A few weeks ago we launched the first phase our newly redesigned www.cathe.com website which is being released in four phases. Last night we released phase two. Things went pretty smoothly, but we do have some minor issues with some links not working and some design templates not acting as they should; i.e., “Video Tab” should show four videos per row, but currently only shows two. Today we will be working to cleanup as many of these issues as possible.
In phase two we changed the engine of Cathe.com and started to use what is known as “WordPress” to run our site. We feel this will vastly improve the structure, navigation and layout of our site, but most importantly will allow us to easily start adding a lot more content to cathe.com. Content for www.cathe.com is our next big push and focus for our site.
A big difference you will now notice is our Blog has been moved from Google’s Blogger to our own server and will from now on be powered by WordPress and have a different layout and structure. WordPress is a much cleaner and better organized platform than Blogger and it will now be very easy for you to quickly find, search or comment on any post in our Blog. We will also spend more time writing fitness articles for our Blog, not just company updates and behind the scenes information.
When you now hover your mouse over the “Blog” in our top menu bar you will see a dropdown list. If you click “Blog”, our blog will launch with all posts in chronological order just as it did before. However, now you can also select a category from our blog in the drop down list. This will make finding articles and pictures a lot easier for you. For example, say you wanted to find an article or a picture from STS mesocycle #3. Instead of having to search through every month until you found the article or picture you were looking for you simply hover your mouse over “Blog” and then hover your mouse over STS and then select “Mesocycle #3”. Only the pictures and articles for mesocycle #3 will now show. We also have an internal “Search” that can make finding information on our site a snap.
Our new Blog has also been designed for speed and for the future. Now when you go to the “Blog” you will notice that you only see some text and no pictures on the first page. To see the full article and the associated picture you need to click on the “Continue Reading” link. This style makes it much quicker for you to find the article you are looking for and allows us to show larger and better quality pictures without hurting performance. This method also makes it much easier and quicker for the ever growing market of people browsing our site on their phone.
We have also added a list of our “Top 5 Selling” DVDs to our home page. This list will constantly be updated so that you can always see what are our current top selling DVDs are. Presale DVDs are not included in this list.
That’s it for now, we hope you enjoy the new site and please let us know of any problems you see.
