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How To Use The Rest
of This 300+-Page Site
Welcome
to the largest site on the web devoted to St. Maarten (sometimes misspelled "St. Marteen"), Netherlands Antilles, & St. Martin,
French West Indies (SXM), two island nations that coexist without
borders on one beautiful Northeast Caribbean island.
Our still-growing site delivers over
300 pages of island information, and we've taken four clear steps to
make it remarkably easy to navigate:
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First:
The QuickLINKS
table above includes
links to dozens of our most frequently
accessed pages.
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Second:
You'll find a
Google Site Search Engine at the
top of the column to the left. It works just
like Google but finds anything on
everythingstmaarten.com in a fraction of a
second.
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Third:
We've divided our site into three logical
sections:
Before You Fly Down,
When You First Arrive, and
While You're Here. Each section
covers a number of topics related to that
portion of your trip.
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Fourth:
We offer you two free island newsletters:
St. Maarten and St. Martin Weekly News
and the St. Maarten Timeshare Owners Email
Forum. You can sign up quickly for
either or both when you click this
subscription link.
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If you're in
search of low airfares, car rental
discounts, access to buy-one, get one free
dinners, free wine with dinners, and two
dozen other St. Maarten - St.
Martin-specific travel benefits,
learn about JMB Website Supporters.
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JMB Website
Supporters Members can access the Members
Only "Secret Website"
by clicking here.
About Our
Recommendations
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How
places in
SXM get recommended:
Since we've been going to SXM for over 30
years, we've been to many places and have our favorites. This
website tells you about our favorite St. Maarten and St. Martin
restaurants, jewelry stores, car rentals, beaches, boat trips,
excursions, sightseeing spots, and much more.
The site was purely an avocation from 1995 to
2002, when the economy dictated we either knock it off or charge
visitors for a higher (passworded) level of services (low
airfares, discount hotels, car rental discounts, and much more).
So we started
JMB Website Supporters in 2002. So far, more than 6,600 people have joined.
In 2007, we began to accept sponsorships from
St. Maarten / St. Martin businesses; that gets them banner ads
on various spots on our website.
See our Sponsor links.
Today as always we continue to recommend
only places we genuinely enjoy, both on the site and in our
free St. Maarten / St. Martin weekly newsletters --
and nobody pays us to get our recommendations. If you have
a business related to St. Maarten or St. Martin, click "Contact
Us" at the bottom of this page and let us know about it. Our
site is constantly expanding.
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How
everythingstmaarten.com started:
Since we've visited St. Maarten since 1978, we
wrote a short article about it as one of many writing samples
for
jmbcommunications.com, the website we launched in 1995 for
JMB Communications, our Massachusetts-based marketing
communications and PR company. As people began to see and
respond to that writing sample, it took on a life (and an
identity) of its own; today
www.everythingstmaarten.com has more than 160 pages.
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How
everythingstmaarten.com Started JMB Developing Websites:
In 1999, Al Wathey, owner of
Turtle Pier, one of the
restaurants we had long written about and recommended, asked us
to do a website. We declined: "We don't do websites."
"Who did yours?" Al asked.
"We did, but it was only using Microsoft Word
and 'save as HTML.'" Al insisted, so we did his original site.
Kathy and Ric Hetzel asked us to do their site months later for
Ric's Place, which they owned at the time.
Today, our
www.websitesthatwork.info develops websites for all kinds of
companies worldwide and is a big part of JMB Communications.
It's very much unlike traditional website designers because
we are a marketing company that does websites . . .
strategy, writing, optimization, the works.
And yes . . . when some SXM restaurants we've
long recommended have wanted new websites, they've asked us to
do them. If you check our
free St. Maarten / St. Martin weekly newsletters you'll see
that we recommend dozens of restaurants, though, many of whom
have no idea we even exist. As always, we only recommend places
we like -- and that won't ever change.
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