01-06-2006, 11:51 PM
We have a number of items to review and all are really great news!!!
First and foremost I wanted to let everyone know we have asked Pat Scouten (TubeDude) to help administer these boards and he has graciously excepted. We are very excited to have someone with his personal, professional and fishing experience as an addition to our Administrators. I have spoken with Pat and he is eager to work with DaveT and all the mods to help administer this site. He has some great ideas to help propel these boards to the next level and we'll be working together to keep these boards the best stop online for fishing information. If any of you have any ideas, comments, complaints or suggestions please feel free to PM Pat, myself or Dave.
We have launched the new BFT Gift Shop and will be adding links from the forum shortly. The first batch of items we ordered have come in and are now available on the gift shop at [url "http://www.dabigfish.com"]http://www.dabigfish.com[/url] we have many more items that will be coming in later this month and early next month and are very open to suggestions anyone has of items they would like to see added. Please be advise that although we have tested the store (and everything appears to be A-OK) we know there WILL BE BUGS we missed and apologize in advance to anyone who experiences any problems. We are offering PICTURE BOUNTIES ON CERTAIN STORE ITEMS that users will receive store vouchers for product pictures that we use (i.e. we need product pictures of users wearing gear that we want to use for the item their wearing. If a user buys a long sleeve shirt and sends in a picture with them wearing the shirt AND A FISH in the picture and we use it for the product we will issue them a voucher for the cost of the item they are wearing). Obviously at this stage where we do not have any pictures of the new gear with members wearing it and sporting a fish, it is the best time for users to take pictures and submit them ASAP. Basically we will be trying to get the best picture possible for every product so just because a product has a user with a fish on the product page doesn't mean we won't be trying to still get pictures for that product. This will be an ongoing endeavor.
This month will be a big month for change at the message board and we will have some down time. I will try to advise prior to down times but please be advised it may not always be foreseeable. We will be upgrading they grey navigation bar in the top of the forum sometime this month. Although it may change as we measure feasibility and ETA of new features we anticipate the following new links:
Photo Gallery- This is in design now and most likely will be the first new feature. For a general idea of how this gallery will work please visit our motocross site at:
Product Reviews- Coming Soon
Chat- This is up and running now but will be added to the forum navigation soon.
BFT Instant Messenger- Coming Soon
Games- We have signed an agreement with 2 sponsors to develop a series of BFT CO-Sponsored Internet Fishing games that will also interact with the forum. These are very high quality games, far better then any I have seen online. The first 2 will be Bass and Marlin Fishing. We plan on doing 8 and if you have preference of which species you would like to see, please make your suggestions. After all eight are completed we plan on doing a downloadable version that will include all species and extra features.
Thank you All, and please drop by the forums today.
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First and foremost I wanted to let everyone know we have asked Pat Scouten (TubeDude) to help administer these boards and he has graciously excepted. We are very excited to have someone with his personal, professional and fishing experience as an addition to our Administrators. I have spoken with Pat and he is eager to work with DaveT and all the mods to help administer this site. He has some great ideas to help propel these boards to the next level and we'll be working together to keep these boards the best stop online for fishing information. If any of you have any ideas, comments, complaints or suggestions please feel free to PM Pat, myself or Dave.
We have launched the new BFT Gift Shop and will be adding links from the forum shortly. The first batch of items we ordered have come in and are now available on the gift shop at [url "http://www.dabigfish.com"]http://www.dabigfish.com[/url] we have many more items that will be coming in later this month and early next month and are very open to suggestions anyone has of items they would like to see added. Please be advise that although we have tested the store (and everything appears to be A-OK) we know there WILL BE BUGS we missed and apologize in advance to anyone who experiences any problems. We are offering PICTURE BOUNTIES ON CERTAIN STORE ITEMS that users will receive store vouchers for product pictures that we use (i.e. we need product pictures of users wearing gear that we want to use for the item their wearing. If a user buys a long sleeve shirt and sends in a picture with them wearing the shirt AND A FISH in the picture and we use it for the product we will issue them a voucher for the cost of the item they are wearing). Obviously at this stage where we do not have any pictures of the new gear with members wearing it and sporting a fish, it is the best time for users to take pictures and submit them ASAP. Basically we will be trying to get the best picture possible for every product so just because a product has a user with a fish on the product page doesn't mean we won't be trying to still get pictures for that product. This will be an ongoing endeavor.
This month will be a big month for change at the message board and we will have some down time. I will try to advise prior to down times but please be advised it may not always be foreseeable. We will be upgrading they grey navigation bar in the top of the forum sometime this month. Although it may change as we measure feasibility and ETA of new features we anticipate the following new links:
Photo Gallery- This is in design now and most likely will be the first new feature. For a general idea of how this gallery will work please visit our motocross site at:
Product Reviews- Coming Soon
Chat- This is up and running now but will be added to the forum navigation soon.
BFT Instant Messenger- Coming Soon
Games- We have signed an agreement with 2 sponsors to develop a series of BFT CO-Sponsored Internet Fishing games that will also interact with the forum. These are very high quality games, far better then any I have seen online. The first 2 will be Bass and Marlin Fishing. We plan on doing 8 and if you have preference of which species you would like to see, please make your suggestions. After all eight are completed we plan on doing a downloadable version that will include all species and extra features.
Thank you All, and please drop by the forums today.
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