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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