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fto2tuscan

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704 posts

259 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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What can I say - thanks to PetrolTed for putting this forum here. He has been nothing but supportive of our cause and has helped us in so many ways.

I hope we will be able to see a PistonHeads car there? What would it be...?

Is the new Sagaris planned to be available by summer 2005 - I haven't really been following the progress of it. If so - it would be an awesome PistonHeads entry, and would be invited to the front of the grid.

TimW

3,848 posts

264 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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Im sry im not getting this what is this about?? i see your website but not really catching on to it it doesnt say what it is?

fto2tuscan

Original Poster:

704 posts

259 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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Was afraid of this - i'll have to restructure it a little bit.

www.pr-photography-tour.org/concept

that should give a better idea of what this event is all about. its basically a UK cannonball run taking place in summer 2005 over one bank holiday weekend.

it's not as expensive as the gumball, it doesn't require time of work, and the machinery and people are still going to be there.

check out the documents page at www.pr-photography-tour.org/documents.asp to read all the information including concepts, funding, support info, etc etc.

I will change the site around a bit to try and make it more clear, sorry.

Will update you when it's sorted.

Steve vRS

5,238 posts

258 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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That concept reads well now. All it needs is a photo of a Skoda

Steve

fto2tuscan

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704 posts

259 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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Haha steve good to see you here - We just need to get more people on the forums and the site.

Does anybody have any good ideas on how we can make the site more accessable for people that have not heard of the event yet?

I was thinking of maybe moving the concept to the front page and having the homepage as a kind of second stop. Although I feel it's important to have the ever changing things first.

I'll put part of the concept on the homepage methinks...

and steve - cant put your pic of the skoda on - it looks like your racing in that picture, and thats not sending the right message is it

Steve vRS

5,238 posts

258 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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I have other more sedate pictures

Steve

fto2tuscan

Original Poster:

704 posts

259 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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ship it over man - but not right now because my email is fooked! lol - ship it over friday morning.

PetrolTed

34,459 posts

320 months

Thursday 18th March 2004
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fto2tuscan said:

Does anybody have any good ideas on how we can make the site more accessable for people that have not heard of the event yet?


Create some banners publicising your site and put them on your site. Then people can copy them for their own sites linking to yours.

Guy Humpage

12,730 posts

301 months

Friday 19th March 2004
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You must be doing something right, as I can't get access to your site as "too many people are currently viewing it".

Tripps

5,814 posts

289 months

Friday 19th March 2004
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Might be worth getting in touch with Auto Express, as the highest distribution weekly car mag as well as some monthlies (Top Gear, What Car etc.) to see if they'll run a column in their news sections...

fto2tuscan

Original Poster:

704 posts

259 months

Friday 19th March 2004
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Guy Humpage said:
You must be doing something right, as I can't get access to your site as "too many people are currently viewing it".


It's crazy - could never have anticipated this response, if you do get this problem just wait a few seconds and hit refresh.

I'll make sure it doesn't happen again - will see if i can fix it over the weekend.

Thanks

minimax

11,985 posts

273 months

Monday 22nd March 2004
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this looks like an absolutely brilliant idea! I've just signed up to the list and by gads I'd love to do it! and big respect to littlegearl for planning to turn up in the modified cav - can't wait to have a passenger in that!

pentoman

4,832 posts

280 months

Wednesday 21st April 2004
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Thought I might mention here - the photos in the 'gallery' have thumbnails, but the thumbnails are just the original versions resized after downloading.

With the two there it takes ~15 seconds to load.. when there's loads of images it will take ages!

Not sure what software you have, but it should be fairly easy to make some thumbnails yourself - just resize the image to something like 175x200, and save it with a slightly higher compression.

Then make the thumbnail a link to the separate full size image.

good luck!

Russ

fto2tuscan

Original Poster:

704 posts

259 months

Wednesday 21st April 2004
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budabing.

there'll be a new site coming soon - v5 (would you beleive it's barely been open for 5 weeks...the curse of being a webdesigner!)

Ther gallery system would have completley changed. But thanks for the pointout.