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What website...
It's absolutely pants.
I don't have the best PC in the world but it takes all the wizardary of my employers fancy network and high performance PC's to load it and by the time it does 
lunch is nearly over!!!! (honest boss)
On a brighter note the car show stand's pretty impressive. Good to see them slating Porsche on big plasma telly's. The TVR stand was packed yesterday unlike the Porsche stand next to it. Oh and you don't need some super flash enabled glasses to look at the cars!
DC
It's absolutely pants.
I don't have the best PC in the world but it takes all the wizardary of my employers fancy network and high performance PC's to load it and by the time it does lunch is nearly over!!!! (honest boss) On a brighter note the car show stand's pretty impressive. Good to see them slating Porsche on big plasma telly's. The TVR stand was packed yesterday unlike the Porsche stand next to it. Oh and you don't need some super flash enabled glasses to look at the cars!
DC
PetrolTed said: I've met the guys who designed this site. They were given a limited budget to work with and what they've done is good.
That said, I think it would be fair to limit our criticism to the choice of technology which is questionable given how many people are having trouble reading the site.
Sorry Ted, I don't aggree, if you are producing a commercial site as a product for a client regardless of the budget, there are no excuses for not getting the content that you do include correct. Typos, pictures in the wrong place, poor navigation and serious accessibility issues are all things that should be effectively debugged and cannot be blamed on budget. Time maybe, but not budget.
beano1197 said: Hey, hang on folks!!
We want these guys to build cars.....
...not mess around on computersall day long - that's PHers prereogative!!!
If you lot can do so much better, why don't you JFDI rather than moan about it.Flasher et al want new cars next year not a 21st century website!!!
Who wants these webdesigners to build cars??? They'd probably come with a numpty-proof user interface having all features disabeled that *might* be dangerous. And they would look like the maxxed Cerb - with lots of *visible* state-of-the-art gadgets
Bodo says:Who wants these webdesigners to build cars???
hee hee. Reminds me of the Bill Gates V General Motors crack. See below
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal." Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
Some other thoughts along this line:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened
11. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grab hold of the radio antenna.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
>> Edited by Paul-wh on Saturday 26th October 22:43
yes, this one fits in here. I've read that before, it was even translated into the German. I have some additional points to add:
14.) These cars couldn't coexist with cars of other marques on the same road; however Macintoshs, Unixes, Linuxes, OS/2s etc. would.
15.) Linux cars would be free, extremly powerful, fitted with a manual gearbox, and extremly safe, if they are involved in an MS-accident.
I was sufficiently annoyed to actually eMail them: it's a nice site, but it's completely unnecessary to do it in Flash. HTML and scrpting would do the job and work in all browsers (OK, almost all).
I'm sure people will see where I'm heading with this, but does anyone know who @ TVR has any control over the web site? I could just reply to the person who answered my first eMail (via sales@), but I don't want to just get ignored and sidelinded as just someone trying to sell work. Commercial gain isn't on my list of motives.
I'm sure people will see where I'm heading with this, but does anyone know who @ TVR has any control over the web site? I could just reply to the person who answered my first eMail (via sales@), but I don't want to just get ignored and sidelinded as just someone trying to sell work. Commercial gain isn't on my list of motives.
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