r1v3th3ad Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hey man, just joined, same user nameJust wanted to make mention of a recommendation:The next thing you should update/get up and running IMO would be the user review section, I would love to start placing shisha and coal reviews man.Site looks great so far, keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 It will be at least a month before User Reviews is ready.... lots and lots of programming for that section.New featureI added extra functions for the members. Now you can leave comments on any review/article with your profile picture next to it, see a list of all the members with their pictures and have the option to message them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canon Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 you should set up a premium member thingy. pay certain amount a year and maybe get a few bonus features? it might help even out the costs of the bandwith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 (edited) we'll see... I'd like to remain the site free for everyone.I'm just providing reviews and articles - Im not doing a forum or anything like that.... the hookahforum already does a good enough job.I'd actually like to do something if possible (have to work this out with maybe adrock?) to put my review summaries on the forum under reviews section and then on the hookahstop review pages have a link to the forum page with something like "Discuss this on our partner forum" Edited February 2, 2008 by RayVer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff_T Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 (edited) Really like the looks of it. Put a lot of work into it and it shows. Well done.Just noticed while in my profile, if you scroll over "Community" and click "About Community Builder" nothing happens. Not sure if this portion is not up or if its just me, but thought I'd throw that out there Edited February 2, 2008 by Jeff_T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 hmm yeah thanks for that... was working just a few mins ago but I was messing around with it.QUOTE (Jeff_T @ Feb 2 2008, 05:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Really like the looks of it. Put a lot of work into it and it shows. Well done.Just noticed while in my profile, if you scroll over "Community" and click "About Community Builder" nothing happens. Not sure if this portion is not up or if its just me, but thought I'd throw that out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 hey man, any chance of a chat section?I think that'd be coolanyone having problems...go to live chat, bored and smoking, go to live chat...I just always liked chats, this is the second forum community I've become a member of, the first is also recent(JLM for TF2)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 no real plans for that.... for now you can find me at the hookah forum chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUSEAN1 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 looks pretty sweet man, i'll def check it out again when it's complete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 just a heads up, I think the vid is great, but I'm having problems with the streaming too. Found that strange with my highspeed, never had that before.keep up the great work man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) UPDATEI was lookign at some encoding methods this weekend and finalized it down to using flash 8 double-pass encoding on the 2nd encoding and 8000kbit run on the 1st encoding....Check out the new video on the site... its actually larger, a bit higher quality but should in theory load considerably faster for everyone.http://www.hookahstop.com/content/view/64/86/Any feedback will be greatly appreciated Edited February 5, 2008 by RayVer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhishPhood Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) I think it may have been better small. Even though you upped the quality a bit you may have not compensated enough for the size adjustment. I think the quality looked higher with it the way it originally was. Although I wear glasses so dont take this to heart haha.Also, keeping it a tiny bit smaller should save you a ton on bandwidth once you really get up and going.Just my .02 Edited February 5, 2008 by PhishPhood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename067 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Looks pretty solid. Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 New VideoReview up with the new format... Let me know what you guys think of the new format. Smaller Video box and black backdrop (so you can see the smoke better)....and before anyone mentions it yes I know you can see the top left of the backdrop on the wall (this was fixed in later videos)http://www.hookahstop.com/content/view/68/86/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 awesome man, I just watched the wildberry review, not a problem...crystal clear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loanshark Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 QUOTE (RayVer @ Feb 9 2008, 02:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>New VideoReview up with the new format... Let me know what you guys think of the new format. Smaller Video box and black backdrop (so you can see the smoke better)....and before anyone mentions it yes I know you can see the top left of the backdrop on the wall (this was fixed in later videos)http://www.hookahstop.com/content/view/68/86/Great video only thing I would say is the opening and closing music is much louder then you voice level so I turned it up to hear you and got blasted at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 thanks ill try to correct that on the next video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymptom Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Good job on the site! Joomla kicks ass -- you using 1.5 yet? What content slider module is that on the front page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1v3th3ad Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Just thought I'd check in and see how the progress is goin man. I'm on a few times a day checkin for updates.Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayVer Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 yeah very slow on the updates.. I filmed some videos this weekend but since then I havnt done much as I've been sick. (I hate being sick). I have this whole chronic nasal allergy/congestion thing that caught up with me real bad this week. Canon and his g/f are coming this weekend and hopefully i'm better by then.On the bright side I'm almost done with all the videos for the fusion line. I've been testing Tonic samples these past 2 weeks and should start doing videos for that next week. Behind the scenes I've been working a lot on 2 things... one is the user reviews section which will be crazy once it's launched and the 2nd is a hookah directory with lounges, stores, etc broken up into every state. Each of these listings can have their own pictures, info and user comments/reviews. Thats another pretty extensive section in the works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sss8789 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I think it looks really good and I have not encountered any problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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