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Skateboard.com Revamps and Relaunches
So I checked out the new revamped Skateboard.com website and I must say that it’s looking good. The layout is super nice and there are tons of new community features that have been added. There are a lot of other skate websites just like it but you can never really have too many skateboarding websites. It seems like these days, as websites push toward more social media features, you see a lot of the same concepts repeated over and over again, no matter what skate site you go to. But that’s just kind of the way it is. Trick tips, photos, user-generated videos, blogs, and forums – it’s all kind of the same when it comes to community sites like this.
One huge bonus that makes them standout is their domain name. I mean seriously, wow what a site name to pull off. I guarantee they have people logging onto there website that weren’t even trying to find it to begin with. Just based on people typing in ’skateboarding.com.’ To be honest with you, the first time I ever viewed skateboard.com it was out of shear boredom. I seriously just thought to myself about typing skateboard.com in my browser just to see what would pop up.
Props to Skateboard.com for a fantastic looking site and the new addition of all those community features. It seems to be really updated and laid out very well. The question is what makes this site, besides the fancy domain name, different from the rest. There’s already tons of skate communities I can join that have a lot more activity going on. It’s going to take awhile for them to build up the user base but it’s a site I’ll keep my eye on in the meantime.
Posted by Ruben 'Studdard' Najera on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Skateboarding.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Everyone is going community now, I think it is a good move on Skateboard.com to go that route.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Ah, Another Wasserman/411/Sportnet property fully rears it’s head with the assorted mess of community features slapped on a screen for anon existent community to embrace. No tone, no voice…just a shart of content.
You would think a bunch of MBAs and guys making an assload of cash off the agent side in their Santa Monica offices would be able to embrace the phrase: “leverage existing technologies”.
Why try to recreate an audience when you can easily engage it in one of several prevailing social networking sites?
owning your own property is great bu this plan outside of action sports would be ejected twenty times over.
Weak attempt at best.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 pm
The site has gone downhill since Todd Swank cashed in thanks to Casey Wassermans rich old man. No-one true to skateboarding has anything to with this site and since Ortiz and Ricky were dropped it deserves for skaters to move on.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Skateboard.TV is the new bomb! Out next month.
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