“Site opens Sept. 15The South Whidbey Discussion Forum Web site is slated by its designer, Phil Shinners, to open Sept. 15. The Internet address is www.whidbey.cc/bbs.The communication gap between teenagers, their parents and the rest of the community may be narrowed if people use a new Web site created by Phil Shinners.Shinners owns a Web design company based on South Whidbey, but he said the teen discussion Web site is not a profit making venture. Instead, it stems from his experience as a teenager in the late 1980s and early ’90s.Now neatly dressed and sporting close-cropped hair, Shinners looks little like he did when he was a self-described member of the stoner or skateboard crowd on South Whidbey. He graduated from high school here in 1991 through Virginia Horner’s reentry program.Still a teenager, he married Blair Hutchinson of Clinton. In 1995 he joined the United States Marine Corps, looking for a new life. They definitely turned me around, he said, laughing at memories of his introduction to Marine Corps discipline. He owes his present occupation to the Marines, where he was head webmaster for the 2nd FSSG, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Today, Shinners, his wife and their 8-year-old son live in Clinton in an area where they see many teenagers come and go with little communication with adults. Communication is very insufficient from what I’ve seen, he said. I wanted to open a line of communication.The Web site is labeled the South Whidbey Discussion Forum and describes its purpose as for community enlightenment only. It will open Sept. 15; tentative topics for discussion are sex, drugs, alcohol and teens; teens in Langley; and general discussion.One thing that irked him as a teen, Shinners said, was that his crowd had a bad reputation in the community, but that they were doing the same as everyone else. The preps and jocks have this aura of being really good, he said. If their parents had ever known — drugs and sex at Double Bluff, they were just as bad as us.He hopes his Web site will result in the various groups getting to know each other better in the safety and anonymity of cyberspace. You can’t stand up in an assembly and say, ‘This is how I feel,’ he said. Now they can post something they’re not comfortable telling their parents. “