Time Flies :
It has been a very busy summer at Carden Guide. Much of the site has been reworked or refreshed, a lot of new content developed, and a new tag-line "On-line Magazine - Kawartha North".
Of special note, is the Real Estate Listings Category. Through the support of Remax Country Lakes Realty Inc. the real-estate listings pages have grown to more than 40 properties.
Our supporters:
Regular visitors will also have noticed a large number of new advertisers. In fact, we have introduced sixteen new advertisers. The support we have received from the local business community has been very encouraging; so much so, that we have begun new development of our Community Section.
Other New Stuff:
New content has been added, many images, and especially a new set of menus for the pages of Kirkfield. Bolsover. Dalrymple and Coboconk. These pages are currently in various stages of early development, nevertheless, you should be able to get an idea, as to the direction this section is going.
Our goal at Carden Guide is, among others, to provide information and services that are of use to the local community. We offer free web-pages to community organizations such as the Kirkfield Festival. Carden Guide is proud to be able to help promote this important annual community event.
Shortly, we will be implementing software upgrades that will allow community groups, to easily set-up and maintain their own web-pages both public and private. Only a little training and ongoing support will be needed. More about these new features - early in the new year.
It has been said that a website must constantly add new content and also change its' appearance every eighteen months, in order to appeal to repeat visitors. Our "new Carden Guide web-site" was introuced about eighteen months ago, 'how time flies'. So, along with the upgrades already mentioned we will also be introducing a new layout and design template for a new "look and feel".
Several upgrades will be made to the administrative back-end of the site that will not be apparent to the general public. Nevertheless, one of these up-grades is worth mentioning. Without getting technical, it is enough to say that, it will soon be even easier for search engines to catalogue this rapidly expanding web-site. The site now contains more than 2,000 url's.The result will be increased web-site traffic. We expect that our advertisers and event promoters will be the main beneficiary of this development. It may be possible to exceed 2,500,000 
hits on the site in our year ending March 2011, as compared to 1.400,000 hits the previous year.
It is also said that, - "If you build it, they will come".
We agree. But, "Only time will tell...."
