Marine Turtle Site

Been having a break from videoing underwater for abit but have been busy with other cool things.

Here is my latest project, a Marine Turtle Website for DEC (Department of Conservation) over here in West AUS.

Interestingly I decided to use allot of FLASH with it, 51 FLASH files all up scattered through the 34 HTML pages.

The drop down menu is FLASH - XML driven pulling the custom graphics into the drop down interface itself...it took quite abit of work to get right.

The photo gallery is http-javascript driven and some of the FLASH files pull text in from external text files so easy to up date later on.

Programs use to build it were, illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 and FLASH CS3.

FLASH and illustrator as so cool to work with and I only used Photoshop when I really really had to.

Anyhow have a look if you want.

http://www.ningalooturtles.org.au

Nice site.

A few copyedits:

On the pages for each turtle species, under the heading "Characteristics", you have something like, "4 pairs of large scales on either side (coastal scales)." That makes it sound like each side has 4 pairs of scales, when really it's 4 scales per side.

Also, it's "costal" scales (or scutes), not "coastal".

I recommend including notes on how many prefrontal (between the eyes) scales each species has, as that's a pretty good way of telling your three species apart simply by looking at the head. Ex. If you see a turtle with two pairs of prefontals but without the hawk-like beak, it's a loggerhead—or an olive Ridley, but I guess you don't have those at Ningaloo? If it's only got one pair, it's a green. Hawksbills have two pairs, but the head is slender and the beak is very hawk-like (not "parrot-like").

If ridleys are around, this info isn't so conclusive.

Here's a nice resource by SPC, but maybe you link to this one already:

www.spc.int/coastfish/Fishing/Turtles/ID_Turtles.pdf

-Dan

Wagsy, The site looks great. I agree with Dan about the prefrontal (between the eyes) scales, that is the way I find it easiest to identify them.

Green

Hawksbill

Regards

Gary