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Welcome Forum The Drag Strip Road Apples Website

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  • #1585
    circletrack
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    I finally got the website up and running again and I was playing with it tonight… Now, I’m NOT finished, but looking for advice from some that have created/maintained websites before. What would you do different, what do you like? Please be nice, thanks!

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  • #21311
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    http://www.roadapples.org in case anyone was wondering.

    Circletrack I like the design of the site – it is easy to navigate and use. One thing every site needs is reciprical links. Would you consider maybe adding a link to Wisconsin Collector Car on the left or somewhere? This would provide a service to your members by linking to our car show calendar, for shows besides the road apples shows. Also we would be happy to add you here, and help each of us out with traffic and page ranking on google.

    Here are a couple things I found. One thing is I noticed your roadapple logo:
    [spoiler:ec94e0145f]image002.gif[/spoiler:ec94e0145f]
    is a different image on different pages, and thus has to load more than once. Link all instances of this image on your pages to the same gif, this will save on bandwidth and load times. Also I like the photosite program used to display the members images, but it doesn’t provide a link back to the rest of your site. You can use a number of freeware programs for your photo gallery that you can keep right on your site and anyone can upload photos. The one we use here is Coppermine Photo Gallery. Another one is Gallery.

    #21312
    circletrack
    Participant

    Okay, I made a couple changes. Still working on it though. I did link your website! Thanks for your advice!

    #21313
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    Looks good! I do like the animated logo if you can use that. I’ll take a closer look tomorrow

    #21314
    circletrack
    Participant

    For some reason I can’t get the apple to animate now, does it have to be a specific size?

    #21315
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    No, the animation has to do with the filetype. Files that are .jpg cannot be animated, however .gifs can. That is what you must save it as. It should then animate. Also be sure to open the original file, not the one that is on there now.

    I added your site to our Local Resources Section:
    http://www.home.wiscollectorcar.com/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,17/Itemid,23/

    #21316
    GTO Man
    Moderator

    I think the site looks good. I like the look of the Our Members page. These sites are always like a work in progress. Looks good.

    #21317
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    Yes it looks very good! Great work Circletrack!

    #21318
    circletrack
    Participant

    Made some more changes… Anything I should do different?

    #21319
    GTO Man
    Moderator

    The site looks good. All the linkages on the pages work. The only thing I might change is to reduce the amount of space at the top of the Performance page.

    #21320
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    Looks good Circletrack. Here’s one thing that I would change. Right now I’m on a computer with a 800×600 resolution. Most computers nowadays use 1024×768 but some still use the smaller one, especially people who aren’t too computer saavy. With this smaller resolution you have to scroll to the right quite a bit to see the whole site. There is a pretty easy fix for this though. In your code on your page:
    [code:1]
    <div class=Section1>

    <p> </p>

    <div align=center>

    <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=8 cellpadding=0 width=964
    style=’width:723.0pt;mso-cellspacing:6.0pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in’
    [/code:1]
    Well first off get rid of that <p> </p> , its not doing anything for you. Then under the table tag where it says “width=964”, change that to width=98% . This way it will resize the page based on your resolution and browser config, a very handy thing to do. BTW what app are you using to make these pages?

    #21321
    circletrack
    Participant

    How do I save those changes?

    I’d also like to put a counter on the front page, what do you recommend? I realize many of them have to advertise, but I really don’t want some stupid advertising that doesn’t pertain to the site unless I have to.

    #21322
    Garibaldi
    Keymaster

    Just open the html files in any text editor, change the text, save the file, and upload it again. As far as counters there are many many free ones, here’s one I would recommend:
    http://www.tinycounter.com/

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