Old Town Lansing is
benefiting from Old
Town citizen Andy Detskas’ web-building talent. Detskas recently created an interactive site for the Old
Town Commercial Association and the neighborhood he loves.
“Not only was it a chance for him to show off the things
he can do, but it also gave him a chance to give back to the community,” says
Old Town Commercial Association Executive Director Jamie Schriner-Hooper.
Detskas lives in an Old Town
loft and started working on the site several months ago. His work vastly
improved the site and prevented the Old Town Commercial Association from
spending thousands of dollars to redo its site.
The site, www.iloveoldtown.org, features an interactive
map and links to all participating Old
Town businesses, and has links to member businesses’ own web sites.
Businesses without a web site can have Detskas design a page that also
links to the main site.
“This allows us to build a web presence for so many small
businesses that are just starting off and don’t have an opportunity to build a
site,” Schriner-Hooper says.
The site is also user friendly, allowing the Old Town
Commercial Association employees to change content rather than forcing staff to
pay a web manager to oversee site content.
Source: Jamie Schriner-Hooper, Old Town
Commercial Association
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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