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[ステージア]

Gotta say the model info table looks rather familiar. I seem to remember contributing it in Wikipedia.

Glad somebody found a use for it. I took a lot more time on the Series 2 table though.

The whole thing is shaping up well. Kudos to you, Luke

SERIES_II.doc

[Stinky Rooster]

well, I had no problems loading it, and most everything looks good from here.

Top work dude.

Makes me wish I was more HTML literate..

[GoldZilla]

Luke, I can scan and email/PM you the factory stats/specs pages I've got from my HyperRev catalogues here, if you want them. It might make it a bit easier to distinguish the specs on C34 s1 and s2, and the M35.

[ant0ny]

Love the idea.

One thing I tried to get with the AstraMk2 forum, where I have my Opel Kadett race car... is to make sections where the info is entered by the submitter but not commented on in an open forum.

I find it hugely frustrating that info is formed into DIY sections on forums... but in the end you have to dig 20 pages deep to find the info.

I think if someone goes to the trouble to formulate a DIY info section then allow him to present it and keep it closed to comments... but allowing people to PM extra info or suggestions.

This will allow people to search and find info easier and if done right will be a first.. I have not seen a site yet that has good controle over the info presentation that makes it easy to find amungst all the crap and comments.

Just a thought.

Antony

Edited April 15, 2008 by ant0ny

[munchstagea]

Problem with that Luke is if all you want is accolades..... well you will never find out how it can be better!

Thanks John,

I should have said "Constructive criticism welcome" I know this forum is mature enough to provide that, so if anyone has something to add please offer it up! I am definitely not in this for the accolades...

Conservative Criticism.....

The site seems VERY SLOW to load, and you have mis-spelled aspirated.

The speed I can only attribute to the cheap hosting, the header image is 36kb so it's not huge. I might switch to another host when the site is complete and has some Ad Words on there to cover the cost.

Designers are bad spellers (well I am) so please feel free to proof read!

Love the table idea for the specs very easy to see. It would be better if the "proper" model code was in there though, ie 20X, 20G, 25TXFour etc. It's a little misleading as is.

Yeah, need to get this spot on and have been offered some good resources already, I think we will get this right.

Keep up the work..... remember photos need to be small for quick loading. The header seemed to take forever!! (actually about 3 mins). I am using firefox, windows XP, and ADSL.

For sure, again I think your connection to the host was less than ideal, the fact that others didn't see the same issue seems to back that up too.

Can't wait to see the S2 Stuff. I have some spreadsheets of the S2 model specs and options.

Happy to email them if you want.

That would be great, I really only want "complete" info if possible, otherwise it will take me too long to get it all correct...

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happy to contribute what i can, photos etc. gonna have a forum?

Thanks Ryan,

As mentioned I think the forum is covered here and I don't see any need to duplicate or dilute what is working well here. Links to some other forums could be a good inclusion though, I know there is a UK based site that has a Stagea forum section - although much smaller than SAU's

Image gallery could be great, probably just looking at 3 shots per car to keep things under control for a start. Front 3/4, Rear 3/4 and then any interesting aspect you might light to display.

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Gotta say the model info table looks rather familiar. I seem to remember contributing it in Wikipedia.

Glad somebody found a use for it. I took a lot more time on the Series 2 table though.

The whole thing is shaping up well. Kudos to you, Luke

SERIES_II.doc

Thanks ステージ,

You are spot on! Thanks for the SII info, I'll have a look at that.

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Luke, I can scan and email/PM you the factory stats/specs pages I've got from my HyperRev catalogues here, if you want them. It might make it a bit easier to distinguish the specs on C34 s1 and s2, and the M35.

That would be great thanks Nick,

A concise and consistent set of model specs would be perfect, from what I have found, comparing specs is a little tricky as they are often formatted differently and can become a little confusing.

Love the idea.

One thing I tried to get with the AstraMk2 forum, where I have my Opel Kadett race car... is to make sections where the info is entered by the submitter but not commented on in an open forum...

Antony

This was definitely one of the original objectives of the site,

Getting the DIY's organised and cleaned up, I will need the original authors permission to use those posted on SAU in any form, so if anyone wants to give me permission and possible clean up their DIY, with any of the extra contributions that may have been added in the thread that would be cool?

Some of these DIY's are a little organic and continue to develop with experience and further investigation but it would be good to include the simpler and more defined articles.

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Thanks for all of the input so far, looking forward to progressing with the site.

Email content here: munchdesign.luke@gmail(dot)com

Cheers

Luke

Edited April 15, 2008 by munchstagea

[funkymonkey]

if you guys can organise content on nissanstagea.com using a CMS system of some sort, I might be able to tie it in with stageasaustralia.com as a feed, and have the SAU subsection as the forum on the site, so from the outside it looks like a dedicated site, but in reality its composed of smaller parts from other sites.

[munchstagea]

Nice Idea Shan,

I am a designer and not a programmer, do you have any suggestions for a simple, free, CMS solution? Also one that would work the way you need it too?

Cheers

Luke

[R338OY]

You've got my support if you need to generate content/research/articles. PM me if you need something written fast.

-Omar

[funkymonkey]

Nice Idea Shan,

I am a designer and not a programmer, do you have any suggestions for a simple, free, CMS solution? Also one that would work the way you need it too?

Cheers

Luke

atm the hot free CMS is Joomla... people are migrating from mambo to it. integrating joomla shouldn't be an issue, its what I do at work with our own in house CMS software.

[GoldZilla]

Luke, I should be able to scan those pics of the Spec sheets in the next few days, what format(s) would you like me to send them to you in?

BTW, see the link in the bottom of Shan's signature? I suggest everyone go and buy a HyperRev catalogue from him - even though I can't read Japanese, I've found it useflu for seeing what's available out there, and scanning it has given me a few good ideas.

[munchstagea]

Thanks Shan, sounds familiar, I will have a look at it.

Nick, Jpeg would be fine for the scans, I'll just be pulling the info so as long as it is legible that should do the trick.

Cheers

Luke

[funkymonkey]

Nick, I've been thinking of translating the stuff in the HyperRev mags for ages... just never got the time... one of these days I'll put it into electronic form.