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  • Pictures in posts ✔ Done
  • Main page should only have a small portion of the post ✔ Done
  • Ability to view only certain categories, split the site to topics ✔ Done
  • Better search (like google custom search ✈ In Progress
  • A modern theme for DDMS ✔ Done
  • Give the ability to readers to vote on a deal - ✋ Under Consideration
  • Make the webpage wider it should fit today's size monitors ✔ Done
  • Mobile site ✔ Done
  • Post list on sidebar ✔ Done
  • Add 1 thumbnail to the side of each title (If not adding pics to each post) ✔ Done
  • A "read more" arrow that expands the post content inline, not a new page ✈ In Progress
  • In the comments section: instead of Dan replying to 6 diff people in one post, it should be like facebook. each comment can have a reply✔ Done
  • Email notifications if someone replies to your comment ✔ Done
  • Ability to edit comments after posting, to correct typos or update info etc. ✔ Done (registered users only)

Progress Status Updated by Suave on 1/15 8:27am
« Last edited by Suave on January 15, 2017, 07:27:42 AM »

Poll

Do you think DansDeals.com (Main Site) has room to improve?

Yes, can improve a lot
Yes, but not that much
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Author Topic: DDMS Redesign Suggestions  (Read 47171 times)

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #60 on: April 04, 2016, 09:28:50 PM »
This also doesn't have to cost a lot of money to redevelop. There are excellent CMS systems and templates out there - templatemonster.com for example.

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #61 on: April 04, 2016, 10:09:42 PM »
What's so amazing to see a deal and not even be able to see a picture of the item of the deal?

I think we need circles and arrows as well.

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #62 on: April 04, 2016, 10:12:47 PM »
Do you not know what an SD card looks like? Would you like a photo stock picture of Las Vegas slowing the website loading speeds?
I wouldn't bring in the loading times here, after all we are in the high speed internet age not dialup. Having pictures that are properly resized would not make a noticeable difference on the page load for the majority of users.

Besides that, I agree that having pictures can be helpful for many cases, maybe not Los Vegas or SD cards, but many of the other deals I find myself clicking into Amazon just for the pic then again, perhaps that is your goal

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #63 on: April 04, 2016, 10:15:29 PM »
This also doesn't have to cost a lot of money to redevelop. There are excellent CMS systems and templates out there - templatemonster.com for example.

Not sure how templatemonster and excelent ended up in the same sentence - I'm sure it wasn't intentional.
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #64 on: April 04, 2016, 10:15:53 PM »
Do you not know what an SD card looks like? Would you like a photo stock picture of Las Vegas slowing the website loading speeds?
Having to open a page with 100+ deals in it is about the same as 10 with pictures

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #65 on: April 04, 2016, 10:21:11 PM »
I think we need circles and arrows as well.

"Click on the "Add to Cart" button to add the item to your cart!"

I wonder what would happen if DDMS implemented usable search.
You guys would whine that the site is too easy to use.

Give me a break.
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #66 on: April 04, 2016, 10:25:55 PM »
I'd think that if your split the deals section, flight deals section, and cc/points redemption section, you may get more followers that are dedicated to each specific topic. Right now, DDMS isn't known as a travel or cc blog, even though Dan is known as a travel blogger. I'd think you may attract more of the outside world while appealing  as a travel blogger if there's a section of the site completely dedicated to that.
You might also get some more twitter followers if you have a second twitter feed that only tweets flight deals (although that can easily backfire by losing current followers to the less profitable feed). Many people like following DD, but don't want to get bothered every 30 seconds with another amazon gold box deal. Obviously, that would likely defeat the purpose, as DDMS revenue doesn't come from Walmart or United glitches.
I would think, however, that a separate twitter feed for the cc posts (that much of the following deems completely irrelevant and glazes over) would make sense.

Obviously, you'd know more about this than I do; I'm just giving my uneducated thought.
Feel the same.

And you can always make an "all" section so that you can see all posts in one feed.

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #67 on: April 04, 2016, 10:35:03 PM »
I wonder what would happen if DDMS implemented usable search.
You guys would whine that the site is too easy to use.

Give me a break.

My comment was directed at the implied need for a picture of every deal, not at the redesign discussion in general.

I haven't yet said anything in this discussion for or against a new website, and that is because I don't have a clear bias in either direction. On the one hand I think that adding some functionality would be awesome (your suggestion of a usable search is a perfect example of that). OTOH I can't stand when sites I like change too much, so I'd be happy if it stays more or less the way it is as well.
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #68 on: April 04, 2016, 10:49:34 PM »
My comment was directed at the implied need for a picture of every deal, not at the redesign discussion in general.

I haven't yet said anything in this discussion for or against a new website, and that is because I don't have a clear bias in either direction. On the one hand I think that adding some functionality would be awesome (your suggestion of a usable search is a perfect example of that). OTOH I can't stand when sites I like change too much, so I'd be happy if it stays more or less the way it is as well.
You can say change when you have something and you change it around, but here you basically start from scratch...

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #69 on: April 04, 2016, 11:03:02 PM »
Once you're building your dream website you may as well throw in some improvements to the SEO
Lots of the know-nothing's consistently rank higher on google for news Dan breaks.
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #70 on: April 04, 2016, 11:23:20 PM »
I've said this before, considering it's a WP site it should be fairly easy to install a new theme... It won't change the way the site works so much but it will give it a fresh look... So long as you don't have too many plug ins on the site it won't take much modification

Not that simple. Would still take effort to update the new theme to look good.

I switched out my website and old blog the other day, my website switch from one theme to another took over 20 hours of work. My old blog took over 15 hours of work.

Now just image switching over DD. Not that simple. Would take a lot of work and time.
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« Reply #71 on: April 04, 2016, 11:30:37 PM »
Not that simple. Would still take effort to update the new theme to look good.

I switched out my website and old blog the other day, my website switch from one theme to another took over 20 hours of work. My old blog took over 15 hours of work.

Now just image switching over DD. Not that simple. Would take a lot of work and time.
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #73 on: April 04, 2016, 11:40:23 PM »
I think DDMS intentially maintains the look of a rough/hack/ yeshivish toilet paper deal site.
It is baked into the brand. If it becomes a modern fully comercialized site it will lose its uniqueness.

- I'm just playing devil's advocate. I personally would love a pretty new site, more organized and a good search bar..

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #75 on: April 04, 2016, 11:57:47 PM »
The search is the regular WP search.
Would you rather be punted to the site:dansdeals.com google search?
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #76 on: April 05, 2016, 12:09:26 AM »
The search is the regular WP search.
Would you rather be punted to the site:dansdeals.com google search?
how about
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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #77 on: April 05, 2016, 12:51:24 AM »
The search is the regular WP search.
Would you rather be punted to the site:dansdeals.com google search?
I happen to use that right now already. Only pain is that it includes results from the forums too so you really need to know the article before you search it.

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #78 on: April 05, 2016, 01:04:01 AM »
Not that simple. Would still take effort to update the new theme to look good.

I switched out my website and old blog the other day, my website switch from one theme to another took over 20 hours of work. My old blog took over 15 hours of work.

Now just image switching over DD. Not that simple. Would take a lot of work and time.
A lot of work and time does not equal the 100k number that is being thrown around here. Maybe the website can be given a facelift instead of an open heart surgery...

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Re: New DansDeals website!
« Reply #79 on: April 05, 2016, 01:06:14 AM »
Once I'm doing it, why put lipstick on a pig?
Go big or go home.
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