Dirtbag Deals

I've built a new feature called Dirtbag Deals, which you can link to from the header, one of the promos that sometimes appears next to areas and routes, or the home page.

It shows climbing goods that are on sale from over a dozen online stores. If you make a purchase after clicking a link on our site, Mountain Project gets a small slice, so I'm hoping this is a benefit to all of us (nobody likes ads, but these are as good as I can think of, and MP has bills to pay).

Hope you enjoy, and let us know what you think.

nice work!

you could add backcountrygear to the menu for your bots if it's not already in there:

backcountrygear.com/catalog…

Thanks for the link berl. For this to benefit Mountain Project, I can only include stores that participate in an affiliate program (we're using avantlink.com/).

If any of you happen to work at a shop and want to see you stuff on our site, sign up with AvantLink and let me know.

Kick ass!!! You guys really do some great work with everything on this site.

Thanks,

T-Bob

Looks cool and hopefully I can buy some stuff through these links to help benefit MP.

A few suggestions from looking at it as 11 pages of deals is a lot to wade through.

More Filter Options:
- Filter by Store
- Filter by Gear Type (Shoes, clothes, bags, etc)

You should also maybe put a tagline that states that purchasing through these links directly benefits mountain project just so that people get that happy-tingling feeling knowing that they are helping out.

I'd love to be able to filter/sort by gear type, but our data feeds just don't have good enough info (I spent a long time trying). I've also noticed a couple broken images and at least 1 invalid price. It's really the store's problem, but we'll do what we can to avoid them.

I might add soft goods (climbing/hiking/mountaineering related clothing), and I would be able to separate that stuff.

Hey Nick, I don't mind the ads but do you mind fixing it so that the descriptions for pictures are above the ads. Currently they are below the ads so you are forced to scroll all the way down to read the descriptions.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt Toensing wrote:Hey Nick, I don't mind the ads but do you mind fixing it so that the descriptions for pictures are above the ads. Currently they are below the ads so you are forced to scroll all the way down to read the descriptions. Thanks, Matt

+2

+3 and more.. good idea.. poor placement

Maybe you can add an option to minimize the ads.

Jake D. wrote:+3 and more.. good idea.. poor placement

+all I've got.
I use the route list to the left of what I am reading very frequently. Now it is 'gone' without scrolling- which makes clicking through routes on a given formation page really mouse-intensive and slow.

Yucky. Please move it. The stuff that used to be there belonged there.

On the photo pages, I moved it below the photo titles - good suggestion.

On the area/route pages, the route navigation is actually no lower than it used to be, at least on pages that had an advertisement (which is all of CO, and about 25% of the rest of the world).

Tony, I believe the rearranged links (nothing was removed) make more sense where they are now. The left column is now purely navigation, and area information is all contained together in the main box on the top right.

Nick has a bug. There should only be one ad, not 11 tiled.

He's gone now but will fix it later tonight!

Nick Wilder wrote:On the photo pages, I moved it below the photo titles - good suggestion. On the area/route pages, the route navigation is actually no lower than it used to be, at least on pages that had an advertisement (which is all of CO, and about 25% of the rest of the world). Tony, I believe the rearranged links (nothing was removed) make more sense where they are now. The left column is now purely navigation, and area information is all contained together in the main box on the top right.

disagree.. It goes 3 times that far down the page before the route start. Should put it in a different location. you're screwing up the best part of this site

See above. Bug. But keep that post so nick sees it!

That rocks!

dameeser wrote:Maybe you can add an option to minimize the ads.

+1

The bug should now be fixed and you should NOT see multiple ads like you do in the screenshot above (you may need to refresh before it's fixed for you).

The technical details: some of your browsers were caching our CSS file which controlled how things are laid out. I added code that forces the file to be refreshed.

It would be great if one of you who saw the bug could confirm it's fixed ... I couldn't actually reproduce it on my computers.

fixed in the routes.

Ok peoples..... Did you really think we would intend to put a dozen ads on a page????

Sniff - our feelings are hurt ;)

Andy Laakmann wrote:Ok peoples..... Did you really think we would intend to put a dozen ads on a page????

Yep, now go to your room and think about what you did.