help and using WordPress was really a no-brainer!
I think the fact that the blog is now integrated in the site will make it much simpler for people to follow and as you said it will also be easier for Trevor to update. Hopefully that will help it to become a valuable resource for us locals and those further afield.
June 11, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Looks very good! Wish Blarney took as much interest in having a local site.