A dawn of a new era for me with my website. WX5TVS.com has been my storm chasing website since February of 2002, 7 years ago. I have been trying to get DavidDrummond.com for quite some time now, and after much effort finally got it a couple weeks ago or so. It was a perfect time to switch to the new website design as well! I hope you guys like it! In the end, it’s a heck of a lot easier for the average person to remember. The old domain being my ham callsign only meant anything to hams and some chasers, so it was hard to remember for most folks.
I will retain wx5tvs.com/.net/.org since that is my ham callsign and I don’t want it to end up with porn on it so I have parked it on DavidDrummond.com for now.
Please update your favorites and any incoming links you might have to the new domain. With the new layout, some URLs have changed, but all of the content was brought over, so you should be able to find it through the menues. If not get in touch with me, I’ll point the way!
For those of you that have my personal email address, it will now foward to my new one, and when I reply to you, you will have it. Everyone else can still contact me through the forms on the website. I don’t want to put it on here to help cut out the spam.
Future plans for the site including, most importantly, getting all the past chase logs back up WITH VIDEO! as well as a few more tweaks here and there.
The new iMap tracker for the LIVE ChaseCam should be ready very soon and that will appear on the site as well.
After them main chase season I am hoping to get a few choice prints available for purchase, as well as (gasp!) my very first storm chasing DVD!
If you are a chaser and are linking to my site, please update your links, and if I am not linking back to you, let me know and I will get you in there! So much to keep up with!
I’m open to suggestions as to what else you guys might want to see. Please leave comments below!
Tags: david drummond, new website, wx5tvs
The litmus test for me as to whether or not I like the design of a web page is when I stare at the text for a minute or so on my LCD screen and then look away. If there is an after image on my retina it really bugs me. For this page: so far, so good.
Is it possible to have the main menu side bar on the blog page?
Am looking forward to the restoration of the archive chases!
Chris, most of the important links back to the main site are already in the sidebar here on the blog!
My wife: “Can you fetch me a tin of beans, please?”
Me (after looking in the cupboard for 1 full minute): “Where are they?”
Wife: “In front of your face.”
Me: “Oh yeah.”
Nicely done!! Definitely tons better than the previous format. A ton of great information and easy to find….easy on the eyes too!