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  • Opening Master - the world's largest chess database : Populus tamplate

    Posted 17 years 1 month ago
    • Hello everybody,
      this is our second web site created with Joomla and Rockettheme. Great templates, every month hard to choose from.

      Website URL : www.openingmaster.com

      Purpose : Chess portal : the world's largest chess database of openings

      Template: Rockettheme - Populus (with Joomla! 1.0.12 version)

      Additional Extensions

      1) Forum - FireBoard Forum
      2) AEC Subscription Manager with PayPal Subscription
      3) Community Builder with Captcha
      4) DocMan : download manager with access control list
      5) Glossary : Remository of chess noveltlies
      6) Joomap : Site Map
      7) Syeret Video component : Videos online from ftp or youTube
      8) SH404SEF : Best search engine friendly component

      Custom Development: removing black banner and inserted custom logo

      Other Features: n/a

      I would like to know few things as feedback. Please, it's very much appreciated.

      A) What can be improved from design point of view?
      B) What about performance, the hosting is on servers in US. Is it fast enough also in Europe?
      C) I don't know anything about the ''code'' but if you find some big errors please let me know where and I will try to fix it.
      D) Any tricks how to promote site in Googles's eyes? Tried almost everything from sitemap, google analytics, links from other sites, still not enough. When you insert ''chess database'' into Google we are not even in first 500. ;-(. We believe this is the largest chess database offered in Internet and quality games only, thus it should sell ''easy'', but how to promote it? (with limited budget)

      Many many thanks
      Alexander Horvath
      Slovakia
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  • Re: Opening Master - the world's largest chess database : Populus tamplate

    Posted 17 years 1 week ago
    • Looks nice. I too just made a site PCShare.Com using Populus template. It's a family oriented multimedia community site, has nothing to do with Chess, but we do have Chess club that meets every Wednesday. One of the user just created Chess group within PCShare.Com.

      Perhaps, we can exchange a link?
    • Currently working on: NorJah
      My failed sites:
      PC Share
      ISOT
      MultiByte
      Devil Dates
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    Re: Opening Master - the world's largest chess database : Populus tamplate

    Posted 17 years 1 week ago
    • Wow!

      Very rich content, great for chess fans like me!
      The only thing I would change in the design, is the size of pictures in the slideshow to get them aligned on the right side.
      Maybe try background a little darker (not white) but thats only my personal opinion.

      Great job!
    • Kat05 / QA Lead & Support / Germany
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  • Re: Opening Master - the world's largest chess database : Populus tamplate

    Posted 17 years 1 week ago
    • thanks Katrin. Appreciate it. You are right, the pictures with the slide show need to be aligned. need to think of the replacement. thanks for the comments.
      Alex
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