Athy DirectoryLaunched September 2009
The Athy Directory came into being after combining our need for a local directory for our home town (Athy) and the Athy Chamber wanting to promote businesses in the town. We had previously worked with Athy Chamber on their website, so we collaborated together to create the Athy Directory.
There are many Irish directories online, both local and national. We wanted to create something more streamlined- we know how frustrating it is waiting for a site to load numerous adverts as well as the information you're looking for.
We built a custom PHP-driven content management system to handle business information and allowing businesses to be categorised easily. We modified a PHP spidering function, to index the contents of the site, allowing for more accurate search results, without hitting the data base too hard.
Our aim is to make this site as useful to Athy residents as possible. Using the RSS feed from Yahoo Weather, we display the latest forecast for Athy (which is actually quite accurate, kudos Yahoo), we only accept advertising from Athy businesses and organisations and we also display news and events relating to Athy, from the Athy Chamber website (using RSS feeds again).
Pixelcode were responsible for every aspect of this site, we designed, developed and produced the site, in-house. We even created the illustration graphic at the top of the site, which illustrates the Crom Abu Bridge and White's Castle, both local landmarks.
Link: http://www.athydirectory.com/ Date Launched: 25 September 2009
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