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Prudential Steamboat Realty

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, September 28, 2007

A few weeks ago, I released Prudential Steamboat Realty’s new site into the wild. It is my first (but not last) large site built in Django to go live. As usual, ashwebmedia did a great job on redesigning the site …

Lincoln Loop Goes Green

By Peter Baumgartner on Monday, September 10, 2007

I’m proud to announce that, as of today, Lincoln Loop, LLC has become a completely carbon neutral business. Our footprint was pretty minimal to start. Our shared server, Olivia, only draws about 180 watts or 1 ton of CO2 a …

Goodbye WordPress, I'm Leaving You

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, August 31, 2007

WordPress, you seemed perfect at first. You saved me lots of development time, seemed to have a plugin for everything I needed, and a user interface that was easy for anybody to use. The honeymoon has worn off though. It …

Bear Lodge Site

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, August 24, 2007

Just put the final touches on www.bearlodgesteamboat.com. It is a WordPress site designed by ashwebmedia, then hand-coded into a custom WordPress theme at Lincoln Loop.

Waterside Day Spa Site

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, June 1, 2007

The new Waterside Day Spa site is out the door. The site was built using WordPress as the backend CMS with a custom theme developed by myself and designed by the talented Derek Ashauer of ashwebmedia. Overall, I’m very pleased …

Basecamp SVN Integration

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, May 4, 2007

As promised, here is the follow-up to the SVN for Web Developers post, Basecamp integration. Why? Transparency is very important to my business. The #1 complaint I hear about web developers is that they rarely meet deadlines and the client …

Subversion for Web Developers

By Peter Baumgartner on Tuesday, April 24, 2007

I switched from Ubuntu Linux to a Mac last week. I knew the new system would force me to adapt my workflow a bit so I figured it would be a good opportunity to break some bad habits. One of …

The Victoria Site

By Peter Baumgartner on Thursday, April 12, 2007

I just wrapped up development on a website for The Victoria, a high-end mixed use development in downtown Steamboat. Derek at ashwebmedia is the designer behind the site. It is the first work we’ve done together and he really nailed …

Long Live Lincoln Loop

By Peter Baumgartner on Friday, March 30, 2007

A copy of this letter went out to the NDS Internet client list today. I am pleased to announce that as of April 1, 2007, NDS Internet will become Lincoln Loop, LLC, Steamboat Springs’ only company dedicated exclusively to website …