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 T-ride_Shroomfest
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 Soft Launch of shroomfest.com  2
#13671682 - 12/22/10 06:35 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Okay, It's up and running. A few pages need some polish and so does our banner but take a look at let us know what you guys think. What else can we do to make this better. We're open to just about anything.
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 Ythan
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Sweet, it really looks great man! You obviously put a lot of work into this. It's sure a step up from the old site, eh? 
The background's a little busy, but it's fun. Combined with the transparency it makes things slightly difficult to read though. I'd probably dial back on the that a bit, or more specifically, I wouldn't use transparency at all on the text itself - only on the container. Eg. before, after. One annoying thing about that is you'd have to ditch the CSS opacity property; it's always inherited by child elements (ie. the text) and there's no way to clear it. So instead, you might consider specifying a semi-transparent PNG as the container's background image (that's how I did it in the mockup).
That's just my own two cents though and it's pretty nit-picky. Overall I think you did a really good job. I'd be proud to have that site representing my fest. 
P.S. there's a typo in the latest headline, it should be "welcome to our soft launch".
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Masticore
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 Re: Soft Launch of shroomfest.com [Re: Ythan]
#13689501 - 12/27/10 06:17 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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It looks like the sight is off to a good start!
I'm subscribed to your RSS feed, I'm looking forward to seeing this progress.
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T-ride_Shroomfest
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Re: Soft Launch of shroomfest.com [Re: Masticore]
#13692073 - 12/27/10 07:01 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thank's for the advise! We've fixed everything and are working on the opacity issue (not sure what we're going to do yet) so we're almost ready to do a full fledged launch!
We're just now working on the last of the write ups and graphics 
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japa2222
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Hey man site looks good. I did notice that the dates of the festival aren't easily visible. Just thought I'd let you know. I'm pumped for the festival!
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luvdemshrooms
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I like your site but the background is too harsh.
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T-ride_Shroomfest
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Thanks for that folks, we'll work on making the dates more obvious this weekend. I think as to the background we're just going to remove opacity for the time being.
Keep it coming guys, the more feedback the better!
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GeoMcCheeseburgers
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Agreed. The background is def. over the top. The rest of the site looks nice.
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T-ride_Shroomfest
Shroomfest
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We've changed the website background (among other things), let us know what you guys think
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T-ride_Shroomfest
Shroomfest
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Okay, we're getting real close to launch guys. We think we're about there.
Let us know of anything you think might need to be changed.
-Shroomfest
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veggie
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Looks great T-ride. The new background is awesome, makes the site very readable. Good job.
Three minor suggestions:
Add a new link for pictures from past events. Like the ones that were in your previous background, but not in collage form, similar to what you have on the Telluride Institute page.
May be just me, but I like when links to your own site open in the same tab, as they are now, and links that go off site to open in a new tab.
Upon clicking on 'Forums' you are presented with links to your forum here and also our main site, which is great. You may want add text indicating that in order to reply and make new posts a short free registration is required and also include a link to the 'New Account' form.
That's all. Lookin' good. Looks like you are ready to go. 
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T-ride_Shroomfest
Shroomfest
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Re: Soft Launch of shroomfest.com [Re: veggie]
#13806662 - 01/18/11 11:05 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks, veggie. We'll work on the forums page suggestions later in the week. We're working on images but the back end for something like that can be HUGE. 
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Annom
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Much better with the new background! I like it, great job! 
Do you expect any serious money from the ads? I would remove them if not.
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