Website and Forums Update

[Hidalga]

Volunteering...

 

and editing. It's visible and works. Nice!

[Mainiac]

Bla bla a bla... did a visual check, and edit button is back. Thank you.

 

My keyboard still covers my response unless I turn my Fire sideways

[topgun2]

MO - please tell me that the picture was taken inside your house and you have no plans for going outside any time soon!

 

Bill

[DavidS]

Jason and his team should be congratulated on the new web site. The colors are pleasing, and the photos on the main page are really great, especially Phil Andrews’ stunner of the Ollie next to a campfire with a kayak on the lake!

 

 

They did a great job with the drop down menus, really increasing functionality for a potential buyer exploring the web site for the first time

 

And, for us Forum users I see that they have just added Recent Topics from the Forums drop down menu. Thanks!

 

I have two suggestions to improve the site. As a current owner who mostly uses the Forums, I accept the fact that the web site’s primary purpose is marketing to new potential owners. Two years ago when I was thinking about buying an Ollie, Wincrasher’s blog and video were very helpful to me. The fact that these were made by a current owner (I know, he subsequently sold the trailer), was very influential, compared to a video made by the manufacturer. There are now a bunch of other videos and blog posts, all made by owners. My suggestion is that the Why Oliver drop down menu include one more menu item, maybe called Owner Generated Content. (This is not the smoothest name, and I hope someone will come up with a better one.) This would lead to a web page that would link to Owner Generated Content, including videos by Buzzy, G&J Roaming and Rolling, Mountainborn, Reed Lukens and Wincrasher. Other videos? It should also link to the blog posts by Wincrasher and SuperSizeLife. There are probably other blog posts. Are there any legal / permissions issues here?

 

Second, I would like to suggest the web page provide links to Oliver Owners’ Blogs. My idea is to have another item under the Forums drop down menu called Oliver Owners’ Blogs. (Better name anyone?) I have stumbled across the blogs of Mendofrank, Mike and Gerri, and SuperSizeLife and I have enjoyed them. I am pretty certain there are other blogs out there by Oliver owners, and I would like to read them. The Oliver Owners’ Blogs page could simply have a short description of each blog along with links. Again, are there legal / permissions issues here? The Oliver Forums have been a great community for sharing useful information, and I think these blogs would enhance that community.

[Commanche]

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse here, since I brought this up a few years ago. I would like to see a option where you could add your city and or state under your name. Often times based on a persons post, it's nice to know where they are from, it may put their post in prospective. Most forums have this option.

[JWalmsley]

Maybe I’m beating a dead horse here, since I brought this up a few years ago. I would like to see a option where you could add your city and or state under your name. Often times based on a persons post, it’s nice to know where they are from, it may put their post in prospective. Most forums have this option.

 

We can look into doing that. We need some time though - we have tons of work going on right now still fixing bugs in the forums/website from the migration.

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

[Mainiac]

How do we get rid of the blue unread box..?

 

Found out. Logout. When logging back in it is gone. Now to get it to logout...

[Try2Relax]

How do we get rid of the blue unread box..?

 

Ha! That was my first thought upon opening the page. That blue is awful, completely against the pleasing color palette, maybe a black box with gold or white letters..

[ShallowGal]

Perhaps it's a coincidence, but one of the most wonderful side-effects of the new Oliver site is the Oliver advertising on every website I go to and the game apps on my phone. I just might buy one of those sexy trailers!

[JWalmsley]

Jason and his team should be congratulated on the new web site. The colors are pleasing, and the photos on the main page are really great, especially Phil Andrews’ stunner of the Ollie next to a campfire with a kayak on the lake!

They did a great job with the drop down menus, really increasing functionality for a potential buyer exploring the web site for the first time

And, for us Forum users I see that they have just added Recent Topics from the Forums drop down menu. Thanks!

I have two suggestions to improve the site. As a current owner who mostly uses the Forums, I accept the fact that the web site’s primary purpose is marketing to new potential owners. Two years ago when I was thinking about buying an Ollie, Wincrasher’s blog and video were very helpful to me. The fact that these were made by a current owner (I know, he subsequently sold the trailer), was very influential, compared to a video made by the manufacturer. There are now a bunch of other videos and blog posts, all made by owners. My suggestion is that the Why Oliver drop down menu include one more menu item, maybe called Owner Generated Content. (This is not the smoothest name, and I hope someone will come up with a better one.) This would lead to a web page that would link to Owner Generated Content, including videos by Buzzy, G&J Roaming and Rolling, Mountainborn, Reed Lukens and Wincrasher. Other videos? It should also link to the blog posts by Wincrasher and SuperSizeLife. There are probably other blog posts. Are there any legal / permissions issues here?

Second, I would like to suggest the web page provide links to Oliver Owners’ Blogs. My idea is to have another item under the Forums drop down menu called Oliver Owners’ Blogs. (Better name anyone?) I have stumbled across the blogs of Mendofrank, Mike and Gerri, and SuperSizeLife and I have enjoyed them. I am pretty certain there are other blogs out there by Oliver owners, and I would like to read them. The Oliver Owners’ Blogs page could simply have a short description of each blog along with links. Again, are there legal / permissions issues here? The Oliver Forums have been a great community for sharing useful information, and I think these blogs would enhance that community.

 

Thanks! We have been working hard on it for many months and it is a breath of fresh air to finally see the new site live.

 

As far as using other people's copyright/protected content on our site that is probably not ever going to happen, it would require their consent/permission. Another problem facing would be getting flagged by search engines for duplicated content, considering they have the exact same blog post on their site and it's being indexed by search engines. This would have a negative effect for our website.

 

We could be in the future - open to well written, SEO keyword optimized, Oliver specific, Oliver components and/or traveling specific blog posts that are written just for Oliver Blog Pages and not being used anywhere else.

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

[DavidS]

As far as using other people’s copyright/protected content on our site that is probably not ever going to happen, it would require their consent/permission. Another problem facing would be getting flagged by search engines for duplicated content, considering they have the exact same blog post on their site and it’s being indexed by search engines.

Jason, I was not suggesting that Oliver host this content, but rather to simply provide links to content on YouTube, or WordPress, or some other site. I think that this would not be a problem for your two concerns about having other people’s copyright/protected content on your site, or for being flagged by search engines for duplicate content. Is there a problem if you just link to outside content? The forum currently contains links to YouTube, blogs, and Amazon.

 

I think for links to blogs, it would probably be good to get permission. My 2 ¢ worth.

[Try2Relax]

Just posted a reply, area at top shows offline in red, area at bottom shows online in gold...

[JWalmsley]

Just posted a reply, area at top shows offline in red, area at bottom shows online in gold…

 

@try2relax - Can you show me a picture of what you are looking at? I am not seeing an Online in Gold?

 

Thank you,

 

Jason

[Overland]

Thanks for shading the sticky posts - that was getting a bit annoying with so many of them floating up there.  And the blue text is far easier on the eyes.

 

The blue/gold is a nice color scheme, so I hope you guys stick with it for more than a few months, lol.  When I was photoshopping graphics ideas for or trailer, one of my favorites was a simple blue & gold stripe down the side.  In the end, it was a bit too conservative for us, but as a 'corporate' color scheme, I think it would work well for Oliver.