UnmissableTokyo.com

MatsubaraMike

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I've just launched a guide to the best travel experiences Tokyo has to offer. The focus is on things really unique to Japan that you couldn't experience anywhere else, rather than standard tourist attractions.

I'd really appreciate any feedback.

UnmissableTokyo.com
 
OK - I've done a redesign - and added more content and a lot more photos:

UnmissableJapan.com

It should be easier to find your way around the site now - thanks for the feedback
 
It looks very nice, the articles look like they are good fun to read, But it is late here so I will have to read them in the morning. Good luck with you website.
 
I notice that you seem to be sourcing almost all of the photos from Flickr and that you have been very careful to use only photos participating in Creative Commons. If you have snagged a copyrighted photo I haven't been able to spot it.

You are to be commended for this.....but it would be nice if you followed the terms of the CC licensing and included attribution. Yes, I know the photos link back to the Flickr pages of the the photographers but that strikes me as hardly sufficient. It would be better to include a line of hotlinked text beneath the photos instead.

Regarding the night trains:

If you take a careful look at the time tables you find that some of the sleeper trains actually spend several hours stopped at a station along the way. At least that was the case the last time had the free time to dig through a time table.
 
Thanks very much - please let me know if you find anything I should change - or add,

Mike
 
Hi Mike,

Thanks for your feedback. The main reason I used links to attribute the photos rather than names, was because so many people only give their username not their real names on Flickr - and it wouldn't really be much of a credit if I just gave the usernames. Linking seems to be the established standard for CC photos - and I've contacted all the photographers who seem happy with this approach - so unless I have any complaints I'll probably stick with this.

For anyone else with any kind of web-page, I'd really recommend making use of Creative Commons - there are some really great photos out their up for grabs - and most of the photographers have been really grateful to me for using their photos.

And Mike, ta for the info about the night trains - I'll look into that and maybe mention it the next time I do an update,

cheers,

Mike
 
Again, your approach to photo usage is commendable and beyond reproach. Although I know it is largely pointless, I reserve copyright on all my photos posted to Flickr. Every now and then I find someone using them without permission. Often I find that people have posted them to their blog, from which they get re-blogged and re-re-blogged ad infinitum. Usually the back link is obvious, but almost without exception they make it look like I posted my photo to their blog, which is mildly irksome, though nothing to get worked up about. I generally post a comment thanking them for liking my photo and only take them to task if they change the name/title of the photo.

People who bother to contact and either ask for permission or at a bare minimum inform me that they intend to use my photos are rare and I really appreciate it when they make the effort. On a couple of rare instances I have had people grab one of my photos and try to pass it off as being their own. One ***** even claimed that because he had modified it (cropped) that it was a new photo and he could claim copyright. Apparently he never bothered to read the part of copyright law pertaining to "derivative works" (copyright still belongs to the original holder). One of my Aussie friends here in Japan with some roughneck mates in Sydney, where the guy lives, offered to send them over gratis to lay a beating on the guy and the photo disappeared from his site.

Best of luck to you with the site.
 
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