Welcome - Introduction - Salutations

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:30:30 -0800

The LifeStylze Project is currently in ALPHA stage v.4.12 The mission of Lifestylze is to showcase the trends in the action sports industry while supporting its action sports community through resources such brand news, product/event reviews, streaming media, community events, action sports directory, online store all of which pertaining to surfing, wakeboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, and freeskiing.

LifeStylze APHA 4.12 Official Release

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:30:29 -0800

Web development continues in early part of Q1 2008. Although the infrastructure for the website has been created, content has been removed to establish a clean slate for official content to be released.

Groups - A way to organize like minded users and offer an email notification. The default groups have been created by LifeStylze moderators as a method for delivering new contests and announcements specific to users of that group interest: surf, wake, skate, snow, freeski.
Community Map - our collaborative map that lets each new user add their location to the map with a custom LifeStylze marker point that is integrated with Google Maps API. You can locate other members near your surrounding area and visit their profile page for possible networking.
Newswire - A collection of industry specific public RSS feeds. This is a great way to deliver brand specific public news and events that may have not been entered is as news items through our main CMS.
Photogallery - Organized into galleries related to a theme. There is nothing too fancy here, maybe in the future we can add more function specific features such as image cropping and photo manipulation. For now we have a dope way of organizing our content into galleries including a professional industry approved section that showcases pro riders at their best.
Forums - This is truly an evolution of news/content/interaction. We have pre-formulated forums with threads related to everything related to our lifestyle from art to music, pro rider news to classifieds. Some content may reiterate content already on display in other news/event items, but the idea is to engage the topics with the community.
Industry Directory - An ever growing directory resource for our community members to get in touch with their favorite brands by displaying contact information and website address.
Pro Shop - In ordeer to give our comunity a chance to purchase the items found on our news and articles section, we have partnered with U.S. Outdoor Store based out of Portland Oregon. The backend CMS is managed by us for the display of product by department and brand criteria. The fulfillment is handled completely by usoutdoor.com - the online retail store for U.S. Outdoor Store. Our online store is packed full of top name brands in the industry including Burton Snowboards, Billabong, Dakine, Quiksilver, Roxy, Hyperlite, Liquid Force, DC, Holden and more.
LTD. Shop - As a special thank you to our growing community - and the true unique selling point to this venture project - is the LTD. shop. Without all the fluff, this is a swag shop where users can purchase specific branded products from our store using a points obtained by contributing content to our website. Brands have already been contributing limited edition product that can only be purchased through out LTD. Shop. More on this feature to come. We look forward to the progress of the LifeStylze project and will fill you in as the project develops. New photographs have been acquired for preliminary Surfing, Snowboarding, Freeskiing and Wakeboarding sections - each with appropriate photo credits appended. We are still developing the gallery section