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Site Design

For your convenience I've redesigned this site to load very quickly at the expense of flashier elements. As this is primarily a content based site that shouldn't be a problem for most. I have used some JavaScript to provide a little spice, and reduce clutter. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's preferences.

Sections

You'll find several distinct sections within sportfit.com. You are currently in the About This Site section. Here you'll get a good idea of what the site is all about.

Our home page is the welcome page, into which you probably surfed first. You'll find a concise statement describing the purpose of this site, and a directory to what's inside.

The tips page provides in-depth insights and specific training recommendations for your immediate use. Spend some time here. There is a lot of good stuff–everything from ski / snowboarding fitness to an 8-step golf lesson, waistline training secrets, and specific, tension-relieving stretches for the office athlete!

Our glossary defines and describes numerous fitness terms and concepts. Ever wonder how you determine your target training zone? It's in here.

Now, our pro shop gives you access to the Sport Fit Card line of sport specific fitness programs especially for Golf, Tennis, Skiing (& Snowboarding) and Volleyball. We also offer Virtual Personal Fitness Training programs, and sportfit.com T-shirts! Email us for more info. Order right away, online or by phone 1-800-479-0398.

As part of our pro shop, the Sport Fit Cards pages give details and an overview of each program's specifics. These cards improve your sports ability in just 4 weeks. They are well worth the small (less than $20.00 USD) investment. Order online or by phone 1-800-479-0398.

The Links section will be back soon, after a revision.

And, finally a brief background and bio on, well…me, Christopher Drozd is shown so you'll have an idea who is responsible for this site. You'll also be able to view a few clients' comments and read some mildly humorous articles in this section. Also included are…

Awards

Here are a few of the online awards this site has received.

Content

There is a lot of useful information within these pages, and it's free. Use any information you find here for your own personal programs. But, if you use this information for commercial purposes we need to discuss a useage fee.

Site Activity

Each day we receive about 3000 to 4500 hits, a whole bunch of email, and a lot of Sport Fit Card orders. Thanks for the interest. Thanks for the support.

Advertisements

I sponsor this site myself. There are no banner ads from other companies on sportfit.com. I prefer to keep the pages looking clean. Also, I'm more inetersted in your ordering Sport Fit Cards and Virtual Personal Training from sportfit.com than setting up billboards for other vendors. Thanks in advance for your orders!

History

In 1994 I created the Sport Fit Card line of sport specific workouts for Skiing, Tennis, Volleyball & Golf and decided to produce a website to support its concepts. So, I sat down with an Avanti 486/25 notebook computer and learned enough HTML to get about 5 pages up and running.

This quickly became a popular destination for athletically minded websurfers from all over the world.

By 1995, I wanted to have a professional designer create the new sportfit.com. Well, months went by and two separate designers were not able to make it a priority, so I bought a Macintosh (actually a Power Computing 604/120), and did the design myself. That version was full of self-indulgent tables, and frames, and cool little tricks with GIFs, and took about 3 months to complete, with more 20 hour days than I care to remember. It was jammed with about 50 pages of content. Surfers loved it! But, it was a pain to maintain, so I simplified it. Or, so I thought.

The next version did away with the troublesome frames, and instead used often equally troublesome–but fun– JavaScript elements and single-pixel gifs.

By this time, sportfit.com had grown to over a hundred pages and it made sense to add pulldown menus. But, too many people either didn't use JavaScript capable browsers or they turned off JavaScript in their preferences–probably because of the ubiquitous banner ads–and lots of surfers saw only parts of the site. Ultimately, I opted to keep some of the JavaScript pulldown menus in for site neatness, and figured that in a short while everyone would at least be using Netscape 3.01!

I've restricted the JavaScript to items which add personality to the site without sacrificing usability. So enable JavaScript. Here anyway, it's safe. Finally, I did away with the single-pixel gifs after realizing that different browsers and different computers formatted my pages quite arbitrarily.

Now, after laboring over the design aspect of this site for far, far too long and spending way too much on a new G3 / 300 system (summer '98) I've decided to go as low tech as possible, with the exception of adding a little style sheet flair. The reason? This crisp, uncluttered style sheet enhanced design doesn't distract you from the content–except when viewed in MS Internet Explorer, so I'm pulling out the style sheets, for now (December 1999). I still recommend Netscape, but will henceforth take IE into account in future revisions

As of February, 2000 we've added a secure shopping cart to sportfit.com since the JavaScript on our previous order form was no longer compatible with MSIE and in preparation for bringing several new products on board. Use your favorite credit card and order your fitness products quickly and simply, right here online!

Since sportfit.com has expanded to its present size, and because I do the HTML by hand, I've been looking for a way to manage it all. Fortunately I met Matt Neuberg who's turned me on to Frontier which as I'm learning makes additions and global revisions a snap. There is a bit of a learning curve (understatement), but it's all coming together. I hope you enjoy your surf at sportfit.com.

Well, it's late 2003 and this site has remained in it's present form (mnostly) for several years. Since there are so many links to the articles and tips that would be broken by making significant changes, I won't. Email from the site has become problematic as the spiders on the web have collected email addresses from the various pages and have filled my inbox with inconceiveable amounts of SPAM. The solution – I hope – is to remove the "mailto" tag and drop in an email gif which surfers can type into their mail application if they wanted to contact me.

Also, a couple of years ago I received an email from an MSNBC correspondeant, Michael Sullivan (as I remember) informing me of a security hole in the shopping cart software I'd installed on this site. Within the hour hundreds of fraudulent orders began to flow from bogus email addresses. I shut down the e-commerce and phoned the FBI. I found the notice and the attack on the site a little too coincidental. Sport Fit Cards, heartrate monitors, etc. are still available with just a phone call – 310 479 0398.

Last update: September, 2003.