The number one objective for Maldives Complete has always been “completeness”, but the number two has always been ease of use. Providing the easiest route to the information people need has been the design point which is why I have shunned advertisements, sponsorship and other non-essential dross that clutters so many resort and travel pages. In recent days, I’ve finally finished off the bulk of enhancements that have been on my wish list since my summer tour.
My Maldives tours not only inspire ‘Best Of’ pieces and help complete the profiles with data and pictures, but they also percolate ideas for new features and enhancements to the site. I meet with lots of site fans and industry folks and they provide lots of great ideas of how I might be able to improve it further. Of course, digesting all of the research as well as doing my day job means that these ideas don’t get done over night, but over the past few months, I have implemented a good number of changes that germinated about of Tour 4…
- Best Of – 2 new pages with added drop down menu…
- Activity – eg. Sport, Kids, Culture
- Infrastructure – eg. Lodging, Pool, Decoration
- Service – eg. Dining, Drink, Greeting
- Ambience – eg. Nationality, Spa, Ocean
- Commercial – eg. Pricing, Shopping, Online
- ·Room Type – A flurry of research to update and complete more of the field
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – Still people struggle to find the site and so I am spending a bit more time making the site search engine friendly (if you are a fan of the site, the one thing you can do to help – and others – is to provide a link to the site from any websites you have…thanks).
- Better descriptions
- Better titles
- Better metatags
- Profile – I’ve added a couple more pieces to each profile
- Best Ofs – changed list to “Tooltip” popup to accommodate some of the extra long lists
- Activities
- Surfing
- Marine Biologist
- Hotelier Group
- Walkway Rating – ie. Soft, Hard, Paved