J. R. Ransom

Over the past ten years taosplaza.com a gone through several stages of growth. Our most recent series of upgrades have increased the power and efficiency of taosplaza.com tremendously. The new technologies have also created a much more interesting browsing experience for visitors to this site, such as yourself. We hope you like what we've done.

We moved to a new and very powerful new hosting service. We've upgraded some back end technologies to improve speed and flexibility. We've begun deploying new services for taosplaza.com's global viewers. We've begun to increase our content at an ever growing rate. These are important times in the whole world and taosplaza.com provides information and insights about many important issues in clear and insightful ways that we hope provide a progressive 'new media' perspective on these issues that effect us all whether we are physically in Taos or elsewhere in the world.

We think that you'll really love some of the new features of taosplaza.com like translation into 24 languages from English to Hindi, from French to Chinese, and try Arabic, too. There's a way cool new moon phase calculator. And some old favorites are back, including, Daily Horoscopes, Daily Weather Forecasts, A new photo of sacred Taos Mountain every 15 seconds, as well as daily reports on ski resort conditions (in season). And we've got some other new features coming up in the future.

New Internet Hosting Service
The first major step taken during the summer of 2008 by Taos Music & Art, Inc. (TMA), owner / operator of taosplaza.com and the other sites of the taosplaza.com Group of Web sites was shifting Web site hosting to a new Internet Service Provider (ISP). Our earlier Taos-based ISP was an excellent smaller service, but now that taosplaza.com is pushing toward tens of thousands of pages, it became necessary to move to a much larger server facility in a major city.

Upgrading to Web 2.0 Dynamic Technologies
The Web is being improved constantly. One might actually say that the Web is being improved by leaps and bounds every day. As you can see, the most obvious step that is currently being taken at taosplaza.com is our new template design and navigation. The reconfiguration loads content faster, can handle way more content and opens the door to many more Web 2.0 syndication and aggregation technologies for addition of large amounts of informational content.

A Great Local Resource Plus Content That Matters
From the very beginning taosplaza.com has been about the future, just as the Web is about the future. The issues exposed on taosplaza.com are in many cases about the future - the future of the environment, future of the food we eat, our transportation, our wellness, our spirituality, our prosperity. Whatever your interest there is something for the person looking for information about visiting Taos itself, or people looking for perspective on issues that simply are not available from what could be called 'traditional media.' There are a lot of people and organizations out there working to 'get the truth out' and taosplaza.com is proud to be associated with an ever growing number of them.