Taunaki is a website dedicated to wellness. It features reviews of wellness professionals and providers, articles about wellness, business listings and an advanced search enabling our users to quickly find the wellness product or service they're looking for. The mission is to be a complete resource and guide to wellness.

This week-end the site was deployed and tested by several volunteers. Hopefully this means most of the kinks have been found and fixed. If you encounter an error, or have suggestions on how to improve usability and functionality, please don't hesitate to let us know. We want the site to be for you users. Which means, be as is most practical and useful for you.

What functionalities are available now?

The core functions, which the entire concept is based on, are up and running.

First off, there is a nice bunch of articles for you to read and explore. They are sorted by categories to allow you to browse through them by interest. We hope to find writers and expand the collection of articles to cover all areas related to wellness and make it a real useful resource for our users.

The business and reviews section is functioning and just waiting for your input and reviews. The more places and experiences you share, the better the site becomes. You need to sign up as a user and log in to write reviews and rate businesses.

Finally, there's the search widget which allows you to search through all the businesses and their reviews to find precisely the wellness offer you're looking for.

When you're logged in you can go to your page and change your user settings, see a list of the reviews you've written as well as the public display of your information. The public view is what other users can read and see about you. Currently just what you have written about yourself and link to your homepage and such, but we have plans for more later.

If you feel lost, there's a FAQ where the most common questions have been answered. If you have further questions, or want to contact us you can use the contact form. The Sitemap is there to help you navigate around on the page.

For those interested in the technology behind Taunaki, we've created a technology page which can give you some idea.

If you want to become an author for Taunaki and write articles about wellness, you can find further information on the author page. And if you're interested in banner exchanges or sponsoring, there's a sponsors page where you can learn more and get further information.

There are of course the usual pages with legal notices and a page telling about Taunaki.

What is next?

Now the goal is to spread the word and encourage people to use the site. The article section has a nice foundation but we are still looking for writers who're interested in contributing with their knowledge and expertise. The more articles we have about wellness and all the different products and services which are out there, the more use we are to our users. It's in the interest of the entire wellness business to have as much information available as possible. This helps educate the general populace and can serve as a guide when they're considering a new wellness service or product.

We also need people to review and rate wellness businesses they've used. This means to get into touch with both clients and owners and spread the word. A site like this goes by the snowball effect. The more people who joins up and add businesses and reviews, the more people will use the site and find it relevant. Not to mention the most important fact, it helps users find precisely that service they're looking for.

There are several plans already on how the develop the site and improve the experience for the users. These things will be announced as we implement them. Again, please don't hesitate to contact us should you have ideas or suggestions for the site. We'll gladly listen to you and take your thoughts into consideration.

If you're interested in helping one way or another, please don't hesitate to contact us or spread the word. Encourage people to join up and write reviews, write articles or find authors so Taunaki can become the resource to wellness it's envisioned to become.