Simple search terms such as a city, zip, or restaurant name:
- Minneapolis
- 55408
- Evergreen Restaurant
- 2424 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
- 24th St and Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
- Paris, France
- 24 rue La Vieuville, Paris, France
VegGuide.Org is a project of Compassionate Action for Animals, a Twin Cities, Minnesota animal rights organization, in partnership with Mercy for Animals. The site was designed (such as it is) by Dave Rolsky. Dave also did the programming for the site, so you can blame him for all the bugs you find.
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The first version of VegGuide.Org went live in October of 2002 on either waste.org or ca4a.org (I just can't remember). However, at this time we didn't really announce the guide outside of a small circle of users in order to give it some beta testing.
In March of 2003, the site moved to its own domain, regveg.org (Regional Vegetarian Guide) and we started promoting it publically.
The design of the site saw various revisions until February of 2004 brought us what I consider to be VegGuide 1.0. Look at that lovely three-column design in purple, white, and black. Needless to say, this was a look that only a geek (like me) could love.
In March of 2004, the site moved to the vegguide.org domain, which we thought was more easily pronouncable and rememberable.
In April of 2005, we released what I consider to be VegGuide 2.0. This was a new color scheme and layout intended to be easier to use and easier on the eyes. Unfortunately, at the time I didn't really know a much of anything about UI design or usability, so it was still not the most intuitive or friendly UI.
On January 1 of 2008, we released VegGuide 3.0, the layout you're looking at now. Besides the new UI, there are various new features, and there was a lot of reworking of the underlying code that drives the site. I hope that this UI is more usable and intuitive.
XMission provides co-location and bandwidth.
Eric Waters provided our server.
S4 created the icons used for listings.
John Eckman contributed code for the Google Maps view of a listing, and Jo Tyler created the icons we use on the maps. John also contributed the rating star icons.
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