cool new site!

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:32 am

http://spirecruise.freespaces.com

this is a tempory host and url

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:42 pm

nice start there, like the 'spotted' gallery..... where do you hang out to find all them?
but........
my eyes!

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

)

PhilGTi · Post by **PhilGTi** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:08 pm

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.

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:57 pm

Tahrey1043 wrote:nice start there, like the 'spotted' gallery..... where do you hang out to find all them?
but........
my eyes! 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 Â£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.

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:58 pm

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?

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:02 pm

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!

dino · Post by **dino** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:52 pm

Wouldn't load for me

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:11 pm

Nice site mate, why not post a link on www.yorkshirecruise.com? (i know its derbyshire, but its only a stones throw away!)

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:22 pm

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

TerraTag · Post by **TerraTag** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:25 pm

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

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:54 am

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

) 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)

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:20 pm

well i've faded the bg, yesterday actually, so does that make it look better? i think it does

dino · Post by **dino** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:04 pm

Couldn't access it before but it looks good now!

bigardmat · Post by **bigardmat** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:45 pm

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

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:01 am

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