Hi guys

Minis in the gong is a club that I helped set up and run in wollongong. We have a website, but it hasn't really changed in 3 years so i thought i would refresh it.
here is the old one:

www.minisinthegong.com.au

and the new one is

http://home.exetel.com.au/minisinthegong/newSite/

Let me know what you think and weather you think we should add or change anything.

Cheers Ryan

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Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
[email protected]
www.minisinthegong.com.au

looks good.

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looks great. dont think anything needs changing to the new one. well done!

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1975 Leyland Mini: 1060cc - resto/ ex-hsc project.

Looks the goods Ryan , well done .

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May the fork be with you.

looks good,
however, I think the text inside the minis at the top of the page (Home, forum, buy & sell etc) should be all the same size..

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I really wanted to say the same but as everyone else was being so nice, i didn't want to be the first to say anything negative

Couple of things

The animated gif is a bit over the top, 300kb is rather large. Slows down the page scrolling for me considerably in IE.

Header image has a lot of jaggy edges.

In addition to the above, i think the top frame is too big. It suits the index page, but as soon as you go to other sections you're losing 30% of your screen. Even on the first page you have to scroll down to read the text and i'm running 1280x800 resolution.

Looks much better though than the original site

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Starlet Conversion:
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15484

one more thing about the colours - see if there is a way to get the forum and photo section to match with the rest of the site as you've got a black and white top frame contrasting with wordart and lots of blue. Just try and keep it simple.

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Starlet Conversion:
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15484

Thanks guys

I agree about the header being to big on the other pages.
Also the word art and the different coloured backgrounds will go, i just hadn't got to that yet.

The text in the buttons can easily be changed, so i will look at doing that. As for the gif. on the front page. Does it cause problems for everyone? Because i have fairly slow connection and it seems fine?

Keep the feedback coming.

Ryan

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Ryan Filippi
Minis In The Gong
[email protected]
www.minisinthegong.com.au

Hey Ryan
Looks good....I was happy to see of all the cars you could have chosen to feature in the rotating gif, mine made the cut

Cheers
Dan

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Feel the Noise!!

I think it looks heaps better mate.

I too have trouble scrollling through the front page (well not trouble, its just slow) I am on broadband too.

I agree with emmeline in making the letters in the Minis the same size, as the contact us writing looks a little out of place,

But other than that its a huge improvement

i would lose the frame at the top.. frames are so 1990s!!! on a 1024*768 web page the heading takes up around 25% of your screen space...

maybe try some css/rollover for the menu so you can have mouse hover effects when the icon is over the buttons..

for the gallery use some form of a .js lightbox to enlarge images from thumbnails...

make up a nice form contact page...

see here for some examples:

www.jodielouisemillinery.com.au

thats a page I made recently, tried to keep everything clean and simple. and its valid xhtml and css.

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

Looks great I reckon.....just needs more minis for sale!

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Cooper S Mk2
Cooper S Mk1
ex Cooper S Mk2, various Morris 1100s, 1300s, 1500s, Leyland Sherpa!

It's not being negative Weevel, its constructive criticism so ryan can improve on his new design

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