dale#1 1 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Looks good This part is interesting, how often will that be updated? Current popular maps: Niseko close-up Hakuba Map of Japan Shiga Kogen Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I like the front page - new resort reports to read. Mobile functionality's nice too. Excellent Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted November 1, 2006 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted November 1, 2006 Glad you like it. We'll be announcing our Photos Contests next week. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Photo Contests with an s sounds good Nice new index page Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan.Com#2 0 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 We'll try and update the "popular maps" info on the main page every week. It will be interesting to see which of the map pages are getting the most traffic. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Nice updates to the site, been checking them out the last few days. Really done a lot, obviously it must have taken a lot of effort. (How long?) Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted November 8, 2006 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted November 8, 2006 Thank you. We started discussing what to do in late April and started initial work on the redeveloped Photos section around mid-May. From then through until mid-October there have been 2 programmers (sometimes 3), 2 designers (one making maps for the Maps section), myself and another colleague involved in getting it all together. We kept on adding to the specs and modifying things as we were doing it to make everything as good as it can be - all of these things take time of course. Maybe surprising, layout and the presentation of things takes almost as long as development of the actual functionality. We are still making changes and updates to other sections of the site (visit some pages and you might see some changes) and there is still a programmer and designer on the project making updates. As well as all that we have other things to do - like updating the resort database which is a big job in itself and a few other things that will be online in the next few weeks. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Otsukaresama, you guys really did a fabulous job. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Moderator SnowJapan.Com#4 5 Posted November 16, 2006 SnowJapan Moderator Share Posted November 16, 2006 New addition, "Niseko Guide": NISEKO GUIDE: Information on Niseko area (look out for more "town guides" coming soon): http://www.snowjapan.com/e/niseko-guide Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Moderator SnowJapan.Com#4 5 Posted November 23, 2006 SnowJapan Moderator Share Posted November 23, 2006 New addition, "Hakuba Guide": HAKUBA GUIDE: Information on Hakuba area (look out for more "town guides" coming soon): http://www.snowjapan.com/e/hakuba-guide Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan#Andrew 6 Posted November 29, 2006 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted November 29, 2006 Our own Now reports are starting to kick into daily mode now as the season starts, or at leasts quickly approaches! They can of course be found here: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/now.php From this afternoon our weather forecasts and snow depth info data for the majority of ski resorts around Japan is also now up and running. It will take a day or two to fix everything up and make sure it is all working properly, so please bear with us as we see to that. Once up and running the weekly weather forecast is updated every 3 hours, while snow depth information is updated once a day. Please note that, unlike our Now! reporting, Snow Japan does not have any control over the weather data and snow depth data. The weather data is provided by a reputable major Japanese weather forecasting company, whilst the snow depth data is ultimately being provided by the ski resorts themselves. For more information about our weather reporting, please check this page: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/aboutweather.html Anyway, a recap of what is available: WEATHER DATA ON RESORT PAGES http://www.snowjapan.com/e/resorts/resortdetail.php?resid=1 On most of the Resort pages of Snow Japan you will find the weekly weather forecast for the resorts - see the above example. RESORT WATCH: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/resort-watch.php Find out snow depths at resorts around Japan MY RESORT WATCH: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/my_resort_watch.php Customizable version of the above - create your own page that lists only the resorts you are interested in. MOST SNOW CHART: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsSnowDepth.php This page shows the resorts with the most snow on their slopes. MOST NEW SNOWFALL CHART: http://www.snowjapan.com/e/daily/A_TO_Z_ResortsComYesterday.php This page shows the resorts that have received the most new snow since the previous day. Links to those charts are available at the top of the Forum pages. Link to post Share on other sites
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