Home page of Killingtonlodging.com

Home page of Killingtonlodging.com

If anyone was questioning when the ski season would really kick off in the east, this weekend should give them the answer. Ski traffic in Killington this weekend has been strong. The mountain is blowing snow on intermediate and expert terrain all over the place. (Today snow making operations were visible on Middle Superstar, Upper Bittersweet, Skye Lark, and Cascades.) Ski shops, restaurants, and hotels are reporting a good uptick in business. And the guests in the area appear to be genuinely happy to be out on the mountains again. A very good weekend overall.

In addition to being an innkeeper, some of you may know that I also do a lot of internet marketing activities, much of it related to promoting the Killington area and our inn. One of my projects over the last several weeks has been a complete overhaul of a website we use to do joint marketing with several other lodging properties in the area called Killingtonlodging.com. For the techie's out there, in addition to regular html, the site uses multiple scripting languages including both php and javascript combined with web 2.0 capabilities implemented in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML). The site was cut over last night from it's test site. I have carried over a lot of nice features I developed for other websites including photo galleries I developed for the blog - killingtonblog.com - and google mapping functions, and weather functions I developed for another website I created this summer - Killingtonlinks.com. If you have a few minutes, take a look at both sites. They should be able to help you if you are planning a Killington vacation.