Ideas and help on webpage

[Brian Gilpin]

Time has come to start designing the Kelp Divers website. I would appreciate ideas on how to design it and help in doing so. At this point the following seem like good ideas:

California photo albums

Picture of the week

Current dive conditions

Links to diving resources such as boats, shops, etc.

Interviews with California dive notables such as boat captains or leaders of professional organizations. Any roving reporters out there?

Monthly featured SB members

Group dive announcements

How about some other ideas.

 

[Burner]

something like:
http://www.mantaraydive.com/divecond.htm
except users can submit it and it will be updated real time.
Maybe you can click on Breakwater and see the last 5 reports on the dive.
Personally manta ray isn't updated frequently enough to be very useful.

Also for noobs if you put the site descriptions including how to enter, what routes to take, what you should look for etc.
Like for breakwater you could describe how you could dive the wall, how you could go to the metridian fields (maybe a seperate site), how to dive it at night (including what to look for), how to dive the center area, that you should avoid the area where the students are so you have better vis, etc. I know each diver has different things they like to try to do on each dive, and I think some of us might discover some new dives at old sites if people contribute to that. Also new people will have a better idea of what kind of dives they should do.

And a sealife ID page. Have a couple of pictures of all the different things we find, so if we saw something cool on a dive we can just pop up the site and know what it was.

 

[renpirate]

I think a real important resoruce would be a clickable map that displays links to dive locations along the North Coast. These links to dive locations would include pictures and descriptions of each location. There are several sites out there currently that have some descriptions, but most are very limited. Take a look at the following link. http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/USA_West/CalN/

 

[Bob3]

Don't forget the post-dive restaurants & watering holes.