We are designing a website around information for fishing in michigan. The majority of the site will be similar in nature to www.fishexplorer.com. We like the way most of it functions and several of the navigational pages will be similar. But we would like to improve the layout and add features. The core of the site will revole around the map section that will contain maps of the lakes in michigan. There are 11,000 lakes in michigan. we expect to start with about 2500. most of the maps we will use are available free from the michigan government. we like the google maps as the main map and would like to add maps from topo (we have permission). we will need to be able to edit each lake page, adding details, information, advertisers specific to each lake, ect. We want to be able to add the details and info ourselves but need someone to design the framework for us to work in. We want to add a map feature like this one -[login to view URL] clik on one of the listed map numbers and take a look at that viewer. These map file are available for free but we need to be able to use a view like this.
I have only a little bit of experience with web design, though I do have experience with photoshop. I'm currenlty taking courses in web design using dreamweaver and would like to add some of my own graphics to the framwork that you create in the future.
Communication is a must as we take this site from concept to reality. You may need to hold our hand a little as we learn to edit and add info the site.
Looking for potential long term relationship as we further develop this idea and build other projects we have.