The Alford website was launched by Keith Butters of Bowhunter Websites in 2001 to promote Alford as a place to live, shop, visit and stay.

This Website is devoted to promoting the local Community. It is primarily financed by the People of Alford and district. Our objective is to inform the World about us; to tell them about ourselves, our town and what we offer to the visitor, potential resident and local people who live in Lincolnshire.
A special thanks to the Alford Crafmarket and the Civic Trust for their support and encouragement in this Community Project as well as Colin & June Martin (Craftmartins) and Steve Stirland (WhatNots).Keith and Janet Butters (founders of Bowhunter Websites and spilsby.info)

Built To Last

Businesses pay a modest annual fee for their own page which effectively sponsors the rest of the site’s content from free pages for groups, and clubs to the publicising of events and writing of articles etc. For their money each business receives a professionally built web page on the town’s leading website exposing them to tens of thousands of website visitors every year.

This sustainable business model has kept our sites live and current for many years whilst those relying on funding and/or the enthusiasm of amateurs have come and gone. We have no hidden motive and no personal agenda – it’s just good, honest business.

Alford.info Website Redesigns

Alford.info has had a few redesigns since 2001 and has seen the introduction of Responsive Web Design (websites that can display on small screen devices like the iPhone), Content Management Systems (where pages are built on demand by pulling the content from a database and inserting it into a template), Secure Certificates (encrypting the communications between the web server and your device) and much more.

Initially it had to squeeze data through slow dial-up connections before enjoying the luxury of high speed broadband only to see mobile users starting to browse the web on slower connections making speed a priority once more.

We have also witnessed the rise – and seemingly now the beginning of the fall – of Social Media which presented both an opportunity and challenge for small local businesses.

In 2018 MGC Websites Ltd acquired Bowhunter Websites and it’s assets including the Alford website which received a quick tidy up to keep it going through 2018. In May 2019 the site was relaunched running on a highly modified Content Management System to make it more feature rich and more efficient to update than any of it’s predecessors.