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This Maui website began in about 1985, as a hand-written list of things to see
and do on Maui, which I wrote for a friend who was going on his first trip to
Hawaii. After a couple years of updating that paper by hand and making Xerox
copies for friends, I typed it into an AppleWorks word processing program on an
Apple computer, and later moved it into Word on a PC. Friends told friends
about it, and for years I printed up copies from my home computer and mailed them to
anyone who was interested. But I didn't like being in the printing and
mailing business, so in the early 1990's I put that "Jon's Maui Info" paper onto
a web page on America Online. At that time, it was only one web page, but
if you printed it out, it was about 25 pages long. Then I quit printing
copies, and told anyone who wanted it to get it from the website. It
became fairly popular and won some awards from America Online, so it was being
read by AOL users, and not only by people who heard about it directly from me or
from friends of friends. Each year when my wife and I went to Maui, I
found more things to add, and that single web page got longer and longer. In 1999, I got my own website at www.mauihawaii.org and moved "Jon's Maui Info" from AOL to that site. I finally started making a few additional web pages on that site, with more detailed information about hotels, restaurants, and activities, while still updating and enlarging the main long printable page each year. After I retired at the end of 2001, I spent more time expanding the website each year, with more and more web pages about specific Maui topics, in addition to the ever-enlarging printable paper (which printed out at 41 pages as of 2008). The biggest expansion began in 2004, and is still continuing, in which I am making individual web pages about each Maui hotel, condo, restaurant, and activity. I visit each hotel and condo, and eat at each restaurant, and personally take the photos on each of those pages of this website. In 2008, I spent many hours over several months, completely re-writing every page of this website. I had previously been making the pages in a program called Microsoft FrontPage. But that program became outdated and was discontinued, so in 2008 I re-made all the pages with a newer program called Microsoft Expression Web. I also completely revised the menus and navigation structure, to make it easier to find what you are looking for, because the website had grown to nearly 200 separate web pages (in addition to the single long page with the 41-page printable guide). Below is an image of the old version of the Home page, as it looked in November of 2008, before the major upgrade to the current version. A few people have told me that they are glad that those garish green arrows are gone. In 2010 I started a free email monthly Maui Newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking the button to the left of the menus at the top of this page. My favorite thing about making and maintaining this Maui website is the emails I get from visitors. So please write to tell me what you liked or didn't like on this website or on Maui, or any questions you may have as you plan your trip to Maui. Be sure to let me know if you find any errors, or any links that don't work, or anything that needs updating. You can write to me at jon@mauihawaii.org. Please include the word Maui in the subject line of your email. |
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