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New And Improved Steel Valley Outdoors

Image by Lasse Havelund via Flickr

If you’ve been following along, you might have noticed a lot of changes recently, including:

A Cleaner, More Modern Look
Animated, Nested Menus
A Faster, More Responsive Site

Behind the scenes I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.9, which meant I had to upgrade to MySQL 5 and import the old database and repair it- Which [...]


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Steel Valley Outdoors Second Anniversary!

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Happy Birthday  Yet Again!
Well, We’ve made it through our second year, and Steel Valley Outdoors is still standing.
Two years ago, I was listening to the complainers on WKBN on the way home from work.It was a wet, cold March day, and the conversation was basically about how horrible our area [...]


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New Steel Valley Superstore

Just got Done Watching “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” With Alex.
Well, I didn’t get everything Done I wanted, But thought I’d make the formal Announcement Today to try to get some of that Great Black Friday Traffic. Hey, Life Destroys your 401K, Gotta make it up somehow.
I’m Launching a new Storefront. The Steel Valley Bookstore is [...]


Absolutely Nothing to do with Deer Hunting

At the risk of Screwing up my Google Ranking just as Deer Season is getting in full gear:

Oh Well.
Also: Look For Big changes coming soon. Over the last month, I’ve been working on SEO optimization and hardening Wordpress against hackers. I think I’m ready to re-introduce the Forums now that I’m getting steady search [...]


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OMBC Mountain Bike Championship at Mohican OCT 26

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Registration is open to all and is $25 on the day of the race. this is a punishing route, with the longest climb in Ohio. check it out on the OMBC website. Camping is available at the park.