I got a couple of holiday units at brooms head.  I’m trying to make it easier for people to find out info and to get in contact with me to book.  For now its just a basic web site with:

• photos 
• contact info
• things to do at brooms head & surrounding areas

I also found this cool slide show thingy from picasa which I added.  Its pretty cool, I was after a free image rotator and I already use picasa for all my brooms head photo albumn, so it was a match made in heaven.  I would like to see some extra customisation, for example not displaying my name, but for free its awesome and it works on all browsers… that I care about.  Hosting is with webhost4life which have been really good so far, and reasonably priced.  Its my first .net hosting company I’ve gone with and it all self controlled within a cool online control panel.

The css design is a template by bryant smith, a web designer in Florida.  I liked it immediately, great colours and simple design.  The content was written by my dad, and the brooms head photos were partly taken by me and Dad.

I hope in other releases to sex the site up a bit:

• Public calendar for people to check availability online
• A simple 1 page booking fee (as minimal and easy as possible)
• Hook up to online secure payment gateway
• Web admin to add bookings via phone (for multiple people)
• Web admin to enter bills I receive or my dad does (he lives close).  I’m hoping I can use the freshbooks API to do this, but will need to look into it.
• Web admin setup email templates to make it easier for me or other admins to reply to emails.
• Setup Subversion & automated testing with mozy backup
• Pretty up the design

I’d be pretty happy if I get all this done, but this is a big investment on time….wish me luck!