Glad people like the new look website The biggest improvement is actually the way it's coded - it's all dynamic now (like proper websites should be), so it's much easier to edit - meaning there's no excuse for it not being kept up to date (with the old one, each product page was a separate html file). But as Dinkalot said, more improvements are still to come - esp. the front page. Just been really busy lately, and my pc died. @Dagayaru: I'll do that tomorrow, since it's such a trivial thing to add. No time right now though. Any other suggestions, feel free to email me or Dink - can't promise to implement all your ideas, but I'll definitely consider them.
Reviews would be nice. It's hard to find them in the forum if you have to go through all these pages...
I don't know if we're allowed to copy reviews and put them on the DCB site (intellectual property laws or whatever - might have to get permission from everyone who posted a review?), but we could always link back to specific posts on this site, like we did previously. I'll try and do that in the next few days. It would be good to have a kind of form where people could post reviews (with drop-down boxes to select their specs/tension/skill level/etc), but I don't think I'm that good - don't know enough (any!) php/sql.
skill level is ok on a drop down. For string, tension, bp, and weight I think its ok to just enter it in. Too many variations.
Perhaps just the rough specs, like 4U/3U/2U, BP: 275-279/280-284/285-289/.....? The general characteristics (power, control, speed) don't change all that much with 5mm difference, and imop there wouldnt need to be more than perhaps 4 reviews per weight...there aren't that many to begin with And perhaps you could start with the newest rackets, as reviews about the T1/U1 are nice, but not exactly needed as both are discontinued...most people will want to know more about the currently available models (UPro, TPro, perhaps Precision).
Like I said, that part won't be happening any time soon, if at all. @J4ckie - I'll start with old models (pre-Precision) because I already collated all those reviews for the previous version of the website. And I'll include any review that is fairly well written, as different people are bound to have different opinions even of identical spec rackets (and we wouldn't want to appear to be cherry-picking only the most positive reviews).
Maybe you should just add a review button text field and have people sign up and add them. That should take care of IP rights. Also send confirmation email back to writer in order to activate the review to cover your butt. Reviews don't have to be very well written. I go to Newegg and just the number of positive reviews regardless of what was written can be good as well. I would like to see 1 well written reviews + 15 one liner reviews than just 2-3 well written reviews.
Ah, right, I forgot. In that case, including those reviews won't be much work, will it? At least you dont have to collect them =) If you can manage the workload, of course I'm in favor of including all reviews, I just thought it'd be a bit much...
Hi guys, I'm in the midst of finalizing orders for the Trinity Pro. If you are in Australia, please email me if you are interested. My email is pandapoweraus@gmail.com Cheers!
Calm down, the shipment will arrive at Dink's today, not Mark's^^ The shipment here will take another 2-3 weeks...
