The web portal was developed to become the island premier information website. It is geared to promote the island and help residents, tourists and anyone else who seeks information. A category system plus a zoom-in until building and street level make its usage easy and attractive. Shortcuts to areas of high business intensity are provided.
The web portal offers every business on island a FREE web page, updatable anytime with password and username. A service which unique on island and more than welcome in difficult economic times.
Currently www.mapsxm.com is integrated into the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta website, negotiations about the integration with other websites are underway.
The success of ‘Mapsxm’ is shown it its figures: From launch date December 1, 2008 until May 17, 2009 ‘Mapsxm’ had almost 120 000 page views. Visitors average of 8.5 pages per visit and stay 6.5 minutes on the site.
Virtual St. Maarten / St. Martin was created by Litemoon, a local Agency for Advanced Web Development and Marketing. Head developer Nicolas Warme is currently working on new exiting features and widgets which will be presented in the course of the following months.
(Text: Birgit Roethel, Phone: +599-553 4427, email: br+litemoon.com)
