BustingPacks.com Version 2.0 is LIVE!
To all my friends and faithful visitors:
As you no doubt have noticed, BustingPacks.com has a new look to it–I call it “Version Two-Point-Oh.” Although the new site does look sexy (IMO,) the changes were not intended to be cosmetic. The main purpose of the upgrade was to offer more content on my homepage, which can now accommodate roughly 30 articles compared to only five in the previous version.
With your help I have developed a bunch of entertaining segments for BustingPacks.com over the past six months, some of the more popular ones being the “Local Card Shop Road Trip” and “Box Break Duels.” Version 2.0 enables me to organize all of these segments into one screen so that you can see what’s fresh in each category. I am striving to add fresh materials to every category EACH week, so there should be plenty of stuff to keep you distracted from work.
NOTE: Some new articles may not be featured at the top of the page. When a new article is up, I will highlight it with a gold border as you can see below.
NEED YOUR HELP!
With content. I love a good football card (or sports card) story. If any of you pull a ridiculous card or have a funny story you’d like to share, please let me know! If you have an amazing PC you would like to show off to the world, by all means share it with me! To those of you who sent me your “PC Profiles” a long time ago…now that the site has re-launched you can expect to see your PC featured shortly.
If you ever bust a box on camera or video-tape a tour of your favorite card shop, I would love to promote it on the site.
And most importantly, THANKS for your continued support of BustingPacks.com!!!
CONTEST: Give me your thoughts on the new layout below!!! One random commenter will get an AWESOME gift pack from BustingPacks!!!
I love the new organization, Sergio! Instead of having to scroll down to see everything, I can access almost every article from the home page. I also like how you highlight new articles with a gold border. i thought that was a really good and unique way of showing that the article is new. BTW, no matter how the site looks, I will continue to visit
Great job on putting this site together it has great info/previews of new product coming out and it will be a lot easier to navigate and check out all your cool articles…we (my kids and I) love watching your videos and they like the road trips you go on with all the frequent stops at LCS they always ask me if there are any on the way up to Wisconsin down Rt. 51 except it’s all cornfields. Keep up the great wprk and we will be back everyday with time permitting.
JetsFan112 & allformykids:
Thank you both SO much for your kind words! I am glad you both like the new layout and I’m especially happy that you like the “gold border” idea, JetsFan, as I just came up with that today
And I am blown away that you share my site with your family, allformykids. That really makes my day. If you ever get a chance to visit one of your own local card shops with your kids, please take some pictures or some video for me and I would gladly put it online.
Thanks so much for the wonderful comments!
looks great bro… I love comin’ to this site now, i’ll be keepin’ up to date with whats goin’ on…. keep up the great work man!!!!!!!
Site looks 10 times better and much easier to navigate. This should allow more content on the site. Just Awesome!
Hi sensei322, I like the new website layout. very nicely done and really like the gold border to highlight new articles and news. Great job and keep up the great work!
Luis
At first glance when you changed your home page I thought it was a lot of open/dead space. But after visiting your before and after screen shots in “BustingPacks.Com Version 2.0 Is LIVE!” post, I figured out I was viewing a different view. I’m using Google Chrome for my internet browser but after opening bustingpacks.com in Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers it was clear that the layouts were different. I justed wanted to share that with you. I love your site and keep up the good work.
That’s weird right after I sent my post I refreshed my Google Chrome browser and your home page was perfect. Maybe I need to save for a new laptop and wait on Gridiron Gems cards.LOL
It looks more modernized and easy. Also, you can still see whats new on the right side, I like it. And I will try to video my christmas boxes of whatever and give em to ya, hopefully some good pulls. Good job
love it bud
Thanks Sensei, I plan on taking my 1st video of them (my Kids) opening there xmas presents which is 2 boxes each of the 2010 NCAA Sweet Spot this will be the first time video taping there box breaks so we will see what they get and I’ll send it to you along with something to give away on your site just send me your address.
I definitely love the new layout! Much more aesthetically pleasing as well as accessible! And I am always praying for a big pull and if/when I get one, this will be the first place I go to show it off! Thanks for the great site Sensei!
I love the new layout. I enjoy visiting the site and it is part of the reason I got back in the hobby and with the kids!
I love the new layout. Navigation is great.
[...] Now the site has a ‘Featured’ section at the top of the homepage which displays 3 prominent posts as set by the author. The categories are also listed down the page, displaying several posts from each and one post with a custom thumbnail. It’s looking totally cool and way more organized than before. Check out the before and after shots! [...]