My story, "Ten Cool Pools" will be in tomorrow's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I got advance copies in the mail today. It looks good, especially the professional photos the resorts allowed me to use.
It turns out having a waterpark, lazy river pool, or gigantic waterslide is a trend in hotels that want to attract families.
Although a hotel like the Great Wolf Lodge (Williamsburg, Virginia, and a future location near Atlanta) may look expensive at first, once you factor in what it would cost to take the kids to a waterpark for 1 - 2 days, it's quite a deal!
The cool pools seem to concentrate in tourist destinations like Orlando or along the beaches, and with summer travel slumping this year, they may be offering better deals than the economy hotels.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
New Site Format complete
Hooray! I've successfully switched my site over to the new format, and added a few more pages to boot.
Total number of pages = 18.
I'm including some "sidebar" as a separate page for nearly every city. That's always the part of printed guidebooks that draws my attention.
For Destin, there's a box to click on the Parks of the Emerald Coast.
For Birmingham, it's the city's Civil Rights sites.
For Chattanooga, it's the Cherokee sites.
For Meridian, it's ghost stories of Meridian.
So when you browse around www.Sweet-Tea-Travels.com, look for these. Hopefully you'll find them as interesting to read as I did to write.
Total number of pages = 18.
I'm including some "sidebar" as a separate page for nearly every city. That's always the part of printed guidebooks that draws my attention.
For Destin, there's a box to click on the Parks of the Emerald Coast.
For Birmingham, it's the city's Civil Rights sites.
For Chattanooga, it's the Cherokee sites.
For Meridian, it's ghost stories of Meridian.
So when you browse around www.Sweet-Tea-Travels.com, look for these. Hopefully you'll find them as interesting to read as I did to write.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Website page tally
Hot off the press at www.sweet-tea-travels.com
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham's Civil Rights Sites
Huntsville
Total number of pages in good working order: 11
Hooray!
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham's Civil Rights Sites
Huntsville
Total number of pages in good working order: 11
Hooray!
Site Construction
Now I know I'm crazy.
Most people undertake a travel guide website like www.sweet-tea-travels.com with a staff and large budget. I have me, myself, and I... and the cocker spaniel at my feet.
I've spent the last 2 weeks as if cramming for a test, learning all I can about FrontPage and writing for the web and keywords and google ads and all that goes along with putting up a website.
Hugely time consuming. I spent a good 10 hours at the computer yesterday trying to get the site into its final form.
FrontPage's help is no help, but luckily a blogger out there (http://www.erikvossman.com/) can speak real language for non-programmers. (Thanks, Erik!)
So after 10 hours yesterday, I've got my home, about us, blog, and the state pages up. but somehow the about us button isn't showing right....
Sigh
There's always something to fix.
Most people undertake a travel guide website like www.sweet-tea-travels.com with a staff and large budget. I have me, myself, and I... and the cocker spaniel at my feet.
I've spent the last 2 weeks as if cramming for a test, learning all I can about FrontPage and writing for the web and keywords and google ads and all that goes along with putting up a website.
Hugely time consuming. I spent a good 10 hours at the computer yesterday trying to get the site into its final form.
FrontPage's help is no help, but luckily a blogger out there (http://www.erikvossman.com/) can speak real language for non-programmers. (Thanks, Erik!)
So after 10 hours yesterday, I've got my home, about us, blog, and the state pages up. but somehow the about us button isn't showing right....
Sigh
There's always something to fix.
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