Bronz

There were only 7 of them, you lot mustve only had like one each haha. Yeah, I had no idea you were you until I heard everyone yelling ‘Simpson’ every time you went for a swim

It's okay man, tent neighbours and all that haha.

No worries fella. Me and the missus made 16 sausages and 10 slices of bacon between us this morning so we had plenty spare.

That was me dude

Such an amazing weekend! Even with a totally busted ankle I rode bigger than I ever have before. The atmosphere, the people, the kit. It was just absolutely awesome. Huge huge thanks too all involved. I really hope there'll be the same again next year.

Don't bother, it's not that good: http://csswizardry.com/2010/05/thoughts-on-dribbble/ However: http://jackosborne.co.uk/articles/two-dribbble-invites-to-giveaway/

If I've learnt one thing from riding it's that you meet some f*cking cool people, so if you don't find me too insufferable on here and fancy saying hullo or whatever I'm the dude with a white Echo stock, a partially strapped up left ankle and a missus in tow. See you all there! Harry

I was thinking that!

You win! Always wondered (in a not too pervy way) who that was in your avatar.

Despite the quality, that was fantastic Nice to see some of the Leeds clips in there too Top stuff!

Cheers for the feedback, it is just an idea at the moment, that's why I made this thread, seems it's not a viable venture and therefore (unless people other wanna offer up anything constructive) it will get shelved. Cheers for your comments. Yeah but riders seeking and/or with sponsors ideally need their own web presence, I'm not talking any/every rider, I mean to those who might benefit a site, would they consider paying £25–50 for a decent one tailored more toward their own uses. To all: This is just market research. I spotted a potential gap in the market and decided to research it to see it'd be a viable venture. It's looking like it's not gonna be viable so thanks to everyone who gave feedback.

Feedback please, I'm just trynig to do some market research to decide whether this is gonna be a viable venture…

The whole 'tailored to trials' aspect.

Ah, apologies, I didn't read your statement as argumentative, nor was my reply meant to be Tailored in that it's going to house a varied amount of media (videos automatically get pulled out to the left of the content so as to make sure they get displayed nicely), various methods of displaying pictures. There's also tiny little stuff like different icons for post type. I guess when I say 'tailored to trials' what I really mean is 'tailored to displaying varied media such as video and images' which a lot of sites can do, but don't necessarily do so well. I also have a lot more work to do if there's enough interest. I need to take what people would like from a trials site and build that in, but no one's looking interested right now. Ah right, I did the same a few years ago, opted for Blogger over WP for sake of ease. Oh it'll also most likely be iPhone/mobile optimised but that's nothing to do with trials, that just a nice-to-have I guess.

Nice one, some good riding there! Keep at it and you're gonna be big news fella Lucky guy

To an extent, yes. However Wordpress is infinitely better than blogger IMO, plus this site's build will be tailored toward trials content, as opposed to any old whatever.

I should be, but I sprained my ankle on Monday night, it's kept me off work for two days and most likely off the bike at the weekend. Soooo gutted

Okay, as a very Work-in-progress preview I've screenshotted what I have so far, and in three different colours to show how simple it is to make your own colour scheme etc. Ignore the white bit at the bottom, that's just how the screenshot came out, and also ignore the right-hand side as that's not been styled yet. H

It is a customised WP theme, but tailored to trials (differing post styles for videos, photos etc). The theme isn't the one in the other thread either, that's another site altogether. Hosting etc would have to be down to the buyer though, yes. For £25 it's just not viable to do all that too (WP is such a simple install though) and I can advise on which hosts are easiest/best suited to WP in terms of DBs and stuff. And the ankle is slowly on the mend, thanks for asking

Yeah, but I'm talking along the lines of sponsored riders, or people looking for sponsorship, where they can establish their own brand. These would in no way compete with TF, they'd be totally separate. I'm not going to pick examples of riders' sites because that would look like I'm singling them out for being bad, but riders do have their own domains etc, just the sites on those domains aren't always that great… The majority of people would be happy with the forum, sure, but I'm investigating the market for more people to set up their own 'trials portfolio' if you like.

Hi all, quite a long one here but bear with me… Basically, pretty much every trials website you see is badly built, inconsistent, poorly designed and either barely up-to-date, or a pain to keep up-to-date. Nothing seems to look very good and a lot of sites are either built by people who don't know how to build websites, or agencies that aren't very good at building them. I know (of) a few web designers/developer on here who will tell you that building a site isn't easy, and it's a pretty complex art that isn't as simple as dragging-and-dropping and using paint. So yeah, basically the entire trials scene is filled with shoddy sites that don't do the riders or companies any justice. I'm talking company sites and riders' personal sites here. Anyway, I've been off work ill the last two days so I've started on two trials website projects, the first of which is a 'social' type site (i.e. one site, many users) and the second idea is as follows… Riders who are sponsored or are looking for sponsors often have their own sites where they can: + Blog about stuff + Post videos + Post pictures + Update comp results + Promote their sponsors + Direct potential sponsors to + Make a name for themselves (think of people who spend time on Damon Watson's site so they can see all his videos etc) Now, riders like this aren't likely to have the budget to go to an agency and get a site built properly, so they either get someone with a copy of HTML for Dummies to do one for them, or they have a stab at making their own. Neither will often end well (in terms of getting a properly built and decent site out of it). They avoid spending £1000+ on the cost a proper web developer taking the time to build something decent, but are often left with a site that is to the internet what a jellyfish is to trials. So, my idea: I'm a web developer. I can build industry standard websites. Now, if you were to come to someone like me and say 'Hi, yeah I want a site that I can blog on and add videos and pictures to…' you'd easily get quoted over a grand. But what I've done is got a pre-made website that gets built once and sold over and over (think of a CD, if you wanted a band to make a CD just for you and no one else it'd cost you a fortune, however they make the CD once, and sell it to thousands of people, so that CD only ends up costing you £10). But what I've done is one better than the CD analogy in that you can customise the colours and photos that make up the background and banner, so it's the same site, but each one looks different. It runs on a content management system (CMS) called Wordpress which allows you to add blog posts, images, pages, photos, links to friends' and sponsors' sites, you name it. That site, if you were to get it built solely for you, would cost well over a thousand pounds, but this one I'd retail at about £25–50 (not decided a price yet). So for £25–50 (the cost of a cheap night out) you have a professional standard website (i.e. better than 99% of other trials sites out there) already built that you can just start using straight out of the box to blog, upload pictures/videos etc. It's coded to the latest standards and extremely nice to use (anyone who's used Wordpress before will tell you how amazing it is!). Also, you can add user accounts, so a few mates could get a site between them and all have a user account where they can all blog and post up stuff from group rides and whatnot. So, based on all that, my question is basically the poll. EDIT: I shall try get a demo of the site up in the next couple of days, so you know what I'm selling haha

Thanks all, if I get a few more people tonight then I'll send the PMs out tonight too. Anyone under 18?

Come on people, no hard work involved. Just the chance to be one of the ‘decision makers’ on a new concept trials site…

Need more volunteers, all it is is trying out the basics of a new concept and giving me opinions and feedback and whatnot. I'll PM more details to those selected. H

Hullo all. I've been off work ill today so I've knocked up a quick site for trials riders. I'd just like a few (5) of you to volunteer to test it and lemme know what you think. Just post a reply here with: Your age Your PC/browser setup Internet experience (i.e. 'I build websites for a living' or 'I use the Internet to look up homework') Caveats: You must have pictures of you riding hosted on the Internet (Flickr, tinypic etc) You must be okay starting afresh with a new user account once the site goes live. All content you input will be deleted once testing is done. So if you fancy it just leave a reply. Cheers, H Preview: EDIT: This is nothing difficult, and it's to test the website, not you guys.