When we first kicked off this new venture, I made a few simple decisions on technology. The first was that we were going to take an agile approach with everything and particularly using agile languages and web frameworks. Over the past ten years I've had major success with projects which used Tcl, Perl and Python [...]

It now has an embedded hCard with our minimal contact details. There is also a link which you can click on to grab a VCF for import into Outlook. This obviously won't be the only use of microformats on the site Oh and, cough, it now passes the W3C validator.

I just commented over at Eirepreneur that you should pay no attention to the design of the landing page at loudervoice.com. That is literally the default page in any TurboGears app with the text changed. In fact the server is not even running TG yet. We'll do that when we add a sign-up for beta [...]

We've had LouderVoice.com since the name was decided. BTW feel free to comment on the name, we purposely avoided the current obsession with madey-up nonsense names and went with something descriptive. Since then I've added the usual bunch of .org, .net, .co.uk and even .biz because GoDaddy were doing dirt cheap deals. Of course .ie [...]