As I continue to do my own web site work, I am struggling with a great variety of issues. First and foremost is my lack of current skills with the tool sets. Back in the day, I had a pretty good grasp of Dreamweaver, but now, the latest and greatest versions with their multi-media integration, web 2.0 functionality and ability to scale from desktop to iPhone or Blackberry browse-ability have me frustrated. To wit, I am just going ahead and designing and publishing as I know how in the moment.
After a great meeting this morning with Dr. Patty Haugen, executive director of the St. Louis Audubon Center, I decided to do some rearranging. The new home page of Big Muddy Adventures will highlight the third component of the mission, stewardship.
What does BMA do in terms of stewardship? We clean up trash. We test water. We do presentations and teach and preach. We belong and participate in a number of watershed coalitions. Mostly, we bring others to see on reality’s terms how beautiful the rivers are. And when my time and talent catch up, I’ll have a web site that can produce something that my kids will find awesome and inspiring, like Will Steger Foundation’s Globalwarming101.com, with its “sick” Youth Action Video.
