Experimenting with search

Of course one hugely important aspect will be the search optimisation. I'm also experimenting with Google searches and sitemaps to see whether I can get the site to come up in some searches.

You might be able to see the difference between the photo portal and snowmad is that snowmad has crawler friendly hyperlinks generated by the application whereas photo portal relied on asp.net link buttons.

I'll probably experiment with sitemaps to include an existing site for Total Register Machines Ltd (family connection!)

Another weekend's work

And another few hours spent experimenting. The latest is at: http://www.snowmad.co.uk/snowmad.htm This includes a whole bunch of resorts aligned to countries. The way these relationships work is a simple folder structure on the web server.

Flipperweb starts his web sites

This blog is the story of the birth of flipperweb sites.
For some time there has been the flipperweb photo portal at http://flipper.gotdns.com. This was the start and is also the foundation for my current work. http://www.snowmad.co.uk/snowmad.htm

SnowMAD will be the place to get info on anything to do with skiing and snowboarding.
As you can see it's not pretty, there's no real content and it's slow. It's hosted on an old laptop at home right now. The work has gone into converting the photo portal engine into a cms for snowmad. Also converting it to a css based site with xml and xsl transformations. Go look at Arabba in Italy on the site to see where it's going.

There are plans to allow members to upload reviews of gear and resorts also for members to post piste maps or resort maps too. They'll be forums and I'm looking into the idea of linking onto a holiday selling website too.

I plan to follow it up with a scuba related site too.