Spring 2011

Hi again! Things have been hectic this spring! We have moved (physically) the things from our casa vacanze in Italy to our new residence in Switzerland – which itself is down the mountain into the valley from where we were!

We also have some new sites and have retired a few that (unfortunately) you would not recognise the name of! The new sites are (starting with the latest) http://jimmycraigwebsites.ch – this is a home page that we are using to experiment with some new things we wanted to try out. Another recent addition is GEOCOGEN AG, which is a corporate site for the same company that is running GEOCOGEN as a technically-oriented blog. Another new site is Iliana’s Blog, a dual-language site (Bulgarian and English) that is designed to be different things to different people – a cookbook site, a social site for Iliana’s friends and family, and (we hope) an income-producing site.

We added a few blogs onto established sites where we took over the maintenance:

• the Google PageRank 4 site ICEC.ch is the home of the International Clean Energy Consortium and the domain http://icec.info now redirects to the home site. ICEC is the parent company of GEOCOGEN AG
• UNISEO.org is the PageRank 5 home page for the UN-recognised NGO International Sustainable Energy Organisation and we have added a blog with a similar name http://uniseo.info and similar subjects to try to get some of the traffic away from the Lake Iseo vacation hotels, etc. in Italy
• We also added an integrated blog into the PageRank 4 CMDC to recover some credibility for the website, bring it back into a reasonable ranking position, and get some more interesting material on line

We also added a personal site for my son, David, called David’s Birthday, with the idea that we could accumulate some things there that will remain interesting over the years.

That’s been about enough for the time being – but we are approaching the opening of La Maison d’Yvette’s online store – at the same time that we re-open the brick-and-mortar store here in Switzerland (relocated from Italy). That will be exciting! Stay tuned, and read the LMDY blog and the online sales site LMDY Shop every now and then to see how far along we are with the project.