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Hey all,
I built a site for my brother-in-law's car to show his restoration progress of his car. What do you think?
http://www.67chevelle.ca
P.S. I don't know if this is allowed in the forum rules, please delete if this isn't acceptable.
I built a site for my brother-in-law's car to show his restoration progress of his car. What do you think?
http://www.67chevelle.ca
P.S. I don't know if this is allowed in the forum rules, please delete if this isn't acceptable.
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An opinion is like an F250, everyone's got one, mine just isn't very nice but you asked for it...
What's the main point of a restoration site? What do people want to see? Pictures. So pictures should be the first thing you see.
The top banner looks great. What I don't like are the boxes; the Main Menu, Login Form, Polls, and Statistics boxes make the page look cluttered. You could put a menu bar just under the banner and going across the page (horizontally), that would free up a lot of space for what I want to see: pictures. If I want to see statistics, I can click on it in the menu bar, and in my case I don't, so I won't have to look at it de-facto.
So the main "menu" bar would have "home login news links contact polls statistics" on it. I don't know if you really need a login, polls or statistics function. Maybe you can also have menu bar item for a parts' list you used, write-up on what the history of the car was, it's specs, what you did to it and what you will do to it and maybe a how-to section. Perhaps you picked up some tricks and techniques propper to this particular car.
Now for the pictures. OK, you've got some great pictures. That's the important part. I would have organized them in "headings" along the left side of the screen, in a frame, with captions like "Before Restoration", "Body", "Engine", "Frame" etc... and then I would have a full size view of the picture in the center of the page with a "First Previous Next Last" control bar under it. Under the full size view, I'd have thumbnails so I could jump around. Maybe a thumbnail view with a slide bar or "previous next" type control, I don't know. Also, put detailed captions on each of these pictures. Tell us what we are looking at and what you are doing to the car.
Hey, you asked for it!
What's the main point of a restoration site? What do people want to see? Pictures. So pictures should be the first thing you see.
The top banner looks great. What I don't like are the boxes; the Main Menu, Login Form, Polls, and Statistics boxes make the page look cluttered. You could put a menu bar just under the banner and going across the page (horizontally), that would free up a lot of space for what I want to see: pictures. If I want to see statistics, I can click on it in the menu bar, and in my case I don't, so I won't have to look at it de-facto.
So the main "menu" bar would have "home login news links contact polls statistics" on it. I don't know if you really need a login, polls or statistics function. Maybe you can also have menu bar item for a parts' list you used, write-up on what the history of the car was, it's specs, what you did to it and what you will do to it and maybe a how-to section. Perhaps you picked up some tricks and techniques propper to this particular car.
Now for the pictures. OK, you've got some great pictures. That's the important part. I would have organized them in "headings" along the left side of the screen, in a frame, with captions like "Before Restoration", "Body", "Engine", "Frame" etc... and then I would have a full size view of the picture in the center of the page with a "First Previous Next Last" control bar under it. Under the full size view, I'd have thumbnails so I could jump around. Maybe a thumbnail view with a slide bar or "previous next" type control, I don't know. Also, put detailed captions on each of these pictures. Tell us what we are looking at and what you are doing to the car.
Hey, you asked for it!
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There's a lot of "between" pics missing I guess
The car deteriorated quite a bit over the years.... the body was always a "nice on the outside" sort of thing... had a lot of bondo etc in it....
He wants to do the car good and proper now.... going to be a project for a couple of years, but that's cool by him!
And n578md... thanks for the criticism..... that's what I was looking for
The car deteriorated quite a bit over the years.... the body was always a "nice on the outside" sort of thing... had a lot of bondo etc in it....
He wants to do the car good and proper now.... going to be a project for a couple of years, but that's cool by him!
And n578md... thanks for the criticism..... that's what I was looking for
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