Welcome to the New and Improved SurfingSanDiego.com We are very excited to present you with a new design and new community tools to help surfers and give them more opportunity to interact.

When we started this process, it was important that we accomplish the following:

• First and Foremost was the objective to keep everything on the website FREE to the surfer. This website was founded as a resource for surfers who are experienced or just starting out.  Throughout the process, we asked ourselves if we were keeping in line with the overall objective of the original developer of the website.  We hope you will feel that we have accomplished this in the re-design of the website.
• Secondly,although we needed to have the website generate income, we wanted to make sure that the advertising banners on the website did not get in the way of the surfers experience. The main way to achieve this was to include any advertising in the header of the website. When we looked at the other surfing websites, we realized that advertising is integrated into every possible area of the website. This takes away from the overall experience and so we have limited advertising through out the website.
• Third, when we started the redesign process, we also wanted to make sure that we give the website an updated feel, but not lose the atmosphere of the website. So as you can see, even though we created a new logo, we kept the existing colors of the current website.
• Lastly, in our redesign process, we wanted to add more tools to allow surfers to share experiences, and provide a platform to buy, sell and trade surfing products and accessories. To accomplish this we have integrated the following new tools to the website:
  • An Upgraded Forum – The new forum is the most up to date forum offered by the forum software developer and this moves us to a more stable database which will reduce the downtime of the forum moving forward and allow us to grow in the future.
  • A Photo Gallery – A picture is worth a 1000 words and with the advent of high quality pictures being taken on your phone, every one has pictures of their surf trips and experiences. Users can now upload and share their own photos to the website.
  • A Video Gallery – Can you say YouTube for surfing? Give it time, but I am sure that in very short order, we will have a collection of videos to rival any surfing website.
  • A Classifieds Section – Our classifieds section is a direct result of members using the forum to buy, sell and trade surf items. The forum was not exactly craigslist, so now there is a platform to allow surfers to look for and find what they need.
  • Lastly, we have also integrated an E-Zine to give people a platform to write about surfing. We have launched the E-Zine with our first columnist Jeff Kinney (A.K.A….. JK) and will be adding more columnists over the coming months. In addition, we will have a section of the E-Zine for any member who would like to submit articles for other surfers to read.  Anyone who may be interested in writing articles, please contact us at info@surfingsandiego.com

  Well, everyone, I hope you like what you see, enjoy the new tools, and read JK’s inaugural article. As is always the case when you launch a new website, please let us know if you find any broken links or if something isn’t working. We are sure that even after our beta testing, there may be some bugs, so if you find any, please email us info@surfingsandiego.com

  Happy Holidays to all and we will see you on the waves.
  Your Surfing San Diego Team