Welcome to the new londonbikers.com site! We’ve been working until the wee hours for many, many nights to get this ready for you. The new site brings a new look and cutting-edge new features. The aim is to open the site up more, make it more interesting, show our content off better and hopefully make LB more popular!
New Look
The first thing to notice is there’s a new look, and new style for ‘londonbikers.com’. We wanted something that was brighter, stood out from the crowd more, was fresher and still had overtones of what it means to be a Londoner in it. We think we’ve hit all the targets on this one with it being red and black, the two colours of London, and the ‘ye olde london’ font used. There’s also a small tyre tread pattern in the letters.
Homepage
The homepage has been designed to show a summary of most of what’s going on within LB, with a search-box at the top to allow you to search the web via Google, search the site for older content, search our directory, or Amazon for any shopping needs you have. Using the Amazon feature here helps us to cover our costs, so please use it if you’re looking for something.
We’ve added a Google web search feature to the homepage because we’d like to encourage you to make LB your default browser homepage, so each time your browser loads up, LB shows. From here you can search the web directly. Many of us have a search engine as our homepage anyhow, so this is just an extension of that. If you’re unsure how to change your browsers default homepage, then hit the small red ‘home’ icon in the top-right of the navigation bar.
Better Content
LB isn’t just a (very cool) community, it’s also an online-magazine, a resource for finding out about biking online. We already publish all the latest motorcycle product, event and racing news before nearly everyone else, but we’ve decided to take things to the next level and go web-2.0 with how we present our content. So we’ve broken the news out onto a dedicated news page, with featured stories for items of interest so they don’t get burried in the river of news, and perhaps more importantly we’ve adopted tags for all our content.
Tags allow you to see all the stories for a particular subject, i.e. “MotoGP”, or “Ducati”. Each story and article now has tags assigned to them so you can find similar pieces. Each Tag has it’s own page on the site, so you can bookmark your favourite subjects, or even get an RSS feed for each tag to keep up on the latest happenings for your chosen subject! Both the tagging and tag rss feeds is cutting edge stuff, with LB leading the world in online motorcycle content.
Stories & articles now have hi-definition images shown in-line with the story as well, so you can easily see the quality images we’ve got.
New Features
The galleries have been improved to make them easier to navigate and show off the photos better. Each gallery now has a slideshow feature, so you can watch the photos scroll by without doing anything. You can also post our pictures on other websites using the ‘blog/post elsewhere’ feature on each image page. This will allow you to show a version of the image on another site and provide a link back to the image page.
There’s a ‘What’s on TV tonight?’ listing on the homepage so you can find out what motorcycle programs are on telly for the day/evening ahead, you can also see what the current road-watch postings are on the homepage. Perhaps something to check each morning and evening when going on a journey?
Insurance! It’s hard getting qoutes from a load of brokers/insurers come renewal time, so we’ve made life easier by offering a service which takes your details and then queries a load of the top insurers/brokers to find you the best qoute. From here you can buy a policy directly, which again, helps LB cover its costs, so please do use it.
Coming Soon
Now we’ve got a cool new look, we’ve got plans for a new range of clothing & merchandise, as well as stickers and other items. These will be coming shortly, so please bear with us whilst we get this sorted. There’s a big forum upgrade due as well shortly, and we’ll be updating other content on the website which is perhaps showing its age.
We’ll be getting a load of flyers, posters and cards made up to help promote LB, and we’ll be needing your help in distributing them and getting them in shop windows and the like, so please have a think about how you can help and when the time comes, please help us to help you!
Notes
LB is going from strength to strength, with more readers of the magazine, and more members signing up than ever before. We intend to make LB the biggest and best resource for biking in the south-east of the country, and we can only do that with your help, so please, spread the word and let every biker know about us and the good things we do, i.e. ride-outs, meets, trips abroad, our forum, the magazine, etc. Thanks to all you members, hosts, mods and contributors alike, it wouldn’t be what it is without your support!
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