This week saw a flurry of web dev activity as I went back to the drawing board for version 6.0 of TheScubaGeek.com. Version 5.0+ (released early summer 2009) has served me well, but admittedly I’ve had issues with the certain aspects of the layout. The page navigation on the top menu never quite vibed with me, older articles were hard to find, my content was unbalanced relative to my top-tier categories, and the ad section was rendered all but useless by Firefox’s awesome plugin Adblock Plus (which, if you don’t already have it, get it now). And don’t even get me started on the right-aligned misfire of Version 5.0 or the current left-align format of Version 5.5. I wanted the » read more «

Florida to Georgia to Alabama to Mississippi back to Alabama to Tennessee to Georgia to South Carolina to North Carolina. Whew! I’ve been away from Roatan for just over three weeks and my head is still spinning! I’ve taken very little time to write about my ridiculous misadventures in the meantime… I’ll do my best to hammer out some of the more amusing episodes from my trip in the next days, but for now I think my tired eyes are about squirt blood all over my Mac. Why? Because I’ve also been busy cranking out three new websites for Roatan:

Click here to explore a map of the Utila’s dive sites! Now you can explore the dive sites around Utila too! During my last vacation to Roatan’s sister island, I took the time to document the island’s dive sites in the TIREngine database. The result? A beautiful, Google Maps-powered interactive map. Zoom in on high resolution satellite imagery of the dive sites surrounding Utila. Click on any site to learn more information, or use the drop-down box above the pull up a full dive site description. Thanks to Alton’s Dive Center in Utila for helping me name and locate the dive sites! To other Utila dive shops and instructors: am I missing some dive sites? Do you have more information » read more «

Click here to explore a map of the Roatan Marine Park dive sites! I’ve been developing the new website for the Roatan Marine Park (coming soon to http://www.roatanmarinepark.com), and a big part of the site is the interactive map of all the dive sites around Roatan. Explore the dive sites around Roatan! Powered by Google maps and TIREngine, you can zoom in on beautiful satellite imagery of the dive sites surrounding Roatan’s incredible coral reef system. Click on any site to learn more information, or use the drop-down box above the pull up a full dive site description. Have you seen some lionfish? Know of a damaged or missing dive site mooring? The map is integrated with the Roatan Marine » read more «