Bomber Launches new Website!

[fin]

OK, sorry for the up and down today with the site everyone. But we just spent the day launching the news site and it looks great! This was along time coming and a pile of work on our side but it needed to happen.

As always, we invite anyone to submit articles and content to us as this is a community site. No promise we'll publish, but like to see more input from you guys.

Please take a look and tell us what you think, good and bad. And if you spot any bugs or something not right please let us know.

[John E]

There were some hiccups at first but I like the new website.

Good work!

[0815-fahrer]

OK, sorry for the up and down today with the site everyone. But we just spent the day launching the news site and it looks great! This was along time coming and a pile of work on our side but it needed to happen.

As always, we invite anyone to submit articles and content to us as this is a community site. No promise we'll publish, but like to see more input from you guys.

Please take a look and tell us what you think, good and bad. And if you spot any bugs or something not right please let us know.

Congratulations on the new site... it´s a charme... a 10 Years leap forward...

I´ll be sharp and testing tomorrow




Edit: what do you mean with: "No promise we'll publish, ...... " are posting rules changed?

[bobdea]

NICE!
good work!

[Steve Prokopiw]

Easy on the eyes and good first impression when seeing the front page.Nice.

[digger jr]

Nice Job!
Although in picture #2 it looks like anybody could look that good on such Hero Snow .

[Emdee406]

Nice clean modern looking layout, a lot less cluttered/busy. Well done!

[scrutton]

The shopping cart is now much more tempting...

[McDougall]

Fin,
Nice looking home page, especially that guy ripping up that untracked cord! He must be a Hero...
McDougall
I just make it look easy...

[Mellow Yellow]

Somethings fishy.... Who's that old fart in the second picture on the home page?

My only feedback.... the site needs more Trent.

[b0ardski]

the old site was looking/feeling,,, well, old.
The new home page is way friendlier and more inviting, much better for luring the masses over to the dark side
The whys and how tos (articles) are more prominent and everything seems more intuitive.
Active threads on the home page was a great move.
Kudos Fin

[icebiker]

I like it...especially since there's much more white in the backgrounds...looks brighter and, well, snowier Don't forget to change the BOL tag line on the forum page to match the one on the home page

Congrats!

[Dave Winters]

Love the new layout! Good work!!

[Miltie]

Fin and Michelle, Nice new site! Like the updates. The Store functions including "shopping bag" and "continue shopping" are much improved. Thanks for your hard work and keeping the stoke for Apline riding alive. You guys rule! Tom

[Michelle]

The shopping cart was a big part of it, and a huge upgrade. I also like the groomer background - makes it feel more like a carving site than a shopping site.

Like Fin said we're still working out the bugs so please bear with us if something doesn't work properly, or there's a mistake on your order. It will take a little while to realize all of them.

Thanks for your continued support! Carve on!

[carvedog]

The shopping cart was a big part of it, and a huge upgrade. I also like the groomer background - makes it feel more like a carving site than a shopping site.

Like Fin said we're still working out the bugs so please bear with us if something doesn't work properly, or there's a mistake on your order. It will take a little while to realize all of them.

Thanks for your continued support! Carve on!

All in all, I love the new site. I am not a huge fan of the Comic Sans font used on the main navigation buttons.... but everything else is right on.

Obviously you still need a link back to the commercial site that sits at the top of the forums. Pretty sure that was always there, cuz it's always been real easy to go drool over the TD3 or SW or .......

Anyway. When is this forum going to get "Like" buttons?

Thanks.

[jp1]

just an Old Fart that shuns change (took 6 years to figure out the old board, and only knew 1/2 of it) but I'll try to navigate as I'm sure it is a change for the better.

It looks like I am in the minority, but to me the colors all seem to blend (not enough Pop) specially the light blue.
I miss the italic and bold options for messages, I thought they were here the other day and I see others have used them, can't get the smileys to work either, duh ?

Love the Groom, that will be my next custom Topsheet ! 2 Days to SES (and a fresh batch on the way) but who's counting ? - jp1

[nekdut]

I would have commented in the new forum launch thread but that has since been locked.

In-line links and attachments no longer open in a new tab and/or window like they used to by default, but now open in the same tab as the forum messages. Can the old functionality be retained?

[carvedog]

Looking on the main bomber site store for fintech heels. I can find all the parts listed separately but the heels aren't under boots or accessories or....

FYI.

[Michelle]

They are under Binding Accessories

http://bomberonline.3dcartstores.com...ries_c_25.html

I know it will take a little while for people to find stuff, but hopefully this is a better organization than before.

[carvedog]

Never would of thought to look under binding accessories. Maybe they should be listed under Boot Accessories too???

[www.oldsnowboards.com]

Couple items:

Forum

When attempting to "unsubscribe" from a notice email I get this message.

Invalid Redirect URL (http://sz.ev.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail?app=mail

not sure , but it looks like a conflict with comcast? I changed a few things in the line for security.

[kmartshopper]

Very possible it's me, but is the search function having problems on the new site?
If I search in for-sale for 'catek', I get 12 results back to 2003. That just can't be
Searching for BTS in the whole site gets me 0 hits... that may have always been a limitation (3 chars?), I can't say.

[scrutton]

Very possible it's me, but is the search function having problems on the new site?
If I search in for-sale for 'catek', I get 12 results back to 2003. That just can't be
Searching for BTS in the whole site gets me 0 hits... that may have always been a limitation (3 chars?), I can't say.

Yes search mechanism sucks. You also now can't specify particular forums to search on eg 'Classifieds' like you used to be able to.

[NWboarder]

I concur with the search feature having lost all sensibility from the old style. For example, I just searched "Volkl" and 7 recent threads popped up and the rest are 2003 and later. Also, more importantly and directly related to Bomber, I searched "TD2" and NOTHING came up... Im no IT guy but that cant be right... or good.

[www.oldsnowboards.com]

http://www.bomberonline.com/store/ link from SES page is a broken link.


Links to get back to store or main site from Forum?

Bomberonline link at the bottom right of this page = broken link.

[Keyser Soze]

Obviously, I'm thankful for Bomber, and all the work you folks do. Not to complain, but I was just wondering if the issue with the search function, or missing posts, is going to be looked into. If not, that's fine, it's just that there was a lot of great information that is no longer available.

[carvedog]

Patience Keyser. Pretty sure the Bomber boys and girls are rather busy this week. They should be back at the grindstone on Monday or so and start taking care of those who didn't make it to Aspen shortly after.

[Keyser Soze]

Patience Keyser.

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean I expected it to be done anytime soon. I just wanted to mention, as feedback, that I thought it would be something worth looking into. I haven't actually visited Bomber in a little while, so this is the first time I see all of the changes.

[lafcadio]

Fin and crew, congrats and nice job on the updated site!

I just noticed while rereading some of the tech articles there's a broken link on the Practice Drills page. Under the Triple turns drill there's a description of *Cross-under with a broken link to another article:

*Cross-under turns are described in this article. The picture to the left shows a nice sequence of a cross-through turn, which blends cross-over and cross-under techniques. The rider is low in the carve, then rises up only enough to bring the knees up and flick the board onto the new edge. The board crosses under the hips while the hips cross over the board - hence "cross-through". Smooth.

The article links to:

http://www.bomberonline.com//articles/cross_over.cfm

which doesn't exist. I think the correct link should probably be:

http://bomberonline.com/resources/Te...oss_under.html

Keep it up and a big THANK YOU to all your hard work!

-Michael