Before getting into the more enticing features we’ve included, I thought it best to cover off a couple of the “basics” first. Namely, text posts and media (photo and video). But, first I want to share a few icons. These are 3 of the icons that make up part our main navigation bar, something that I think is really great to use and I hope that when you get a chance to use the site you will agree. As I discuss what I’m calling “features” (maybe not the best terminology and not what we would call it internally, but still appropriate I think) I’ll include the corresponding icons until we have the full nav bar.

Text posts are simple and don’t need much explanation, but still form the basis for a large part of the community interaction. Given that there tends to be either short “status update” style text posts or longer form posts, we approached it from those two angles.

When you login you’ll find the main home page and on this page, like everywhere within the site, there is an area at the top where you can take action. By default, you’ll be ready to let the community know what you’re up to with a short text post, perhaps something important like “OMG, did you hear that Tom Cruise crashed his Desmo?!”. If you’ve got more to share, hopefully not about Tom Cruise, then a longer post is in order and these posts take on a form similar to a blog or forum post with the ability to add a title and a body. The long form posts can also contain other elements too, not just text, so the skies pretty much the limit for what you decide to use them for.

What would a motorcycle site be without photos and videos of bikes? I don’t ever want to find out. We’ve got the obligatory photo upload capabilities and while we have explored providing video uploading as well, we are holding off on that one for the time being, but we think everyone will be happy enough with the video embedding tool we’re including instead.

The photo upload process is, like you’ll come to expect from the whole site, thoughtfully designed to be quick and simple to get done what you want to get done. You can upload one or many photos at once, place them in specific albums and add titles / captions. The video embed process is similar, only instead of uploading from your computer you are adding a link to a video hosted on any of the popular services such as YouTube and Vimeo. Once photos or videos are added, other users can comment on them and make use of them in other posts within the site.

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