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 I didn’t know when I started the process. I took the opportunity to use what I learned to upgrade my host to PHP 5 also- giving me access to a new generation of plugins.
In the next couple of days, I hope to really begin to work on creating a community site: I’ve started some forums up again, but this time hope they’ll be better integrated into the main site. Take a minute to look around- I’ll be adding to them as time permits this weekend and hope to have groups for all the major components.
Also, if you check out the sidebar, you’ll see a neat text box over there on the right at the bottom. This will allow you to post your own stories right to Steel Valley Outdoors. Yeah, I know. I’m asking for it. But I just don’t have time to do it all myself. If you have an event or activity you want to promote, you can add it directly. I’ll have to moderate it, but when it posts you’ll reach upwards of 100 locally active readers instantly, with about another 100 each day it’s on the front page, plus it’ll be indexed by Google in a page rank 3 site. Sweet, huh? And all for free.
How Can I Do it for free? Well, Although this is obviously a hobby and labor of love, I Do make a Little bit from ads and affiliates. However, I’ve never been able to drive traffic to the store. I’m looking at upgrading to a more professional format and should be rolling it out soon.
What Does this mean to regular visitors? Not Much. I Do want to hear from you. All too often it feels like whistling into the wind. Let me know what you like, What you don’t like and what you need from this site. I’m Youngstown Tough. I can handle it.
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