New site going live - preview

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New site going live - preview

Postby pete » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:42 am

Should go live tomorrow but the doors are now open.

http://www.simviation.com/1/front-page


There will be things soon (such as the helps sections, etc ) added but the main structure of the site is ready .....
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby patchz » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:30 pm

Looks good Pete, :) except for the Google ad covering up our banner.

Is it my imagination, or do the thumbnails for the downloads look better?
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby alrot » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:38 pm

except for the Google ad covering up our banner.


I agree ,But that's perhaps the main contribution to keep the site  running, am I right?

Looks great, I still don't know what is all that thing of  "Live"  :-/ 
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby SeanTK » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:48 pm

Looks great!

I also noticed that the helicopter on the right side of the banner is from one of my screenshots that I posted.
That was a surprise!
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby pete » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:05 pm

Looks great!

I also noticed that the helicopter on the right side of the banner is from one of my screenshots that I posted.
That was a surprise!
:)

;D

The graphics guy asked me for some images to work with so I went though the screenshot forums backup images -- picked out a few that stood out in the 100 I looked at .... no idea who they wwere by as they were just a series of images in the 'yabbuploads' folder ... thanks for the great image! :)

except for the Google ad covering up our banner.


replace the word 'banner' with 'top header' & you are more on the mark ....  ;)
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby Steve M » Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:53 pm

It's a nice clean look. I like the addition of latest forum posts.
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby B-Valvs » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:43 pm

I got to test-drive the site, and I will say it is very nice. I also liked the latest forum posts section. And I thought the same thing about the ad, but I don't think there's much you can do about it. ::)

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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby Flying Trucker » Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:02 am

Goodly morning... :)

It looks good....a change is as good as a rest they say... ;)

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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby ApplePie » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:25 am

Excellent job Pete, very aesthetically pleasing. :)
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby pete » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:48 am

The graphics took 2 days to complete -- the engine/system has been 1000 hours and being developed since April. ....  :)

We are now working on the server OS to maximise the database as things are running slow ---- you can't have any major work launched without some bugs being thrown up .....  8-)
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby Tango_Romeo » Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:22 am

Looking really good, Pete!   Keep on keepin' on.  :)
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby JBaymore » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:59 am

[quote] I still don't know what is all that thing of
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby alrot » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:10 am

[quote][quote] I still don't know what is all that thing of
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby pete » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:51 pm

Put on hold.
Major bug found and programmer cannot investigate for now. ..

So we are still in beta mode ..
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Re: New site going live - preview

Postby SeanTK » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:28 pm

Pete, will the forums be getting "the treatment" too, or are you maintaining the present style/format?
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