New Site Design

Zach M · Posted: Feb 03, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject: New Site Design

Props to Pat and the rest of the WB crew for getting the new site up. It looks great. I'm usually not a big fan of scrolldown menu's, but they seem to work pretty good. You guys are awesome.

base · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 208

its not good. when i bring the curser down from my favorites it hits the pop up menus, which stay there even though the curser is not over them...

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Like it... I was shocked to see it up... The menus are sweet and make the site nicer to navigate.

Pat McCarthy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 12:02 am Post subject:

Yeah, we're trying the pulldowns out...we can switch back if it doesn't work out. But it saves some space. I can't duplicate your problem base, are you sure you know how to use a computer?

There will also be some other new things we're adding, content to be added back, there's a new product store, etc.

Skwake · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 12:17 am Post subject:

i like it

Zach M · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 2:52 am Post subject:

I think what base is saying is that there is a lag time between when your mouse comes off the scrolldown menu and when it dissapears. It takes a second or two before it goes away. I noticed that too. Its kind of annoying when you're just rolling your mouse past and the menu pops up.

nick e[V]ans · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

mad props pat, you are the biggest legend. nah seriously, you musta been working your but off to get this up and running. cheers
nick

Gbgonzal138 · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 887

Thanks Pat I have we have all been waiting for a while.

riverfreak · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 6:33 am Post subject:

the set up is nice, but the text and background are entirely too dark, I'm straining to read the text on the homepage.....if you could just lighten it up a bit.....

franknbeans · Soul Rider Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 272 City: Ft. Worth

Right on riverfreak, I always strain to read black text on a white background.

Sean_Brinston · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 8:21 am Post subject:

Awesome job pat. It looks awesome. Like Nick said you musta been working your ass off. Thanks Pat!

chubby · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 487 City: NC

its pimped owt

Jeff · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 678 City: Long Island

nice site, glad its up again

Pat McCarthy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 8:40 am Post subject:

Are you serious about having a hard time reading the text? It's black text on white....

Chukee_R · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 9:10 am Post subject:

I feel like a part of me is alive again... Smile

Thanks for bringing it back Pat and it looks good!

w8kechick · Criminal Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 71 City: Cincy

I think the site looks great!!! Very Happy

TSchultz · Criminal Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 96 City: S. Minnesota

Is it just me, but on mine the scroll down menus are too low it covers up other parts of the text. And I'm talking about the actual menu, not when your mouse is over it.

christy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 9:52 am Post subject:

Woo-hoo!!! So nice to have the site back! I like it Pat. Nice job you guys! Having a products section is cool. Need to beef up the store with more stuff though. I'd like to see more stickers. Maybe a larger color selection in the T-backs, too. The Wakeboarder.com T-shirt could use a little more design, like maybe a silhouette of some nice grabs or something. Just my .02.

Pat McCarthy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 9:56 am Post subject:

TSchultz, do you know how to take a screenshot? If you could do that and e-mail it to me I'd love to see what you're seeing.

Yep Christy, we're planning on doing lots of new designs for products. Just need the time to do it! Any suggestions are welcome...

bullzeke69 · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 9:59 am Post subject:

Man glad see you back on-line, I guess getting all this put back together took longer than I thought it was going to take you. Looks good!!!!

grady · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 547 City: d-block

new site looks good pat...props 2 da whole wakerboarder.com gang..keep up the awesome work

base · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 208

yeah its delayed...its not good. the menu shouldn't open unless u click on it.

and if u were a real man, u would add a daily news section where u talk about whats going on in the world of wakeboarding...adding ur own comments etc....

Pat McCarthy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject:

That section exists base, it's called Wake Thoughts. And it has existed for a long time, however I lost all the past posts in the crash...

Also, there isn't a whole lot going on in wakeboarding right now....

base · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 208

no...not thoughs. daily news...and u could add comments about the news along the way. no wakeboarding site does daily news..updated more then once a day. like little news blocks. they can be completely insignificant things, or whatever. it would only take a few minutes to do it.

sounds like a plan eh?

Pat McCarthy · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

The problem is that there isn't daily news to report on. Even insignificant things. The closest thing to it is the press releases we get. There are the occasional rumors and news items that aren't in press release format, and I include those in Wake Thoughts.

base · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 208

make stuff up...

just preach...

Bo Coppinger · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject:

I think the new site is sweet Very Happy

JRock*Girl · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 1340

Its sweeet pat, i was shocked to see it back up already. Did you recover all of the articles?

Dave Barousse · Addict Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 546 City: Eugene

JRock,
We were able to recover all of the articles dating back to June of last year. Anything after June is gone. We also lost a lot of images and video clips that will be very noticeable if you browse around the site. We are still working hard to get everything back to normal again.

Thanks for all of the complements on the new site. I am kind of glad that we had the opportunity to try out some new things, but we could have done without the server crashing. Thanks for hanging in there with us through all of this. We appreciate the support!

Romi · Posted: Feb 05, 2003 8:28 am Post subject:

Pat.. the "wake thoughts" is one of my favorite sections. Keep it up

Truthfully Wink

BTW ...looks good.