About AustinTex.com
AustinTex.com is an insider's guide to Austin, Texas created by long-time Austinite Sandy McCrory. Sandy first began to envision a website devoted to her hometown of Austin, Texas almost ten years ago when she purchased the domain name AustinTex.com. The site has undergone several incarnations since then as the Internet has grown and developed along with Sandy's web site design skills and understanding of Internet marketing.
The website designer for Ruta Maya International Headquarters and MetaCleanse Colon Cleanse, Sandy devotes as much of her spare time as possible to researching and creating content for her insider's guide to Austin, Texas.
AustinTex.com Insider's Guide to Austin has over fifty pages dedicated to what makes Austin, Texas special including maps and links for fun things to do in Austin, Austin events, Austin hotels, Austin motels, where to stay in Austin, cool places to shop in Austin, Austin music, downtown Austin, free things to do in Austin, Austin restaurants, Austin food, Austin sports, Austin art and more.
Entries on AustinTex.com include Austin web site and Austin map links and the website pages are designed to be as much like a book experience as possible so that, even if you think you already know Austin, as you scroll through different topics you will discover places, restaurants, activities and community resources that you had never known about or considered before.
If you are a visitor to Austin or thinking about Austin travel, AustinTex.com hopes to offer a easy to navigate overview of what Austin, Texas has to offer for Austin family vacations, conference attendees and Austin business travelers.
Sandy says, “Even though I thought I knew a lot about Austin after living here and being part of the community for almost thirty years, half the fun of working on the website has been finding out about places that were new to me. Sandy is particulary proud of the “Free Stuff Austin” and “Austin Community Resources” pages on the website.
A third generation Texan, Sandy grew up in Houston, Texas but says her only goal in high school was to move to Austin, which at that time in the mid-seventies was an oasis of cosmic cowboys and the Armadillo World Headquarters music scene. She attended the University of Texas for several years and went on to own several businesses and raise two sons in Austin.
With a degree in Computer Systems Management from St. Edward's University, Sandy most enjoys coding and writing content for websites, making AustinTex.com truly a labor of love. Sandy is also the owner of Sand Tiger Online Marketing, specializing in online press releases and integrated e-commerce promotion strategies.
For more information about AustinTex.com, Sandy can be contacted at McCrory at AustinTex dot com.
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Advertising on AustinTex.com
Most of the advertising on the AustinTex.com website is through the Google AdWords program and is designed to be an integrated part of the overall design of the website. Google AdWords places Austin advertising on the site based on the content of the specific page so that the ads seen by the user are determined by the topic of the page.
Banner ads for individual advertisers are also available on AustinTex.com at very reasonable and affordable rates.
For more information about advertising on AustinTex.com, contact Sandy McCrory at McCrory at AustinTex dot com.
PLEASE NOTE: The e-mail contact address above is spelled phonetically to counter the spam-bots responsible for the enormous amount of spam email now sent through the Internet. Simply replace "at" and "dot" with the correct symbol, make sure there are no spaces and send your message on its way. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Accessibility Statement
AustinTex.com is designed with web site accessiblity in mind. There are over 55 million Internet users in the United States alone with some type of disability. Web accessibilty means designing a website with the needs of all possible users in mind including those with vision or physical limitations as well as those that may be using older and slower computers and Internet technology.
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows using Internet Explorer, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
All pages on AustinTex.com define the following access keys:
Access Key 1: Home Page
Access Key 2: Skip to Main Content
Access Key 4: Search Box
Access Key 0: Accessibility Statement
In addition, AustinTex.com has a “Skip to Main Content” link accessible by using the tab key or to those using assistive software programs like screen readers.
More information about accessible websites is available at Knowbility.org, a non-proft organization based in Austin, Texas with a mission to support the independence of adults and children with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of Internet accessible information technology.