Hello Beautiful…
August 28th, 2009 by Tim
Right now you’re probably saying to yourself: Jesus-fucking-Christ it’s about time they get off their negligent ass and write something, anything! Well, this, everybody, is your heads up.
We didn’t get knocked off, bills are paid, dead I insist we are not. In fact, like the old Obi-Wan Kenobi, we intend only to return stronger and better. And we never left per se, but due to our over-active imaginations leading to some new and interesting ideas, we decided to enter yet another phase of theFreshScent thrusting it forward to version 4.
As with any path of evolution, we’ve decided to take tFS in a slightly new direction. We want your experience at theFreshScent to be fun and entertaining as well as inwardly stimulating. (We all try to dream ‘big’ here.)
We appreciate all the comments you’ve left over the several weeks we’ve been absent and it’s nice to know that you’re still thinking about us. Soon we’ll be back, screening the breeze once again and we hope you remain with us upon our return. Until then…
See you soon gorgeous.
- tFS Staff
tFS Gear: theFreshRepublic
June 12th, 2009 by Alex
We dropped a sneak peek of our new tee design late last week, now it’s time for a look at the full frontal (and back-al).
The goal was to play off our California roots, hence the Bear Flag design base. When originating some concepts, we started with the tried-and-true centered design and then replaced the lone star with a lone marijuana leaf. The tee looked good, but the design blends in and doesn’t have any real impact.
Impact is good, we always strive to be bigger and better, so why not make our design bigger and better? It was time to magnify, but where the hell do you put a giant flag print?
After some trial, some error and some light cursing – we settled on a left-side print location. Bear face to the front, bear ass to the back. Everything else worked out pretty smoothly.
As we speak, this limited edition run is coming out of the screen printers. We’ll be picking them up on Friday and handing them out to a lucky few at the THC Expo. Not local? No worries, whatever we keep will be available for purchase on theFreshScent.
Let us know what you think, and expect many more custom designs in the future.
theFreshScent: Halloweed ‘08
October 31st, 2008 by Tim
You all know what night it is, so tFS is taking the day easy. Besides, we’ve got some kick ass costumes to sport tonight…
Next week, expect our usual content to drop, but also it’s time to welcome tFS reviews back into the fold. We’ve got at least 5 to release, a couple strains and a couple of product reviews.
Have a safe and fun Halloween. Oh yea, be sure to avoid people dressed as sex offenders, you just never know.
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Growing Pains
September 15th, 2008 by AlexAs with any site (re)launch, there are going to be a few kinks and bugs to work out. I just want to let everyone know we’re spotting them as fast as we can and working through each one.
There was an issue with post images from tFS v2 not showing up, and that’s been fixed. Still, there are a few gaps here and there, and we can’t spot 100% of them.
If anyone sees something wrong with the site, missing images, broken links, or anything of that nature, do us a favor and get in touch at info [at] thefreshscent [dot] com. Please include the URL and as best a description of the problem as you can.
Thanks all.
Update: Looks like two of ‘The Dailys’ links weren’t working. We’ve fixed them, it was my fault anyway, and here they are for everyone to reference:
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theFreshScent v3 – Weeee’re Baaaack
September 15th, 2008 by Alex
Our entire team is both happy and relieved to say the following…
Welcome to theFreshScent v3!
It’s been a long time in the making, some might say too long, but hey… we’re not perfect.
Instead, we’ve taken the time to completely re-design, re-think and re-execute theFreshScent. From the bottom to the top, we’ve got a new editorial team that’s going to deliver the freshest news, reviews, videos and everything else on this green planet of ours.
So what’s changed after all this down time? Let’s go over it…
The Entire Damn Site
As you can tell, we’ve undergone a slight facelift. The site is now fluid, up to 1280 pixels, to accomdate for larger browsers. We’ve switched from a 2-column to a 3-column design and revamped our color scheme.
The goal was to create a site that’s got good readability, but still retains the tFS style. No animated weed .gifs around here, just clean design and plenty of stuff to keep you busy.
The Footer
Our footer now has the most commented articles on tFS, the most recent comments on tFS, and links to our social footprint – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc…
Safe For Work / Not Safe For Work
Take a look below the header, on the right hand side, and you’ll see two small-ish buttons: SFW and NSFW. Short for ‘Safe For Work’ and ‘Not Safe For Work’ – this feature removes all the post images from the main column of the site.
Listen, we know there are plenty of people not cool with the contents of this site, especially bosses, but this is our way of getting you past the PC filter. Switch to ‘SFW’ whenever you need to fly below the radar. This feature remembers your setting from page to page, so don’t worry about it browsing around.
The Dailys
This one’s simple, but still fun. Each and every day we’ll put up a fresh set of links for you to check out; one to an article, one to a picture and one to a video.
We plan on making it a good mix… sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking, but always interesting.
tFS Quarterly
This is a new experiment of ours. There is plenty of stuff we just can’t get onto the site – whether it’s more subjective pieces, content with unique styling, behind-the-scenes stories or even special deals.
So, we’ve decided to create a quarterly PDF magazine. This will be an outlet for tFS staff to create articles and other types of content that don’t quite fit into the blog mold.
Want to check out the first issue? Sign up on your right and we’ll send it as soon as it’s finished.
Collapsable 2nd Column
Don’t want to see The Dailys? Already signed up for the tFS Quarterly? All good.
Click the arrow next to the title of each module in the 2nd column and it collapses. This brings the content up that you want to see and removes the items you might be bored of.
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re going for a trend, choice for our readers.
Special Features
Right now, our main special feature is theFreshForums. Our other new experiment – a lightweight approach to improving the way our readers can interact with each other (and us).
No more being stuck to the comments on this site. Now, you can take conversations over to theFreshForums, or start totally new ones. Who knows. It’s not a revolutionary feature, but it’s part of our natural progression from being a one-trick pony to creating the online community for intelligent smokers everywhere.
There isn’t much over there just yet, but that part falls on your shoulders, so get busy.
We like Twitter. It’s 140 characters of goodness. It’s also a way for us to post links, comments or other bite-sized pieces of information that don’t quite make it onto the main site.
Check out our module to the right and you’ll always see our tweet stream. Or, go to our twitter page and add us as a friend. We don’t do any spammy bullshit, so no worries on that front.
The Rest…
A lot of the other changes have happened where you can’t see them… behind the scenes. We’ve got a whole new, and bigger, team of writers and we plan on pumping out much, much more content.
This is still a work in progress for us, but we’re ridiculously excited to finally re-launch the site. It’s been a long journey, and everyone here is looking forward to making this place the freshest site on the internet.
Questions, insights, comments or marriage proposals, let us know what you think and we’ll keep improving this thing.
See you on the green side…
Update: We are aware that some images from previous posts appear to be missing. It will be taken care of soon.
Want to Contribute to theFreshScent?
February 20th, 2007 by AlexThere’s so much being done, written and said in the Counter-Culture community that we need help bringing it all to the forefront.
If you read this site consistently, then our high standards and complete writing style should be apparent. We’re looking for someone to bring their own individual talents to our team and increase theFreshScent’s consistent rise in readership. Being a steady contributor is important to us – at least 1 post per week day – and you must have solid writing skills.
This gig is compensated, but it all depends on your level of commitment.
If working for theFreshScent is something that might interest you – send use some examples of your writing, a little something about you and why you want to write for this website. To be considered, send all materials to this address: ccblogsla[at]gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you.
Down For the Day
February 6th, 2007 by AlexWe should have this all figured out by tonight and be back tomorrow morning with some fresh content.
Welcome our New Staff Editor – Ryan
January 30th, 2007 by AlexOne of the driving forces behind this important shift is a guy named Ryan. He’s what I like to call a ‘ganja guru’ and he has now been invited to join theFreshScent team.
So, I’m proud to introduce Ryan as our new staff editor. He will be focusing mainly on medical marijuana reviews and occasionally throwing his two cents in on product reviews too.
He can be contacted by writing to ryan[at]thefreshscent.com or by using our main contact page.
Welcome to the team Ryan!
