When we first built BuildingWebApps.com, it was a dedicated application. As we’ve mentioned previously, we’ve since rewritten it as a multi-tenant application, in support of our new business, Webvanta.

We’re pleased to announce that the second site on the platform is now live: Spartina.com is a “knowledge base for entrepreneurs ready to turn their ideas into great Internet businesses.”

You’ll see some visual design similarities to BuildingWebApps, which are not due to any platform constraints but simply to the fact that the same designer created both designs and reused some elements for efficiency. The Webvanta platform enables each site to be completely re-skinned.

If you’re interested in creating your own knowledge base site on any topic, please send us a message and we’ll get in touch.

It’s been awfully quiet here on the blog, and as is often the case, that doesn’t mean we’ve been slacking—quite the contrary, we’ve been nose-to-the-grindstone.

Since our last post here, we’ve been busy:

• We’ve renamed our company to Webvanta Inc. (formerly Collective Knowledge Works, Inc.).
• We’ve refocused our business plan for the hosted web service we’re building to serve web designers, rather than small businesses. You can read the teaser at webvanta.com
• We’ve just launched the second information portal built on our platform, Spartina.com. It’s an information resource for entrepreneurs building Internet-based businesses, which we’ve built for David Hehman, a Webvanta investor and board member.
• We’ve been doing the rounds of Angel investor groups, as we put together our first serious financing round.
• While doing all that, we’ve managed to get out a couple more screencasts, including one on Deployment just released.

And, today we’re having our coming-out party, of sorts, at TechCrunch 50. We’re not one of the 50 companies that will be on stage, but we’ll be showing our stuff in the DemoPit.

If you’re a web designer who is intrigued by the idea of a more powerful, easier-to-use platform for building and deploying sophisticated web sites with no programming, head on over to Webvanta.com and sign up for our beta invitation list. We’re still in alpha testing now, but we plan to gradually open up to beta testers in the next two months.