Archive for the ‘News’ Category

One can only dream!

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

The news is reporting that Time Inc., which already publishes Golf Magazine, Golfonline, Sports Illustrated, SI Golf Plus and SI.com’s Golf Plus has bought Golf.com for an undisclosed sum. Golf.com pulls an average of 1.3 million unique visitors monthly.

We’d be happy with 1/4 of this traffic!

Upgrade and Update

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Well, Christmas is well and truly behind us and we’ve been up and running for a couple of weeks now, without too many hitches. We’ve just completed an upgrade to the WordPress 2.0 software that runs the site. As a result there have been some minor outages over the past couple of days — mostly due to some technical problems at the other end and beyond our control. I also noticed that the subscribe functionality has also been AWOL, so if you’ve been trying to subscribe to receive updates via email, give it another try. Hopefully these issues is all resolved for the time being.

There’s been a fair bit of golfing action over the short-break, but plenty more to come with the weather being perfect for golf. It’s great to see that we’re attracting new visitors to the site (welcome!), and the faithful band of regulars have stuck with us. Thank you to everyone. We look forward to your continued participation.

Remember, if you have any suggestions on how we could improve on the site, we’d love to hear them. Email us!

New site is live!

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Welcome to the new golfinmelbourne website, we hope you like it! Along with a new look and feel, the site is packed with lots of new features including:

  • RSS – Really Simple Syndication
  • A photo gallery with all of our pics
  • A weather feed to keep you abreast of the weather in Melbourne
  • User registration and publishing capability. New members (contributors) welcome.
  • Subscribe to get updates of the site via email
  • Ability to search the site to easily find what you’re looking for

We will continue to provide members with access to great content including a guide to finding the best courses in Melbourne, all kinds of reviews, stories and annecdotes. Members also receive a free golfinmelbourne email account.

You’ll notice we’re using a new format for the site — its now a blog. We’ve imported the old content and have set the date/time on this to 01 December 2005, 00:00. Use the search tool if you’re looking for something specific!

Drop us a line and let us know what you think — we’d love to hear your feedback.