Website w/ reviews of storm chasing tours

[ChristofferB]

Hi,

This may not apply for many of you guys who are experienced storm chasers but when I went on my first storm chasing tour this summer (absolutely amazing!) I missed having a site where you could get a good overview with ratings, reviews etc of the different tours.

Since I make a lot of websites I decided to make a website like this that I hope to be useful for tourists going on their first storm chasing tour.

The website is: www.stormchasingusa.com - I would love if you had any comments about the structure, info etc.

If you could post a link to it from your blog or website, I would also be most happy!

Take care everyone, it was cool being a part of your community this summer!

Christoffer (from Sweden)

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Hi Chris, welcome to the forums.

We do see people from time to time coming on here asking about tours and which ones to go on, so I think your site is a great resource for people looking for a tour group.

 

[Stuart Wilson]

Nice idea Christoffer. I'll post a review shortly

 

[Stuart Wilson]

Hi Christoffer

Have posted my review. Just a couple of comments:-

I pasted my text from an e-mail I sent after my tour - your text field doesn't like some of the codes (sorry!).

Also - the last field that just said what is 2+2 confused me for a bit until I realised it was one of those anti-spam measures. You could make it a bit clearer.

Otherwise, nice work. Hopefully will become a useful resource

 

[ChristofferB]

Stuart,

Thanks for a very informative review! I agree with you on a lot of things. Have you tried any other tours as well?

 

[Stuart Wilson]

No that was my first and only organised tour. My mate went with Tradd some 10 years ago (or maybe a bit more?). I can't/won't comment about them as I didn't directly experience it.

 

[Lanny Dean]

Christoffer,
some of my clients are telling me that they have tried to post a review but after doing so the review screen goes away? (not sure what thats about) Have you received any of those reviews?

 

[ChristofferB]

Hey Lanny,

I will look into why the screen blanks out but I have received the reviews, they have been in "pre-acceptance" state until I've read them. Will approve them tonight...

You seem to have a joker friend named Jimbo

 

[ChristofferB]

Updated:

Fixed a few things:

- A few bugs probably causing the review registration to look funny after submission. All reviews seem to have been registered though.
- An Internet explorer bug that made the entire website look very weird (sorry about that)
- The need to provide a valid email address.

Jimmy Ferdezki & Jason Foster, if you read this. Please PM me!

 

[ChristofferB]

I have gotten some good feedback of what you should check with the tour company before booking. I would love to hear more from you. Especially from those of you who have had some sort of problems during your trip, you can PM me.

 

[Lanny Dean]

Christoffer, great job on getting everything up and fixed. Thank you.
Site looks very very good.

 

[Johnathan Brouwer]

Christoffer, do you plan on keeping this updated over the off-season?

 

[Larry J. Kosch]

Typo in Cloud 9 chase dates

Just sent a IM message to ChristofferB regarding the date typo for Cloud 9 chases. The second date in the line "Tour #3 14 days 2800 05/29/10 05/13/10" should have been 06/13/10. Otherwise people will think they are going on a "Back To The Future" chase!