Trippert is new travel community site with a focus on in-depth guides to destinations and thanks to some dead simple navigation and extensive use of tags, is a great way to bone up on wherever you're thinking of going this summer.

Regular readers know I'm a sucker for a good travel site, but these days most travel communities have become little more than blog providers -- Live Journal clones with a travel focus -- and most are sorely lacking when it comes to easily finding the information you want.

Trippert eschews the travel diary approach in favor of providing an easy way to collect and save articles and photos of interest. The site's founders write:

>We don’t expect to offer the traditional travelogue features -- travel diaries, step-by-step maps that retrace a trip, etc.  Instead, we want to provide the best tool for you to add great photos and articles, to discover unexpected places, to save what you like, and to leave inspired to take a trip.

Trippert offers the sort of tag navigation you'd expect -- browsing by country or region -- but it also offers a number of other ways to find an interesting destination by tags. Say you're an architecture aficionado looking to put together a whirlwind tour of the world's most interesting buildings; click on the ["architecture" tag][2] and you'll find a list of articles on significant architectural structures around the world.

Signing up for a Trippert account will get you a user page where you can track and save your favorite articles and the nerds among us will no doubt love the RSS support which extends to per-author feeds so you can receive notifications each time your favorite Trippert user posts a new article.

Trippert isn't really breaking any new ground in the online travel community realm, but it's easy to use and has a wealth of information for a recently launched site -- highly recommended for the those in search of summer travel inspiration.

[via [Mashable][3]]

[1]: http://www.trippert.com/ "Trippert.com"
[2]: http://www.trippert.com/articles/0/0/0/3:architecture "Trippert tag: Architecture"
[3]: http://mashable.com/2007/07/16/trippert/