its really nice
i think it would be good to have a shortcut to see the old posts , to search them by month and year

it's sweet!

Jack B. wrote:

loving the new unite Kerry, sure I need to get used to it but I find everything flows together better than the old unite but one question, the picture on the banner, please tell me you didn't actually grind that ?

hell yes! that spot is sick

Xi wrote:

I'm having mixed feelings about the new Unite. There are good and bad things about both the previous and current Unite sites so I'll just note my personal opinions here. They're just my own feelings though so don't ignore the many voices of praise.

What I miss from the old blog:
· Being able to read pretty much everything on one page - Sure I might skip a few video posts but at least I can view everything on the same page.
· More prominent post dates - When you view the page(s) of news posts, you can't see the date of when something was posted. Derpy people like me might not realise straight away whether they have already read a post or not. Currently, you only see a small date/time at the end of a post and you need to click into the post to see it.

What I like about the new site:
· Nice top story picture links on the top
· New formats of posts
· Video Roundups

Suggestions:
· Categorising/tagging posts could make it easier to find certain types of posts or being able to see straight away whether it is a type of post of interest to the reader. This also goes for the reviews as it would be good to be able to sort/filter them to see just decks or wheels, etc.

Other than this, I do like the idea of a transition into a web magazine style Unite.

it's of no surprise to me you've given such well structured feedback, thankyou my friend I'll address some of the issues you've written below.

João Pedro O wrote:

its really nice
i think it would be good to have a shortcut to see the old posts , to search them by month and year

the old posts are viewable by clicking the archive in the footer. I plan to make that more navigatable like you suggested at the weekend - that was on my to do list. Glad you agree

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My plans for the weekend:
-make the old unite into 'the unite archive' and remove everything from the side but posts, archive list of posts by month, and a search bar.

-make posts scrollable between posts, so you wont have to go back to the home page. I actually learnt something whilst scouring the internet yesterday and taught myself nested SQL commands, which I'd never used before. (SQL is the language that queries databases, which all the posts are stored in) So I'll be able to have 'next post' and 'previous post' at the bottom of each post page before the footer. Would you guys like that?

-more a note than something I'll do, the posts are all tagged by category, just you cant see it. AND, the function to find posts by category exists already. the link to the reviews is http://www.unitefingerboarding.com/posts.php?cat=reviews - notice the posts list page is just one page, which can be passed many variables which change what it displays (the whole of unite is only 5 pages of php and that's it). 'searchcrit' is for searching, which you can do at the bottom, and 'cat' is for category. if you go to http://www.unitefingerboarding.com/posts.php?cat=products , notice how you get all the products posts? simple. Would you guys like some links to different categories at the bottom, like products and videos?

also, DON'T FORGET THE SEARCH FUNCTION. Want to find all the reviews about decks? Just search for 'deck'. Alright you'll get something else too, but mostly reviews. Unfortunately I've not coded it to nest categories AND search criteria at the same time, maybe I'll do that one day probably more complicated than everything else I've got planned though.

All that said, thanks for the feedback everyone

Hey Kerry, long time no chat.  
Love the new layout, but here are a couple points on my mind.

• The font is beautiful. But I do agree in that it might be a little strenuous on the eye after 15 minutes of reading. Not worth changing, IMO.
  
  
• I agree 100% with:
  

  Bobbernaut wrote:

  
  And when I go to the homepage, I hate having to click on every link to read it.
  Maybe make it expandable
  

Bug report:
1. When on the homepage, scroll down and click "more posts..."
2. Scroll down, click "Older Posts ->"
3. Enjoy pages & pages & pages & pages of reviews, followed by pages of SOTW's.

Edit:
Just tried out the search feature. There are no results found for neither "swag", nor "sexy". There is something wrong here, Kerry.

TaylorT wrote:

Bug report:
1. When on the homepage, scroll down and click "more posts..."
2. Scroll down, click "Older Posts ->"
3. Enjoy pages & pages & pages & pages of reviews, followed by pages of SOTW's.

that's not a bug dude, that's all the posts there are. if you read 'welcome to unite 4.0', you'll read that I didn't bring all the old posts across as there's no real way to export them from the old unite, so I'm not transfering almost 10,000 posts manually - it literally would take me a few weeks solid

thanks for your thoughts on it though I'll get on fixing the swag right away

kerryDETH wrote:

TaylorT wrote:

Bug report:
1. When on the homepage, scroll down and click "more posts..."
2. Scroll down, click "Older Posts ->"
3. Enjoy pages & pages & pages & pages of reviews, followed by pages of SOTW's.

that's not a bug dude, that's all the posts there are. if you read 'welcome to unite 4.0', you'll read that I didn't bring all the old posts across as there's no real way to export them from the old unite, so I'm not transfering almost 10,000 posts manually - it literally would take me a few weeks solid

thanks for your thoughts on it though :DI'll get on fixing the swag right away

Oh ok, that makes sense. I had not read that post.

just a little update for you all:

Now you can navigate between posts on the post page rather than going home! Hooray for nested SQL statements, dunno why I never thought of that when I made the site but oh well - I'm stoked you guys have given such great feedback that's been helpful as well as positive. Enjoy

more updates coming soon, hopefully this week if I get time.

hooray !! nice touch kerry

Really enjoying the new unite, i think it looks super clean and professional. I think the new unite layout gives it more of a personal touch which i really like about it. Good job kerry !

I dig it. It went from looking like FBTV, to a really unique site that not only myself, but other people really enjoy. Great job Kerry.

i really like the layout, very well done, great job! 

kerryDETH wrote:

just a little update for you all:
snip

Now you can navigate between posts on the post page rather than going home! Hooray for nested SQL statements, dunno why I never thought of that when I made the site but oh well - I'm stoked you guys have given such great feedback that's been helpful as well as positive. Enjoy

more updates coming soon, hopefully this week if I get time.

this made the website 10x better.

It is so easy to navigate now and the layout just kind of flows. I love the new version. I've pretty much been reading every article since he update.

Oscar V. wrote:

kerryDETH wrote:

just a little update for you all:
snip

Now you can navigate between posts on the post page rather than going home! Hooray for nested SQL statements, dunno why I never thought of that when I made the site but oh well - I'm stoked you guys have given such great feedback that's been helpful as well as positive. Enjoy

more updates coming soon, hopefully this week if I get time.

this made the website 10x better.

Agreed.

Kerry the site is badass. Only complaint is that you don't post enough I'd say write less, post more.

Ollie wrote:

Kerry the site is badass. Only complaint is that you don't post enough :(I'd say write less, post more.

What he said ^
I can never be arsed read all the writing on the new site :/ And more posts is always good!
I feel like the videos don't get enough attention now either.

Oscar V. wrote:

kerryDETH wrote:

just a little update for you all:
snip

Now you can navigate between posts on the post page rather than going home! Hooray for nested SQL statements, dunno why I never thought of that when I made the site but oh well - I'm stoked you guys have given such great feedback that's been helpful as well as positive. Enjoy

more updates coming soon, hopefully this week if I get time.

this made the website 10x better.

glad to hear that

as for the 'write more articles and less text'.. two things to that.
1) that's what I wanted to get away from. the line starts to blur and before you know it you're writing nothing at all. I hate that, personally.
2) without the time to post twice a day every day.. I cant actually find more. When I was writing once a day I was posting 2 bits of news and a bunch of videos. Now I'm posting 2-3 bits of news a day and a bunch of videos, just the videos are condensed into one post so it looks significantly less. The amount of content hasn't really changed

It's not for everyone though, so if you want just quick feeds of news there's a plethora of fingerboarding news sites out there, I need not list them. I knew some people wouldn't like what I was doing when I changed things but the thing was.. I wasn't liking what I was doing before. And that's something I felt I had to address - fingerboarding isn't my job any more, I work 40 hours a week and another 5+ hours a week volunteering, the little time I have left I want to enjoy and do something I'm passionate about

thanks for the feedback though, hopefully you'll still check the site from time to time those of you who find the new style not for you

Kerry you are the man. Seriously. Devoting time to helping the fingerboard scene and trying to please everyone. You have outdone yourself with Unite, it looks freaking awesome now. Its still taking me a little bit to adjust to it but its much more cleanly laid out and I has a much for professional website feel to it.

jbginger wrote:

Kerry you are the man. Seriously. Devoting time to helping the fingerboard scene and trying to please everyone. You have outdone yourself with Unite, it looks freaking awesome now. Its still taking me a little bit to adjust to it but its much more cleanly laid out and I has a much for professional website feel to it.

word.  

yes its a bump blah blah but kerry i was thinking that instead of having a setup of the week you could have a 1st 2nd and 3rd place, just so that more people out there get to see nice decks. Also the photo on the side would be of the 1st place and then two smaller photos side by side of 2nd and 3rd place? just and idea

One thing I really absolutely hate 100% is the lack of posts. I check unite every day and sometimes I only find one post. Today there is yet to be even a single post. Whether Kerry is busy or just getting lazy with posts is beyond my knowledge, but yeah more posting like he used to would be enjoyable. Sorry if this turned into a rant.

idk if this is too much, but i remember fb weekly being sick, because they had interviews, and reports on people, done by other people than chris. like, maybe kerry could have like 2 or 3 "reporters" or some people who also posted stuff. interviews would be sick too

I dig it Kerry. I saw it before I saw this post and loved how it looked.

jackson wrote:

idk if this is too much, but i remember fb weekly being sick, because they had interviews, and reports on people, done by other people than chris. like, maybe kerry could have like 2 or 3 "reporters" or some people who also posted stuff. interviews would be sick too

yes man , i remember when chris was looking for a brazilian reporter on the forum we had haha

that would be a great idea to have more people to write

fb weekly was fucking sick. i support jackson's idea 100%