Ice On The Lake

November 23,2007.
9:12 a m

As I look to the north on beautiful Berry Lake Wisconsin ,
I see the lake is completely frozen over.
It may not be thick but I can say Berry Lake is Frozen.

The reason for this posting is that Berry Lake Web site
has a contest to guess the day the lake freezes over.
I am not sure of the specifics of the contest but I want to
make sure someone does not get screwed out of a color
T V or what ever the grand prize is.
So the lake is frozen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P S , a side note, I did bring up to the "powers at be" that the home page of
the Berry Lake web site could use a face lift. It looks like a
home page for the
1) WEAC ,
2) WDNR ,
3) Diamond Jim Doyle ,
4) Vladamer Putins ,
5) Library Association workers ,
6) DNC ,
7) Clinton in 08,
8) Jeff Gordon's,
9) Jimmy Johnson's,
10) Steve Kagen's

My beef is when you open a home page,
you show off what your site is all about.
What reason do people have to go to the Berry Lake Web site.

If you are a weather channel site , you tell people about the weather, not about a parade in Wyoming.

If you are the Green Bay Packer site you talk about the Packers win on Thanksgiving day and not about a poetry class over in Amberg Wis.

If you are a site about Berry Lake Wisconsin, you talk about the ice on the lake this morning. You give thanks on Thanksgiving day for all the people who live on our lake and those that own properties on the lake and look forward to them having a great Turkey feast with their family's.

If you want to talk about how the taxpayers on the lake are getting taxed by all the grants and Wisconsin budgets going up, than find another site.

If your web site is a blog with no one able to comment , than go for it.

If you talk to any web designer, the home page is the first impressions. Now the web designer is not the problem , The designer is in a league of their own. An expert I recommend to any one looking for web site design. The web designer only does what the owners of the web site tells them.

I would like to know what the people who visit the site really want to see. How many people really want to see the site, and for what reason?
How about a counter on the home page to see how many hits the web site is getting!
How about a comment section on the front page so anyone who wants to comment can comment and everyone can read the comments!

Are we trying to hide the web site or hide the lake, if so , get rid of the web site.

Here are a couple of lake web sites.

St Germain Wis

Kelly Lake web site - this site is new. It may even look like a blog site but at least they are talking about their lake and their lake people. Not someone from Oconto Falls.

Anderson Lake B C

Fine, I do not want to complain ( I Am), but give a home page with a big picture of Berry Lake Wisconsin and where it is located and why I should visit the site again. Who won the first ice on lake contest. What the temperture on the lake, etc, etc, etc, KISS- Keep It Simple Stupid!!!!!! And then I would be happy!!!!!!! Put the garbage on a link .
Berry Lake Wis. Link