The HideAway

The menu page now has a PDF version of the menu posted.

And the Directions page now has a map.

Jim Spaulding says they’re extending the 4th of July special one more week:

Declare your independence from your stale old coffee!

Bring in a tin or a bag of your coffee and exchange it for our special blend of America the Beautiful coffee, absolutely free.

For every customer who does this, we’ll donate $1 to the Northfield Soccer Association for their current fund drive for the Spring Creek Park Soccer Complex.

We’ve got the beginnings of our photo gallery up, with a few indoor and outdoor shots of the coffeehouse.

There will be more to come, featuring patrons like Curt Benson above, owner of Fab Lab and a Sunday morning regular.

You can now contact the Spauldings via their email addresses, using the form on the Contact Us page.

We won’t publish any email addresses on the site to prevent spambots from harvesting them. But the form is just as quick, if not quicker.

You can now subscribe to the Larson’s Printing e-newsletter/weblog digest by using the box on the upper right corner of this home page.

One click gets you on the list. One click gets you off.

We’ve now added RSS to this weblog. What’s RSS?

It’s a radio signal for a website, most commonly used for weblogs. More technically: “Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable “What’s New” for your site.” See Intro to RSS for more info.

The Newspaper Association of America site has an informative article titled Syndication Made Simple. “Just as free e-mail newsletters enable publishers to directly reach readers and promote online and in-paper content, RSS “pushes” headlines and succinct, one-sentence article descriptions to those who subscribe to the no-cost feeds.”

The other side of syndication is aggregation. Here’s an article from Wired News that explains why aggregators are all the rage: Aggregators Attack Info Overload.

This icon is the cue that we’re RSS capable. So train your aggregator to grab content from James Gang Coffeehouse & Eatery syndicated weblog.

Watch for weblog posts from the Spauldings… real soon now.

In the meantime, we’ll continue building the web site and posting notes here as each page is ready.

Griff Wigley
Wigley and Associates