barbudaful.net is ten years old!

barbudaful.net is celebrating this year - we are the only web site that features just the island of Barbuda. It has been live since we decided that Barbuda should have its own web site where visitors, and Barbudans living overseas - especially those from younger generations who have never been to Barbuda - could go to find accurate information about the island. It is a community website that has a limited income from the local businesses who support it. Here we say a big thank you to those who have done so. We hope that Barbudan businesses will prosper as they get more visitors to the island through the site, and that visitors will be more satisfied knowing that the money they spend on Barbuda directly benefits local people.

our philosophy

This is a site where any Barbudan or anyone who is in business in Barbuda can be represented. We know that Barbudans around the world visit www.barbudaful.net to catch up on news from home as the web site shows Barbuda as the lively and enterprising place that it is. We include information on the history and geography of the island, facts and figures about Barbuda, and our places of interest. We encourage and support our natural tourism so we have much-needed pages for visitors to find accommodation and transport and we reply to all e-mails we get through the site if you need more help with this.

There are charges for entries on the site to cover the costs of maintaining the web site on the internet. The lowest prices are for Barbudans who have very small businesses to make it easily accessible to them. For hotels it's more expensive, but as we are a primary source of information about hotels and guesthouses on Barbuda, for a local business it makes sense to be on here. We are number one on Google and regularly listed in all the published guides to the Caribbean. You can view our subscription rates here.

an invitation

We invite anyone in Barbuda to add their details to the site and contributions from Barbudans overseas are especially welcome. Details of upcoming events or activities, for example family reunions anywhere in the world will be advertised free on Jicky's Latest News, the community news page. For those making a living from tourism, this website is an excellent way to advertise to the world and to have customers come directly to you by phone or by email. We also have a Facebook page that connects us to Barbudans who are now online all over the world, where you can read and post messages.

what we need to know

The information you provide will be included under the most suitable heading and we like to get your information right. Payment for business entries can be made in Barbuda or by Paypal, but news is free. If you would like to be included on the web site, renew your subscription or update your information please contact us here.

and then...

As soon as your entry appears on barbudaful.net you need to check the details. The charges apply once a year only and payment should be made in January for the year to December. Each January you will be asked if you wish to be included again and your listing will be removed if you do not wish to continue. You can then give the website address 'www.barbudaful.net' to your relatives, friends, and customers all over the world.

acknowledgements

We wish to thank the following people.

web site host

This web site is hosted by Graham Talbot at Turquoise Net; a travel site for the Caribbean, Central America, and beyond. Graham has featured Barbuda on www.turq.com for many years.

webmaster

Andrew Brewster helps with the complicated technical behind-the-scenes administration of the web site, produced our redesign, and publishes the new material. Without him we would be in big trouble.

photographers

We are proud of the photographs on barbudaful.net as they are all taken on the island by amateurs and professionals who have visited Barbuda or who live here, including Mohammid Walbrook, Chris Doyle, Fiona Jack, Fabio Pettinari, Mark Williams, Malte, Jerry Cindric and many others. We welcome your photographs if you have some good ones. These are typically resized to between 250 and 350 pixels maximum width to fit within the pages, and we are currently making larger versions of some newer ones available in a 'lightbox' to display on top of the pages. We appreciate a little information about what a photograph is showing and who took it; we use this to supply alternative text for images to enhance accessibility for our visitors. Pass your mouse over an image if your browser supports this to see it.

Mohammid Walbrook

Mohammed Walbrook is a Barbudan photographer. He became interested in photography while a student at the Holy Trinity School. He is working on a book of photographs of Barbuda and compiling a photographic archive of the island.

Chris Doyle

Chris Doyle is an international yachtsman and writer. Chris is a resident of Grenada and has been sailing in the Caribbean for over 30 years. He is the author of The Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands, which features information about Barbuda for sailors. Chris contributes articles to Caribbean Compass, the Caribbean's on-line monthly marine magazine, while he has his own web site at www.doylecaribbean.com.

Fiona Jack

Fiona Jack is an artist and photographer, who visited Barbuda and has published her beautiful photos in many international magazines and travel guides.

Fabio Pettinari

Fabio Pettinari is a fashion photographer from Milan. He covers the haute couture shows in Paris, London, and Milan. Fabio came to Barbuda several years ago to photograph the Palmetto Hotel. He has contributed to the lifestyle magazine Condé Nast Traveller.

Mark Williams

Mark Williams and his family came to Barbuda for a week in 2002. They stayed at the Carriage House, hired a vehicle, and took many interesting photos.

Friends and family and others on Barbuda…

…who send us their pictures all the time - thankyou xx

the website founders

Claire Frank

Claire is an artist and writer and regularly updates the site. She has contributed articles about Barbuda to other Caribbean websites and in the international press. Claire has taken many of the photographs for barbudaful.net and writes the content.

Lesley Watkins

Lesley wrote and took many photographs for the site over several years. After Lesley gained a Masters degree from London University, she worked in publishing in England. Lesley was also a teacher in Barbuda for many years.

using this website

copyright

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accessibility

We try to make this website as accessible to as wide a range of readers as possible. We try to follow the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, though we don't guarantee compliance to any particular level. We have also included WAI-ARIA document structure and landmark roles where relevant. Some of the older content, such as pages in the archive, will have fewer such features. Please contact us if we can make it better.