This is Roatan (TiR) is the visionary project by professional website developer and scuba diving instructor Steve Craig, aka TheScubaGeek. The goal of TiR is to promote tourism and support local businesses on the Caribbean island of Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras through online marketing. TiR aims to be Roatan’s premier information service for travel, living, and island news. The site combines a clean modern design, advanced web technologies, and the power of Google Maps to present the beauty of Roatan to the outside world as never before seen. The Story of TiR Steve was sick of computer programming. After wrapping up his Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Steve sold most of his belongings, packed his bags, and » read more «

The new layout for TheScubaGeek.com is live! Woo-hoo! There’s still some kinks to work out around the site, so please bear with me as I make the tweaks, cuts, and snips necessary. I promise the end result will be worth it! Meanwhile, take a look around and let me know what you think!

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: