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The new look of BeachHunter.net

BeachHunter’s Florida Beaches Website Takes on a New Look

I’ve been working hard to make BeachHunter.net more user-friendly with better drop-down menu navigation and more consistent design throughout. It is still a work in progress. I’ve also tried to make it more visually appealing. Since BeachHunter first went online in 2005, more than three million people have visited the site while planning their beach […]

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Twitter: Less Time, more Benefit–with Paper.li

If you’re like me, you started out spending a lot of time on Twitter, mostly trying to figure out how to use it effectively. You’ve probably been using Hootsuite or Tweetdeck or some other productivity tool. Then you realized Twitter was sucking up your life. So you decided to limit your time on Twitter. Unfortunately […]

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Joel Hendrix came to Manatee County in 1871.

Excerpts from a Florida Pioneer Journal

I’ve been helping my dad out with a book about our family history, so I do some research on the internet now and then. Recently I came across a journal written by some of my distant relatives of their journey by wagon from Alabama to Florida. It is so interesting I thought I’d share a […]

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Beach Web Sites and Blogs Screencast 1

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. I discovered this great online tool called “screenr” at www.screener.com that allows me to quickly and easily record a screencast. So I thought I’d try it out by sharing some of my favorite beach web sites with you. In this screencast I show you 5 of my favorite web […]

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