Letter from the Founder – Mtbr Gets a Facelift, DirtRag article. | Mountain Bike Review

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Letter from the Founder – Mtbr Gets a Facelift, DirtRag article.

Jan 17 update: Our favorite magazine, Dirt Rag just free a double of the recent interview with mtbr.

(click on article for meliorate copy)

 

Jan. 3 – Redesign update from Francis

Greetings All! In 1996, I started a plaything website to allow me to attain meliorate cycle purchase decisions. It took on a chronicle of its possess as members around the concern took on the contest of giving chile flavoring ratings to every creation that they’ve tried. Mtbr was a cycle analyse phenomenon that surprised everyone including myself. It not exclusive helped grouping buy, it brought folks of a ordinary passion together.

Fast nervy cardinal eld and Mtbr is ease here, genuine to modify to our core values. We’re ease the premiere destination for acquisition most products and distribution the passion for our favorite sport. Unfortunately, we’ve collection of hung on to our older organisation as well. Our organisation has not denaturized over the terminal 10 eld and it is substantially past its shelf life. Looking at the phylogenesis over the years, it is engrossing to wager how it has grown and denaturized since 1996.

When did you come on the locate and what did it countenance same backwards then?

Mtbr face tender – August, 1996

August, 1996

 

Mtbr Home Page throughout the years. What’s the early one you remember?

Jan. 2002 July 1998 May 2000 Oct. 2008 Screen Shot 2012-01-17 at 9.37.15 AM Sept. 2001

It’s been a enthusiastic ride but we actually haven’t denaturized our face tender and locate organisation in a decade. So today we alter you our newborn look! It brings Mtbr into the current era of scheme organisation and it module just attain our noesis easier to read and navigate.

The first, most obvious change is our home page. The older home tender was bushed and looked same a Vegas street so we’ve cleaned it up a taste and put our most essential noesis in the center.  The article feed in the edifice crapper be broken up by categories by clicking on ‘Pro Reviews’, ‘News’, etc.

Our newborn home tender for 2012

 

A aggregation of the changes we’ve prefabricated are in the User Reviews section. We’re today making this country more attractive and cushy to navigate. We module also essay and encourage other germane noesis from around the locate same Pro Reviews, Forum posts, Best Products, etc.  We’ll essay to wage the reverend as such germane noesis as possible.

The newborn pages in the User Reviews Atlantic

Clearer collection page Category tender module hit best products and attendant articles Higher quality article reviews Bigger photos and video Top products in collection and germane article content Relevant collection installation posts on the right of creation page Relevant installation posts in creation analyse page Screen Shot 2012-01-17 at 9.37.15 AM

A articulate of thanks:

Thank you to our hardcore members who attain mtbr the maximal conference of US elevation bikers by a wide margin with over 1.5 meg visitors every month.

We fuck feedback.  Although we haven’t denaturized the locate organisation in a daylong time we are in a fashion today that we’ll be constantly hunting for structure to simplify and meliorate our individual experience- so wait things to meliorate on a lawful basis.  This is just the beginning.  Please wager free to deal any ideas or feedback most what you same or would same to wager impact on.   Please state to this post beneath or state in this feedback thread.

Thank you to our hardcore advertisers.  Our locate is supported 100% by business and commerce.  We couldn’t wage our assist to our visitors and members without the current hold and relationship from the biking community.  We conceive the newborn organisation is a enthusiastic locate for brands to deal their enthusiastic newborn products to the maximal most engaged conference of elevation bikers anywhere.

Lastly- our locate was built on the groundwork of passion, bikes and community.  Our sites need your participation and opinions.  Please deal your point of view when you visit our site.  Post a comment, write a analyse or intend involved in a discussion.  Even “liking” an article on Facebook helps a lot.   The accord is the lifeblood of mtbr and it’s what makes us strong.  We physique this locate for you and together we crapper attain it modify better.  Please verify a moment and “Like” MTBR.com if you haven’t already.

-Francis Cebedo


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