Soxtalk Front Page

When Soxtalk.com first launched, it was the goal for the site to be the premiere message board of SoxNet.net (the news portion of Soxtalk). SoxNet.net eventually closed down and since than Soxtalk has stood out on its own becoming one of the most powerful independent major league fan sites on the net.

 

With all the new members, Soxtalk has finally taken its first step towards becoming a one stop place for all things White Sox. From the message board that you've all come to love to our new news page which has RSS feeds from almost all of the major publications that are automatically updated with the latest news stories.

 

This front page will also be the sister news site of FutureSox.com and will carry FutureSox's news stories as well as original Soxtalk content. The goal is to be able to provide fans the ability to access major news stories at one spot (via ESPN, The Trib, The Suntimes) and you can also check out stories from Cheat's blog (the stories take you to what is the best White Sox blog on the net).

 

In the near future we will have an excel page detailing the financial and contractual status of White Sox players and we will also have information about the Cell, Tuscon Electric Park, and potential places to visit around the park.

 

We hope that in the near future the main page will become just a part of your daily navigation as the forums have came over the years.

 

So please, check out the new front page and leave feedback here. If there are features not on there that you'd like to see, please tell us as we will do our best to make this place a really good resource center for Sox news.

 

And I would just like to say thanks for all those that visit the site and make this place what it is.

 

Also wanted to note that we'll have a new piece pretty much every day this week detailing certain position battles and we'll continue to update the readers with our opinion of whose leading certain position battles.

 

Enjoy

Very awesome Jason.

amazing. well done.

Very nice.

Edited February 26, 200620 yr by Kalapse

Holy crap that looks nice. Good job

very cool.

If we can get enough people / enough participation to keep that thing up to date, it would really be an amazing place.

 

I hope for the best

very nice

That looks great Jason. So is that going to be the site we're directed to when we go to "soxtalk.com"? I'm assuming so, but when I just typed it in again I still came directly to the forums.

That looks great Jason. So is that going to be the site we're directed to when we go to "soxtalk.com"? I'm assuming so, but when I just typed it in again I still came directly to the forums.

Most likely yes...although I own soxtalk.net so I may just point one to the forums and one to the site so people can directly link to each.

Very nice work. For not being paid to do this, you're committment to the site is outstanding.

 

Great Job

Very nice work.  For not being paid to do this, you're committment to the site is outstanding.

 

Great Job

 

What he said.

So, I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing here. The whole site looks exactly the same here on my PC. What am I missing?

So, I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing here.  The whole site looks exactly the same here on my PC.  What am I missing?

 

Did you click on the link at the top of the 1st post?

Did you click on the link at the top of the 1st post?

Ah, there it is.

Yes, you will go straight to the new site from www.soxtalk.com when we switch it all over. That will happen sometime later today. I'm Mr. Insomniac tonight so I thought I'd pop on here and see what was happening.

 

We will be making some other changes/announcements soon hopefully... so stay tuned. Thanks everyone for their support!

 

Kap

Hopefully it'll sorta be like the old Soxnet days, and hopefully we can keep it active enough so that we can stay on top of things whether it's news, opinion pieces etc.

 

But this has been Jason's baby and he's done a super job on it, along with Kap and everyone else who's helped out on it.

But this has been Jason's baby and he's done a super job on it, along with Kap and everyone else who's helped out on it. 

I thought Jason's baby was his hair?

I thought Jason's baby was his hair?

Or his beard.

thats a kick ass main page.

Do I have to re-register my user name. I am trying to log in to the main page and it keeps telling me there is an error.

Similar to WSI, I'd automatically direct traffic to the main page. If you do what southsiders.net does (with a page picking options) people probably won't be willing to browse the articles. Force them to atleast physically view what's provided on the newly designed website.

Edited February 26, 200620 yr by Flash Tizzle

Do I have to re-register my user name.  I am trying to log in to the main page and it keeps telling me there is an error.

The registration is completely seperate. I'm debating for not even having it up or for leaving it up. If you do register I think you can set it up where stories get emailed to you and stuff like that. I have no idea if anyone would even be interested in that.

 

So you guys tell me cause aside from that there is no reason to register there and I don't want people to be confused cause the logins and usernames would be different. It would have been cool if I could have tied it in.

It is now set as the front page of the site. One thing I'd like to point out is that if you want to get to the message boards directly, just bookmark:

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums

 

Also note that it may take a little bit of time before you start getting the new redirect to the front page simply due to cache stuff.

 

This looks really awesome. You put a lot of hard work into this site and it really shows. I'm excited to see what the future holds here.

 

 

By the way, I updated the links so now when you click the ones that take you to the board they won't open in a new window but directly take you there.

 

We still have one more link section left that will be something like ST Favorites and I'm going to leave that up to you all. What type of links would you like up to take you to some of your favorite baseball/whitesox related pages?