10 inspiring designs for outdoor and adventure websites

By Ryan Boudreaux140 February 1, 2012, 3:37 AM PST

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10 inspiring designs for outdoor and adventure websites

The Seven Natural Wonders

ntWhat are the seven natural wonders of the world? Find out when you check out The Seven Natural Wonders web site. Powered by WordPress and utilizing the Sandbox theme.

Great Outdoors

ntQuench your thirst for learning more about how Drupal gets implemented on the Great Outdoors website, besides several individual .js files the scripts also utilizes: JQuery and a DivX plus web player.

National Geographic

ntIt would be fitting to include an organization that has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888; National Geographic employs a custom CMS with thirty-seven sub-domains; this website is a massive undertaking utilizing over ten stylesheets and over thirty .js script files.

Bicycling

ntGet your ride on as you get inspiration from Bicycling magazine. Under the hood, it sports thirty-one style sheets, and forty-two scripts including several for Ajax, Coremetrics, Drupal, Google DoubleClick, and JQuery.

REI Adventures

ntLooking for more adventure in your scripting? REI Adventures utilizes Ajax, and includes many scripts written within the of the xmlns document, including REI analytics, II3 Rules, and findOutSlider.

Take Me Fishing

ntNeed to add some more script tackle to your web tool box? Take Me Fishing features a geo-location with select-a-state option, and local weather conditions by zip code, using several scripts.

PADI

ntDive into even more scripts with PADI, The Way the World Learns to Dive^TM, which runs with Microsoft ASP.

The Mountaineering School

ntAnother WordPress implementation, The Mountaineering Training School showcases creativity with implementation of the Blocco theme.

Bill Nye's Climate Lab

ntFlash struts a bounty of creative design use in Bill Nye’s Climate Lab for this interactive website.

We Choose the Moon

ntMy final inspiration comes from We Choose The Moon, which utilizes Ajax, Flash, and JQuery in creating this interactive website as part of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. While space travel is not quite ready for public transport, Apollo 11 was the first mission to get a man on the moon. One small step!

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