Website Content - Make it interesting!

Have you thought about the content you will be posting to your overland website?
In this blog post, I provide my thoughts on overland website content and provide a few examples of websites which I think work well.  This compliments the website tools article and the audio podcast recorded in 2011.

One of the benefits that I have managing the The Africa Overland Network is that I get to see a lot of website design and especially the type of content generated.

Here are a few thoughts that I have on content:

Who is your audience?
Is it your family and direct friends or are you aiming on reaching the broader audience?

Are you planning on sharing information to the current or future independent overlander?

If it is, consider the following information:

• Organise your journal per country, per date, which makes it easy to find specific country information
• Categorise your preparation phase into topics like vehicle, paperwork, finances, medical etc
• Detail your route information with maps, route planning and if possible GPS track logs. Consider supplying GPS logs to Tracks4Africa

Dynamic Content

Independent Overland websites exist - fact.   On each of these sites, content is added yet my issue is that the content is often lost, forgotten, outdated which, as a result, we loose.
This impacts the historical aspect of overland travel.

This blog aims to add overland updates that don't feature RSS feeds. i.e they use standard email distribution to add content.

More later...