[Closed] my skills website, any problems with each page?

Jedi

It all seems to work ok, inc the blog - some great north shore/wood work riding!!
Get some more pics on the gallery, its all looking good 😀

http://www.ukbikeskills.co.uk/northshore_training.html

looks like there's a pic or logo not working in the bottom right corner.

looks like there's a pic or logo not working in the bottom right corner

Its a link to Pinkbike - it seems to work on my machine

It's a flash link so not everyone can see it.

Jedi - just watched the north shore vid - is that you?? That great riding!!

Looks good. There are a couple of things I've spotted (although nothing major). The Freeride and North Shore banner has a hyperlink red border around it on the 'Book a course' page (when you place the cursor over it), on the other pages it doesn't and there's no hyperlink on it on the road skills and Gallery page.

On the BMX page, should the Mark Atkins title link somewhere?

ton, yeah thats me

its a work in progress and i'm trying to get the site dialled

looks really, really good. Slight typo on the bmx page 'multiple World BMX BMX Champion,'. Like it!

The large white font (impact style) looks a bit ragged to me. It might just be my monitor, but the font doesn't look that smooth (compare it to the menu headings which are images - they look better imo).

very minor note - clicking on the two links on the left - 'making farrah faster' opens up a new window, whilst 'niki's xc skills day' takes you to the page in the same window. got myself a wee bit confuzzled!

mmm free plugs for your website by asking if it works thread.....

😉 😆

Not for the first either http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/my-coaching-website-whatcha-think
Spam sandwitch anyone?

no im not. i have been on this site for years. i am asking the stw community that i try to help out with htier questions too.

jeez

I found a problem I'm afraid Jedi - took a quick look at the site but I still can't do those big road gaps and the 15' skinnies!

Ref to snaps - I think this is a perfectly sensible way to get a site tested on different browsers and so-on. If you don't want to join in, then don't. And you can't spell sandwich.

Skills Guiding - Member

mmm free plugs for your website by asking if it works thread.....

Sour grapes?

ChatsworthMusters - Member

Skills Guiding - Member

mmm free plugs for your website by asking if it works thread.....

Sour grapes?

That made me laugh 😆

Haven't looked through all of it but straightawy there's a typo on the first page - something about being well known in the freerdie area.

Came across a couple of you clients doing their homework at the Woburn playground this morning.

I was trying out my crosser with muds fitted for next weeks race, and couldn't help but notice how tidy the lines were. Was that you?

yes it was old git, i went there before coaching there and buffed the line i wanted to use to coach and tidied the drop at the end

skills guiding, out of interest how long you been a member on singletrackworld?

well around 10 months on this forum then a couple of years on the old pre-hacked one.

a couple of years? what name?

Do you want to date me or something? 😉

Changed my user name around a month or so but thanks for taking the intrest in me 🙂 Now i'm not going to continue to bump your thread anymore

nevermind.

Jedi - All seems to be working OK on my browser (IE7) - don't work too well on my Crackberry but that ain't the end of the world.

Nothing that jumps out at me like previous, few minor tweaks but still looking good!

BTW - saw this earlier - looking forward to seeing what the dates are going to be...

http://www.bikerumor.com/2009/10/31/boost-your-skillz-with-basquemtb-and-ukbikeskills-training-camps/

bushwacked, email me the minor tweaks please 🙂

Jedi - YGM...

Are there any dates for the BasqueMTB skills week yet or are they being decided?

Tony, from the homepage -
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@Skills Guiding - slightly [i]childish[/i] response there eh?

Jedi - what's this new "Freerdie World" on http://www.ukbikeskills.co.uk/northshore_training.html. Maybe Freeride world? Though I reckon Free-r-die sums up how I'd get on at Herts shore 😉

Re: That blurry text above. Must be my PC as Impact font is blurry everywhere not just in Internet Explorer

Links bad on mine too...

text don't look that blurry on my PC though

the northshore/freeride speeling error has been corrected.

blurry link?

sorry but I'm with snaps and skills on this. You keep posting links to your site each week when a little change has been made. Its obvious advertising and it makes it even worse (imho) that it seems to be your mates that are the people mainly replying.

If you're not sure about your website, go to a professional and get them to sort it. It is a business that you're running right?

Have you given any money to STW for the advertising, ie like people do on the classifieds?

the only guy i have met on this thread is bushwacked.
i see stw as my cyberhome as it has been the case for 9yrs or so.
i have answered questions for people,been top forum poster etc...over the years.
i want to ask on here as i value the feedback.

I think you're missing the point.

It doesn't matter if you're a top poster etc. I've been on here since pretty much year dot (under different names: but can give all of them to you if you want to check) and I've never dropped links of any sites that I've worked on.

I'm pretty sure if I looked hard enough as well, that I'd find instances of you complaining (in some way) about SC not so sly advertising and/or the number of times our dear Brant would post up new products looking for "advice". Isnt that what you're doing now? Under the guise of wanting feedback...

Jedi - I would also suggest, if you haven't already, to get something like Google Analytics on your site. It would tell you amongst other things:
[url= http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/ ]Google Analytics[/url]

How many times its visited across a day/month/year
What the most popular pages are
How people are getting to the site.

The above is only a very small example, but it would give you some insight into how your site is being used.

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In my experience of running a business I wouldn't say this was advertising - more market research and customer feedback - I'm sure some bonafide adverts will be on this site once everything gets sorted.

Maybe I'm slightly biased as I've riden with Jedi a couple of times but in this economic climate are we really going to complain about something like this and not give people a helping hand when starting something from scratch?

Vanilla - what do you do anyway, you're not a web designer are you??

thanks matt 😉

at Bush. Yep I run a web design agency.

What's that got to with it though? I offered free advice on his very first thread and this kind of project is massively too small for us to touch (the website that is, not the business: not trying to belittle the business in anyway). So I'm not saying this to try and get business.

Anyhoo, like the other guys, I'm not going to bump this anymore for Jedi. I wish him all the luck with the actual business.

I like that pretty much everything works even with noscript.

Last time I was doing anything with the web mailto links were considered unwise unless you want to drown in spam, but that may be different now.

Looks good, works well in Firefox, all the links and vids work for me. Only criticism is the white script looks a little blurred (if I'm being hyper critical like, but I can read it fine enough)

Good luck with the venture Jedi, hope it goes well.

lol@bump.
i'm sorting advertising with matt from stw so bumping it is isn't.

for all those who replied to my questions i thank you so much

I haven't met Tony* but I can't believe he's getting a hard time about asking for opinions on his new website (which is a business I believe he's started due to getting made redundant). Great use of the forum in my opinion.

For one thing, he seems like a genuine chap and would admit it if advertising was what he was up to!

(*he rode past our group yesterday is the nearest!)

Anyway. BUMP!

Can't understand why some people are knocking someone asking for some feedback.

Yep its abit of free advertising, but who cares. Brant seems to have done it quite alot with out any probs and trout is doing it too. Fair play to all of them I say

Bump Bump

I met Jedi-master Tony briefly yesterday at the Swinley ride and found a right character! Fun, eccentric and with a genuine, hard-core passion for biking. I only chatted to him for about ten minutes but came away inspired and seriously tempted to get some tuition (can he teach a pussy like me to jump...??)

Back to the original post: everything seemed to work fine for me. The site looks great with a good balance of photos of 'normal' riding and 'extreme' skills. If you want ultra-pickiness I'd just say that the "Road Skills" section that's under construction could do with a picture of someone on a road bike: might stir up more interest for roadies finding their way there. Make it a female cyclist and everyone wins! 😉

I find it odd that the cynics are slating this thread: the site's new and needs feedback. Even if it does advertise the site, so what? It's relevant and could benefit plenty of people on here.

Good effort, Jedi!

vanilla83 - Member
I think you're missing the point.

It doesn't matter if you're a top poster etc. I've been on here since pretty much year dot (under different names: but can give all of them to you if you want to check) and I've never dropped links of any sites that I've worked on.

I'm pretty sure if I looked hard enough as well, that I'd find instances of you complaining (in some way) about SC not so sly advertising and/or the number of times our dear Brant would post up new products looking for "advice". Isnt that what you're doing now? Under the guise of wanting feedback...

If you have met Jedi (Tony) then I'm shocked you could even think about giving the guy grief, if you 'only' know him from his on-line persona then I'm still shocked, I can't remember him writing a single nasty post.
He is always enthusiastic & encouraging, never negative that I have seen. His skill & commitment is beyond question, as far as I'm concerned STW should give him a banner ad for free as it's people like Tony that make this site the resource it is, and one of the best on the net if you ignore all the silliness.
I have been a member since the Go-far days, & I have met some cracking people through using this site, Jedi being one of the most memorable, & he even gave me coaching for free 😛

Oh, and as your offering, put up a list of ALL your aliases on here, including the ones before we had to login.

2unfit2ride, i have only just seen this post.
you hold me in too high regard but thank you for your kind words 🙂

I have been a member since the Go-far days

Well said

Tony, I did think before posting that it may come across as a bit 'brown tongue', it's not. I had a pause & then posted my view of you in what was, again in my view, a personal attack on someone that, as far as I can remember, has never said a bad word about anyone!
I on the other hand have had numerous hissy fits on here, called the bluff of lots, & been a downright asshole at times, you have a lot of self control, & thats why you can teach.

Now that said, I should add that some of the others I have met purely through the forum have also been absolutely great, equal, or better in some ways than you, I'm obviously not going to list them all, but if any of them were attacked in a thread then I would defend them all to the hilt.

As I said,

STW is one of the best on the net if you ignore all the silliness

Cheers.