New Website Guide

Here is an outline of some of the major highlights and changes in the new web site.

• New menu/navigation system
  This is probably the first thing you may have noticed. The new site uses a dual menu system. The top menu bar now contains the major categories. Once you have entered a major category, the sidebar menu will contain subsections within that category. For example, the major section Trails has a sidebar menu of Feature, Reports, Ski Trails, Rollerski Trails. And within some of those sidebar sections, you'll find additional sections. Once you get the hang of it, we think you'll find this new system even faster and easier to navigate. Here are the new locations of some of the main sections from the old web site:
     Reports - now located in Trails
   Schools - now located in Racing
   Results - now located in Racing

• Enhanced text
  A number of locations on our site make use of style sheets. This fairly modern (introduced back in '97) addition to web pages allows us to have more control over the exact look of the text layout. If you aren't using Netscape 4.0 or higher, or Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher, you might consider upgrading. If you are using an older browser, the web site should still work fine, but some text attributes might not be quite as clean. If you have problems navigating with an older browser, please let us know!
• New Feature sections
  Many of the sections now start off with a new feature section where we try to highlight some topic/event.
• New Notices section
  The new notices section is our "catch all" for press releases, postings, job listings, etc.
• New Classifieds section
  The Gear section has a new subsection, Classifieds, for listing For Sale and Wanted items.
• New photo viewer
  When we posted a set of photos in the past, you'd have to labor back and forth between viewing an image and than going back and scrolling down to find the next image. The new web site introduces the skinnyski.com photo viewer. This little Javascript will bring up a separate window where can click through the images. In addition, there is a drop-down list of all the images in the photo set so you can quickly jump to the image you desire. And that drop-down list may also contain captions for the photos.
• Separate window for maps and photos
  Much like photo sets, when you viewed a map on the old site you had to click back and scroll down to find the trail listing again. Now we'll launch a separate window to view maps, external photos, and pretty much anytime you click on a little graphic icon.
• Disclaimers and Disclosure
  We've also add a general visitors agreement, a privacy statement, advertising information, and a general information page to the site. Please review these pages.