Laurie - things to do/ decide still
Essential - then I can start promoting it as finished
Not essential, but will make the site work better ( in approx order of importance)
LATEST THINGS
Peter STILL TO DO DONE
Lauries Inputs:
Point 1
Web pages titles - maybe outline as below to make it easy or logic when people search for information. The page on “ OurStories” is were probably we can put our community project stories, staff stories, testimonials from visitors etc…
Laurie, I talked to my son in law who is an expert in websites and he says the INFO page is a great idea, with images for links, and keep most of the other pages hidden. SIMPLE. Does, the title info make sense to you? it does to Australians. Part, it is easy to change it to about if you prefer.
LAURIE MENU. PETER MENU
• Home HOME. Visible
• About. INFO. Visible
• To Reach Us. TO REACH US. Not Visible
• Stay With Us STAY WITH US now visible
• What To Do WHAT TO DO just covers other activities. Surfing, fishing and diving have own pages. Big topics. Not visible
• Our Stories ALL ABOUT KAGATA. Not visible.
• Contact CONTACT Visible
Point 2
As you highlighted “ Kagata Surfing Frens” is a network of friends who get connected to each other and share hospitality and environment that we are living on it. But then they have option to stay at Kagata Village or Vavaghio before go surfing or fishing HOW GIVE THAT OPTION? When people enquire, you ask them? OPTION ON STAY WITH US FORM?
Point 3
Maybe instead of putting out the packages LIKE DANCE PERFORMANCE? on the contact or enquiry page, we can leave that out first as I need to revist these activities and will try work out a package for them. At the moment let just sell Surfing or fishing , which we integrated it into other small activities like sightseeing, island visit or village visits if waves are not good.
Point 4
• I was not able to retrieved this address back [email protected] , if you can help me get it back would be great otherwise wil have to register a new address but similar to kagatasurfingfrens or otherwise we can use [email protected] I CAN HELP
• Vavaghio address that am accessing is [email protected] . You can add it with Vavaghio infor OK
Point 5
Donation or volunteer help is a great idea, maybe you can put it somewhere. I WILL
And that’s the next thing with regards to payment ?do you recommend the visitors pay to the Solomon Accoutwhere Mark & Bob look after or we wire it to our local account in Solomon Islands. Am talking about method of payment. LAURIE, YOU SHOULD WORK THIS OUT WITH MARK
Point 6
• I have attached information sheet, probably you can in cooperate it someone inside the website. I CAN DO THAT it needs revising. No longer Sol Surf Village home stay? The punctuation is strange and needs fixing. Are all the points still accurate?
• Photos? Maybe at least 6 or 7 photos on an information page would be great, but yest the youtubes are great. Thanks for that.
DRONE SHOT.
Essential - then I can start promoting it as finished
- Update the information on the sites listed below so your new site can be found.
- Kagata Village Frens other site - we need to retire it, by sending email to the lady at epodcentral and ask her to retire the old site.
- send message to Trisha Dwyer to change Google maps info to be headed Kagata Surfing Frens. Also send her the information in your Word document to add to the Map reference.
- How much promotion do you want? FISHING I will do this promotion in Facebook fishing groups
Not essential, but will make the site work better ( in approx order of importance)
- What email address do you want to use? I think [email protected] is best. Reactivate it by resetting password I have set it as [email protected] Currently using [email protected]
- Vavaghio Facebook page link goes to solomonsurf.com. This is good. Vavaghio have brand recognition. Also change email to this one? [email protected] OR get the admin of that site to redirect mail to your email address.
- kagata solsurf? what to do with that? retire it? Don't confuse people with different identities? need to change it to Kagata surfing Frens or Kagata village frens. Google Maps, and also other places you have used it. Laurie, contact Trisha Dwyer to change google map pin to Kagata surfing frens.
- I think we should include more on the projects and help given to the surrounding communities. eg school, health, solar, etc. Maybe a short piece about the problem of logging and your fight to save the area.
- write up for the All about Kagata page what specific benefits / projects are there as a direct result of ecotourism? Some of that is already there.
- update visit Solomon’s info for Kagata surfing Frens and Vavaghio guest house. Leave this for now until we have everything ready. See list below for other sites to send info to (Google search results links) Peter create package of text, links, pics.
- Include Vavaghio on this site more prominently. DONE Does The Solomon surf.com website need updating? Who does this? Gary’s daughter
- do you get the mail from [email protected] ? That is the address that Web sends people to
- other village stays?
- what protein can be provided for vegans? e.g. chick peas, cannellini beans, red kidney beans, butter beans, peanut butter, lentils, nuts, oatmeal, protein powder This needs to be looked at as my son may be coming in November and is a vegan. Others will come too.
- ON the 'Stay with us form, would you like an option for Kagata or Vavaghio? Or keep them separate?
- Google search for surf in Solomon Islands in order of appearance
- https://www.visitsolomons.com.sb/things-to-do/surfing/ Update info
- https://www.surftheearth.com.au/solomon-islands Update info
- https://www.perfectwavetravel.com/au/solomon-islands-surf-guide/ Poor website, links inactive
- https://www.flysolomons.com/destination-guide/surf get added to this page
- https://surfaid.org/surfaid/posts/10-best-surf-spots-in-solomon-islands they help with health and may be a resource for you to tap into
- https://nomadsurfers.com/surfing-in-solomon-islands/ mentions Vavaghio and its breaks
- https://www.solomonislandssurf.com/ has info on Kagata and Vavaghio, Kagata price needs updating (contact for price)like Vavaghio
- https://luxesurfstyle.com/category/solomon-islands/ get added to their list of destinations?
- https://www.abroadonaboard.com/surfing-the-solomon-islands/ may not be a safe internet site. no links to Vavaghio though mentioned.
- https://www.surftheearth.com.au/kagata-village needs updating there is a page for Vavaghio also. It looks like they take a % ?
- https://www.stokedfortravel.com/solomon-islands-surf-guide/#Top_Surf_Spots Good site send links to your websites
- https://www.eos.surf/encyclopedia/solomon-islands Useless
- https://www.surfline.com/surf-reports-forecasts-cams-map/@-7.429000004551526,158.3185,11z Just surf reports
- https://southpacificislands.travel/surfing-solomon-islands/ Not very informative
- https://surfing-waves.com/atlas/australasia_pacific/pacific_islands/solomon_islands.html Wave spots map
- https://totalsurfcamp.com/ Allows you to book
LATEST THINGS
- check each page of website
- Saturday boat trips - personnel and payment
- all contact websites updated with latest
- change facebook group About?
- family bio's?
- extend the network? get spotters fee? Kia guesthouse? Ritamala? Village near airport?
- New Guinea surfer limit www.sapng.com/sample-page/
- Nature Conservancy
- Logging?
- stored boards?
- Culture trips?
Peter STILL TO DO DONE
- VAVAGHIO ACCORDION
- check gallery for good images for other pages then delete
- check page structure
- Fix what to do page
- link the surf and fishing and diving to what to do page
- fix when Laurie’s feedback comes.
- integrate other pages on Facebook
- put stay with us form on stay page and simplify.DONE but needs formatting. Option for Kagata or Vavaghio?
- ensure mobile view is right
- YOUTUBE CHANNEL UPDATE. - ABOODY?
- add donate or volunteer button
- delete x button off home page
- can use [email protected]
• Vavaghio address that am accessing is [email protected] . How does mail get to that address?
Lauries Inputs:
Point 1
Web pages titles - maybe outline as below to make it easy or logic when people search for information. The page on “ OurStories” is were probably we can put our community project stories, staff stories, testimonials from visitors etc…
Laurie, I talked to my son in law who is an expert in websites and he says the INFO page is a great idea, with images for links, and keep most of the other pages hidden. SIMPLE. Does, the title info make sense to you? it does to Australians. Part, it is easy to change it to about if you prefer.
LAURIE MENU. PETER MENU
• Home HOME. Visible
• About. INFO. Visible
• To Reach Us. TO REACH US. Not Visible
• Stay With Us STAY WITH US now visible
• What To Do WHAT TO DO just covers other activities. Surfing, fishing and diving have own pages. Big topics. Not visible
• Our Stories ALL ABOUT KAGATA. Not visible.
• Contact CONTACT Visible
Point 2
As you highlighted “ Kagata Surfing Frens” is a network of friends who get connected to each other and share hospitality and environment that we are living on it. But then they have option to stay at Kagata Village or Vavaghio before go surfing or fishing HOW GIVE THAT OPTION? When people enquire, you ask them? OPTION ON STAY WITH US FORM?
Point 3
Maybe instead of putting out the packages LIKE DANCE PERFORMANCE? on the contact or enquiry page, we can leave that out first as I need to revist these activities and will try work out a package for them. At the moment let just sell Surfing or fishing , which we integrated it into other small activities like sightseeing, island visit or village visits if waves are not good.
Point 4
• I was not able to retrieved this address back [email protected] , if you can help me get it back would be great otherwise wil have to register a new address but similar to kagatasurfingfrens or otherwise we can use [email protected] I CAN HELP
• Vavaghio address that am accessing is [email protected] . You can add it with Vavaghio infor OK
Point 5
Donation or volunteer help is a great idea, maybe you can put it somewhere. I WILL
And that’s the next thing with regards to payment ?do you recommend the visitors pay to the Solomon Accoutwhere Mark & Bob look after or we wire it to our local account in Solomon Islands. Am talking about method of payment. LAURIE, YOU SHOULD WORK THIS OUT WITH MARK
Point 6
• I have attached information sheet, probably you can in cooperate it someone inside the website. I CAN DO THAT it needs revising. No longer Sol Surf Village home stay? The punctuation is strange and needs fixing. Are all the points still accurate?
• Photos? Maybe at least 6 or 7 photos on an information page would be great, but yest the youtubes are great. Thanks for that.
- Paris ideas
- messaging confusing kagatasurfing frens v solomon island stays.
- Kagata village frens what is it? simple brand come stay with us. set in the beautiful sols, established by laurie on trad island. special about people, land, vibe, write in Lauris voice. Him approve and edit.
- Photos should be main focus
- too much text on main page?
- key selling points something special untouched leave no footprints,
- family on the website
- step off the map
DRONE SHOT.
