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Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by vsergiu »

maxmzd_ wrote: post #9
msurguy wrote: post #6

Very cool idea for the fashion bloggers. You might even sell this CMS (per client basis) or if you gather a team of web developers - become an agency working with fashion bloggers. There is some potentially good money in this.

Yeah, lots of opportunity here for sure. One thing I've been getting good feedback on from some fashion bloggers is the "shop the look" feature on each photo. Affiliate links is how many fashion bloggers monetize.

Have you used a plugin to do that or is it custom? Since you can make a plugin out of that and sell it

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by eswat »

Pretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it.

Two problems I noticed so far:

1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X)

2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by heyalexej »

Nice project. A couple things I noticed: You're leaking emails and IP addresses of commenters in your source code. There are plenty of dead pages[1] in the index which you could redirect to the home page or just disallow Google to index either via robots.txt or Google Webmaster Tools.

Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=site%3Avanillaextract.me+inurl%3At...

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by maxmzd_ »

heyalexej wrote: post #13

Nice project. A couple things I noticed: You're leaking emails and IP addresses of commenters in your source code. There are plenty of dead pages[1] in the index which you could redirect to the home page or just disallow Google to index either via robots.txt or Google Webmaster Tools. Edit: Skimming through the site I couldn't actually find a single affiliate link from the image labels. [1] https://www.google.com/#q=…

Hey, thanks for checking it out!

Where are you seeing the emails and IP addresses of the commenters?

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by maxmzd_ »

vsergiu wrote: post #11
maxmzd_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, lots of opportunity here for sure. One thing I've been getting good feedback on from some fashion bloggers is the "shop the look" feature on each photo. Affiliate links is how many fashion bloggers monetize.

Have you used a plugin to do that or is it custom? Since you can make a plugin out of that and sell it

I wrote custom Backbone.js views and subviews to handle the shop tags. But you're right, this would be an awesome WordPress plugin. The affiliate network RewardStyle has something similar, but it's lacking a few things, which is why I wrote my own.

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by maxmzd_ »

eswat wrote: post #12

Pretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it. Two problems I noticed so far: 1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X) 2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working

Thanks!

Did you happen to resize your browser? I notice that some things get janky because of the waypoints after resize. Need to work on that.

Re: Show HN: Custom CMS using Node and Backbone for my girlfriend's fashion blog

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Post by eswat »

maxmzd_ wrote: post #16
eswat wrote: post #12

Pretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it. Two problems I noticed so far: 1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X) 2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working

Thanks! Did you happen to resize your browser? I notice that some things get janky because of the waypoints after resize. Need to work on that.

I believe I was looking at it full-res at the time - 1920 x 1200 - but resized after and noticed I could see the photos fine when I resized smaller.
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