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Okay, so it's up! Still a lot of work to be done for completion, but I wanted to get something up for my self-imposed deadline of today. Most of what is incomplete should be up by early or the middle of next week.

I hope this will become the official site for the US footbag scene, much like they have in some of the European countries. Also, as this is primarily a news and footbag fan site, I'll be in need of content in the form of footbag news articles. So anyone who wishes to contribute these articles, pictures, etc. is free to do so.

I did this all on my own, so any positive feedback (props lol) would be greatly appreciated. :D If you have any ideas for the site, or would like to submit an article, feel free to PM me, or you can email me at [email protected] which is now a working email address. Thanks modified members for all of your past and future support!

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Post by mosher »

Looks great Chris!

I like the use of the Laver sole as the background image.

I imagined myself as someone who didn't know about footbag and I was interested and engaged.

My only suggestion is to spell 'Trickz' and 'Vidz' without the z's, it makes it look like the site was made by a 13 yearold in 1997. :lol:

But seriously, great start.
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The very first thing I noticed, on the entire page, was the "US footbag.com" at the top, with the player over the period as the bag. I am not sure if you could use that in any way, but for future designing/future pages, if you want to have something noticed I guess make it at the top left.

I think the graffiti style writing is a good choice, although if there is ANY chance you could make it, 10% less warped, I think it would be more pleasing to the eye. I don't think you can just say "<font> or something like that, so, yeah. I guess just another future suggestion.

I am not sure about anyone else, but when I see '404, page not found" stuff, it pushes a button inside from those terrible days of dial up, and internet explorer loading for 20 minutes and then saying "page not found". So, if you could make a 2 minute page just saying "under construction" under the "faq" link, and any other broken links, it might be a bit more subconciously pleasing.

Not having a completed player profile of Jorden made me cry a little, but I imagine that will come with time ;) Dave and Penske's I liked especially. More personal than most.

I'm not sure what connections you have with Freedom footbags, but it looks like you took their Abshire bag picture, but I assume since you are selling the sandbags as well you have their permission.

On that topic, with pictures I notice the background doesn't flow. I am pretty sure if you make it a GIF, you can make it transparent. That would make it look more, well, flowy. If you are designing a website I assume you have something like photoshop/fireworks/gimp/whatever to do the web graphics.

The big white spaces for text are self explanitory. I'm sure when you have more time, then you'll make all of those things come together.

At the bottom of the pages, if you could have Something like a bar, like, the bar at the top with "us footbag / newsletter", it seems to give my mind more of the "finished" / "professional" feel to things. Since the US footbag logo is popped a little, and on the left, maybe you could put it on the right on the bottom. Meh.

I hope that didn't come accross as "Your site has nothing good on it". I just know that when you do something yourself, you often miss alot of the things that the public see's, "beta testing" so to speak. So, I gave some of the complaints I had.

Anyway, I hope that you can use at least one of my suggestions. The site looks promising, I'm sure it can only get better with time.
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link plz.
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http://usfootbag.com

i like the site. this is just a suggestion, but maybe you could add a section that gives you what clubs are in what states... that way if someone were to stumble onto the site, they could see what is in their area. maybe also a link to .org, im sure steve would love that.

and maybe im wrong, but didnt clavens win some other tournies? nyj?
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I have not seen 404s. Link is: http://www.usfootbag.com . All of the info for dave's page was given to me by dave :)

Gonna go to the Padres game tomorrow. ttyl guys.
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Post by cammel »

Why is Jorden in the pros section? I mean he rocks at footbag and all, but hes not quite a US footbagger. Dont really care just thought it was weird.
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Post by ObArA'BaRs »

might as well just call in nafootbag.com(North America(n)).
Im sure the Canadians would like the site too. :)
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Yeah, personally I think Jorden should be on the site because he's a really strong part of the US scene, and competes in a lot of US tourneys. It's like the PGA that way. There's a lot of guys that are on the PGA that aren't American, even though it's primarily an American golf tour.

I'm going to get some more stuff published today, I apologize for launching the site a little prematurely. I'm even waiting on paypal so I can accept payments. It'll smooth out next week though.
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Post by kyle »

I love how the forum is modified.in :D
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You do know that PGA is an acronym, and the A is not for American, right ?

I would say that is different than what you have, but I could just be biased because I don't like you.
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Post by C-Fan »

Its a good start. I think in some places it looks like footbag is trying too hard to be hip, such as the "z"s at the end of words, and the fonts being a bit overly jazzy. I like the writing, but in some places its rather repetitive:

"he won Intermediate routines, becoming the intermediate Champion of that event."

Stuff like that.

Good first draft.
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woah, thats hawt man, sick!
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Sweet! Thanks Chriss.
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Post by david »

people that should be added:

lon smith
peter irish
scott bevier
evan gatesman
nick landes

if i forgot someone, sorry. i think this list represents the best U.S players. made this off the top of my head.
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Hey, thanks dave. I need some more input since I'm relatively new to the shred scene. The entire site will change dramatically over the course of it's history, as Ken said this is merely a first draft.

I also don't have a ton of experience in web design, making the process all the more laborious. If anyone at all feels that they have a lot of web experience and would like to fool with any of the pages, they can feel free to PM me and I'll send them the files to mess around with. Even if you don't have web experience, and would just like to write an interesting article for the site, that's cool too :)

I will add those people, and I was also thinking of adding like a footbag Legends profiles page. That would be sweet!

Thanks again guys for your encouragement and support!
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On a side note, I've decided it would be fun to get trick demos from some pro players, and maybe some intermediate players as well for the Tricks section. If you'd like to participate in this, PM me to reserve a move that you'd like to demo, and then email your vid to: [email protected].
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david wrote:people that should be added:

lon smith
peter irish
scott bevier
evan gatesman
nick landes
Ken Somolinos (I completely misspelled your name, sorry!)
Will Digges
I added some people... :)
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Post by yyz »

Great start but you may need to re-name it if you can't get some net and golf players too join. Won't be too bad maybe U.S. FOOTBAG FREESTYLE.COM
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yyz wrote:Great start but you may need to re-name it if you can't get some net and golf players too join. Won't be too bad maybe U.S. FOOTBAG FREESTYLE.COM
Yeah definitely. While you're at it, you may also want to send a mail to M. Blouchi who, as far as I'm concerned, has completly disregarded the freestyle, net and golf aspects of footbag on his site: http://www.footbag.com
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