First EDC Supported Web Site Up

After months of preparation and the assistance of many local partners, the first web site to be built for Stokes County businesses by the Stokes County Economic Development Commission is on the web. The link is : http://www.hemlockgolfcourse.com/ There is still work being done to fill out events and create the persona of the site but it already looks great. There are links to their facebook page and a blog. This site should help the course draw play from outside the area and allow them to create attention as the closest mountain golf course to the Triad and Triangle areas of North Carolina. I am so pleased to see the progress they are making and will be following their efforts in the future.



The web building project is supported by a grant from Northwest Piedmont Workforce Development Incumbent Workers Grant Program. The sites are being built on templates provided and designed by NVizion, a local Stokes County Company and are being built by interns from the local community. There is no charge to the companies for the design and uploading of the sites. They simply provide the information and the background on what they expect the site to do. The companies pay for their domain name and hosting, about $60/year. Their sites will be linked to the Stokes EDC Site www.stokesedc.org our Stokes County facebook page and Buy Local Blog.

There are approximately 30 companies that have requested assistance from this program and it is our goal to build as many sites as are needed. If you have a company in Stokes County or know of someone that does and they need a site have them give me a call or send me an email: adwood@co.stokes.nc.us