Weever Apps, a project started by CartaNova and now lead by Rob and Andrew of CartaNova has now launched a "free mobile apps" plan, whereby anyone with Joomla or WordPress can get noticed on the mobile web for free!  Just go to WeeverApps.com and sign up for your free HTML5 web-app!

As web designers, we quickly recognized that our green business and community not-for-profit clients had no way to affordably participate on the mobile web. So we took a walk. We spent two days hiking on the Bruce Trail (near Tobermory, Ontario) talking about the future of the web. We wanted to make the mobile web more affordable, accessible, and democratic.

Now Weever Apps is here! The basic version is only $30 per year now free and we want your help to get the word out.  Plese share our story on Twitter and beyond!

Details on Weever below - Thanks! - Andrew and Rob

CartaNova Web Design & Marketing is a full-service digital marketing studio that exclusively serves a green business, renewable energy and community not-for-profit clientele. We also provide wind-power web hosting.  We’re happy to have some great clients and a good reputation in our industry. We’re now looking for someone to help us serve even more good initiatives.

Learn more about us in this Hamilton Spectator newspaper article.

Editor's Note:  This post was *bumped* up again in our blog on March 25th due to high interest!

This is big! I'm very excited to introduce Weever, our new service that creates a mobile version of any Joomla! or Wordpress web site in minutes.

Sometimes a little kernel of truth cuts through the marketing.. I was reading Slashdot tonight and noticed an advert for Canada: Get Your Business Online, a 'free web site' promotion by Google, Rogers and a number of other large media and internet corporations here in Canada.

..and I had a nice laugh when I clicked on 'Success Stories' and got a blank 500 error page (pictured above, slightly altered).  True enough.

On March 2, we participated in Hamilton’s first DemoCamp. We had a great time courtesy of the amazing and unbelievably helpful folks at the Hamilton Innovation Factory and the Greater Hamilton Computing and Software Network.  For the first time in public, we showed Weever, our true HTML5 "instantly-make-your-site-a-web-app" service (in this case for the Joomla! CMS).

I wrote the post below titled "Keeping it Simple (and Smart) for Solar Hot Water" for our blog at Renewable Energy World but I thought I'd share it here as well.  In almost every industry (web design, especially) there is desire for simple, efficient solutions to common problems.

We're presenting a talk on Democracy, the Mobile Web and Joomla! this Thursday Feb.17th  to the Joomla! User Group Meeting for South Western Ontario (JUGSWO).  Join us!  Details below...