About this site

To improve communication to and from ABBA members and executive.
To provide a central repository for ABBA literature, including bylaws, inspection criteria, newsletters, meeting minutes, membership list, etc.
To provide an easy-to-use way for potential new members to find out what ABBA is all about.
To provide a method for the general public to find out which B & Bs are ABBA members in good standing.
To work in partnership with commercial on-line B & B guides to provide "basic" information on our member B & Bs (it is not our intention to compete with these on-line services, but to supplement their offerings).

The domain name (bbalberta.com) costs $35 Canadian per year. We register the domain annually.
The Internet provider costs about $250 Canadian per year.
The webmaster, Rick Hawkes, charges $5.00 per B&B to create, maintain, troubleshoot and enhance the B&B pages. There is a minimal charge of $10.00 for each page, other than B&B pages.

The ABBA website runs on a Windows 2000 server.
Active Server Pages are used throughout the website. This means that for nearly every page, a database is consulted and data is drawn from it to build the web page. This is leading edge technology, and allows incredible flexibility and scalability.
The database is an SQL database, which runs on SQL server. This software is extremely robust and able to handle as much traffic as we can throw at the site without crashing.