Posted 2 weeks ago #
Hello
Just thought I would post my skiing a snowboarding news website, Snow Surge.
Snow Surge runs on the latest version of WordPress (2.5.1 at time of posting) and runs a modified version of the paid Revolution Pro Media design.
It has daily news article about skiing and snowboarding, written by a team of 3 writers + me.
In the future we plan to launch an integrated forum and expand the amount of posts.
Please post any feedback here.
Calum
Posted 2 weeks ago #
This looks great. Could you sell directly from your site using WordPress and this theme?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
I agree, that site looks great.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Thanks for the thoughts.
Honu, I am not sure what you mean. I spent $80 on the theme, it is called "Revolution Pro Media", but it is also quite heavily modified.
What do you mean by sell directly from your site?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Any more reviews?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
I think it kicks butt! I really like that theme, and your logo too.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Thanks. The theme is from www.revolutiontheme.com but it costs $80 to buy a license.
The logo is custom designed by the designer I normally use, so I love it. Any suggestions to make it better?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
That theme really pays off. Good website name. It all boils down to your content - which is good so far.
keep it up!
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Thanks. I spent a lot on that theme because I thought that even if I got a custom theme it wouldn't be as good.
I bought the name a few months ago, never got around to setting up a site but now I have.
The content is written by my team of three writers. Each of them sends me an article through email every two days which I then put live and pay the writers for.
The content will stay the same quality, since I don't write it because I am too busy :)
Posted 1 week ago #
Sickness! (that's a good thing in snowboard language!)
Classy theme. Well worth the coin.
Posted 1 week ago #
What do you mean by sell directly from your site?
Just that if you wanted to sell, say, snowboards, from this site, would you be able to? After looking at different WP plug-ins, I looks as if that would be manageable through paypal or other vendor services.
Again, great site.
Posted 1 week ago #
Honu, yes it would be.
Actually, it is currently just a news site but we do have plans to expand into other areas such as a forum.
We don't have any plans to directly sell, but I am in contact with four suppliers of winter sports gear, so we can get some coupons and affiliate links etc.
This way, Snow Surge readers get a discount, and for every one of them that purchases something I get paid a cut (eg. 10%).
Our team of writers has now increased to 3, who all get paid by PayPal. If you want to write please post your email here.
Posted 1 week ago #
Thanks for the info. Sounds like you know what you're doing with this. And thanks for the writing invitation; I've got a long list of my own projects that I need to work on, but it's nice to be asked. :)
Just a heads up, something to consider, that that (your site) really doesnt degrade well for ppl that surf with JS disabled.
Im not sure if its inherent in Brian's theme or your implementation, but it might be worth looking into.
While lots of us use widescreen monitors, have fat pipes, lots of RAM, etc.. we still surf with JS off.
Posted 1 week ago #
Hello
The theme isn't much modified, just the layout so I assume it is just the theme in general since it is very advanced.
What recommendations can you make for me to make it more JS-off friendly? Do you think a whole new version of the site?
Calum
I assume it is just the theme in general since it is very advanced.
Im not knocking Brian's work when I say this: An advanced theme, even a very advanced theme wouldnt rely on JS so much that the site is virtually unusable without it being enabled.
In other words, thats a flaw in your thinking :)
An 'advanced' theme would be taking that into account. With the ease with which JS can be disabled now, its almost a necessity that that possibility be taken into account.
Again, Im not knocking Brians work; I think he's very talented. I do see that as a severe shortcoming though, especially since it's a theme that being used on sites that have commercial interests.
You have to weigh whats important to you, and make your own decisions.
Ive recently started on a V3 of my own site -- one of the 'things' Ive cast aside is my strict adherence to making sure that the site has no horizontal scrollbars when viewed at 800x600. For me, someone who doesn't like fluid layouts all that much, thats always limited my available space.
This time 'round, Im moving on up, and being sort of rebellious about it. But, I also know my traffic, and I have no commercial aspirations.
Even then, the disabling of JS for some folks, is a security issue, more than anything else.
Given the amount of webmasters that arent aware of the 'crap' thats been added to their sites ( see countless posts on here to prove that out ) -- "the web just cant be trusted". Marry that fact with the countless sites that deploy JS for ads..
bleh.
A rant, I know, but know that I am not alone. A lot of my friends surf just like me -- JS disabled, until there is absolutely positively something on a site that they must see.
Calum,
I think there is a way you can address the problems that Whooami is talking about using CSS.
If you haven't checked yourself yet, what happens with JS off is that all you tabbed content becomes a vertical list. The background to this list is a grey, and so is your text, so in effect it is invisible. The grey that is taking up all that background actually comes from an h2 tag that doesn't seem to display the same with JS on. Because of this, changing the following CSS will not affect your JS on appearance, but it will improve your JS off appearance.
Look at line 337ish of your CSS file and change the following:
#homepage h2
background:#202020 none repeat scroll 0%;
color:#FFFFFF;to
#homepage h2
background:#FFFFFF none repeat scroll 0%;
color:#202020;This should then give you a nice display for JS off visitors.
EDIT: Just checked again, and doing this changes the bottom two box headers, to get around that, add this to your CSS:
.homebottomleft h2, homebottomright h2 {
background: #202020;
color: #FFFFFF;Alex
and there you go :)
Posted 1 week ago #
Thanks, will change this when I get back home :D:D
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