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cool new site!

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:32 am
by bigardmat
:shock:

http://spirecruise.freespaces.com

this is a tempory host and url

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:42 pm
by Tahrey1043
nice start there, like the 'spotted' gallery..... where do you hang out to find all them?
but........
my eyes! :D think you need to ease off the colour scheme just a little bit, push it away from the lurid end just a bit. red black and blue work well on a car (like your upholstery) but not a PC screen. (not sure if i'd be able to read the links if i had an old tube type rather than this LCD ;))

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:08 pm
by PhilGTi
Not bad at all, colours are a bit in your face! If you need any help with graphics or the code gimme a pm anytime... ;)

Phill.

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:57 pm
by bigardmat
Tahrey1043 wrote:nice start there, like the 'spotted' gallery..... where do you hang out to find all them?
but........
my eyes! :D think you need to ease off the colour scheme just a little bit, push it away from the lurid end just a bit. red black and blue work well on a car (like your upholstery) but not a PC screen. (not sure if i'd be able to read the links if i had an old tube type rather than this LCD ;))
where do i hang out? well this is gonna be a strange answer.

I live in Chesterfield, but as the 'Cruise Spots' review states its a little w**k so don't really associate with those much. But there was a t ime when started goin donw mansfield everynight and got talking to them. then i heard about Oakerthore! Need I say more. you seriously should get there. about 6-8 week ago I missed a night and apparantly there were two cars with almost £1/4m each! f**k know what they were. I thought someone said a Ferrari and a TVR, but surely TVR aren't worth that much.

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:58 pm
by bigardmat
polosilver wrote:Not bad at all, colours are a bit in your face! If you need any help with graphics or the code gimme a pm anytime... ;)

Phill.
hows about if a just faded the BG a little then, whould that make it better?

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:02 pm
by bigardmat
FAO: PoloSilver

do you know what would be the reason for none of the pictures being displayed in the Winamp Section? every picture there dosn't appear, as with other odd ones about the site! they work perfectly fine on my PC!

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:52 pm
by dino
Wouldn't load for me :(

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:11 pm
by Mac
Nice site mate, why not post a link on www.yorkshirecruise.com? (i know its derbyshire, but its only a stones throw away!)

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:22 pm
by bigardmat
well, i'm not wanting it to be just a 'cruise site' i want people to email me pics of their cars to show off on there, you know like cardomain

oh and i may start selling merchendise if it takes off well - so register all, register

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:25 pm
by TerraTag
:|
Sorry to be honest, its s**t. Obviously a first attempt at a website and I guess everyone has to start somewhere, but selling merchandise?! LOL!
If you are serious about making a website, have a look at PHP, stuff like Nuke is good

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:54 am
by Tahrey1043
not sure on the picture front, doesnt look like they've uploaded properly is the most i can determine

as for the colours, its best not to go too wild with the scheme, at least not where you want to put pictures / text / links. crazy borders are fine, but its hard to read stuff written on a mad background, or concentrate on the images. Black on red isn't bad, but could be better; blue on red is pretty hard. Again i'm no design god myself (my first website was all canary yellow :D) so just making it a little darker and turning the text white would probably do the job... so long as it doesnt then look brown, because im sure thats not the effect you wanted!

pastel colours such as you see on this board usually work quite well. If it comes down to stark black or white, then black is better (less eyestrain, text stands out more, particularly colours) ... says he, having most of his website material as black-on-white (hey, its the default, and ive long forgotten how to change it)

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:20 pm
by bigardmat
well i've faded the bg, yesterday actually, so does that make it look better? i think it does :D

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:04 pm
by dino
Couldn't access it before but it looks good now!

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:45 pm
by bigardmat
cheers.

ermmm... well, registrations are welcome :) and please send me pics of your cars (go to 'pimp rides' then 'submit a ride' all the details are there

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:01 am
by Tahrey1043
looking better, more readable, still think going along the "slightly darker and white text / lighter coloured links" route would have been more so, but hey ....... your website :)