Hi all,

 

Just a quick notification to announce with great pleasure that the website of DTA-Motorsport.co.uk, http://www.dta-motorsport.co.uk, is finally up-and-running and open for business!

 

You may encounter a few bad links and/or non-functioning forms but I am still in the process of streamlining the site. We ask for your understanding and apologise for any inconvenience.

 

Coming in the next day or so will be two group buys:

 

(1) A'PEXi PowerFlow induction kits (£100 ea incl. p+p) - for 300ZX (Z32) and Pulsar/Gti-R (possibly for 200SX's as well)

 

(2) GZA Chromed Engine Parts - i.e., chrome speedo rings and sets of covers (various prices - see group buy info when posted) (covers will fit most Nissan applications)

 

The specifics will be posted in our trader section.

 

The site also includes the latest prices for the entire product range and there have been some changes (= savings :)) in respect to the price sheet listed in the initial post in the trader section. I will update that as soon as possible.

 

I hope you will find our products of interest and we look forward to doing business with you.

 

Kind regards,

It throws up errors once past the splash screen...

 

Unable to find Navigation or Footer

 

FYI: I'm using a Mac Running netscape 7

 

Tim

Sorry about that Tim.

 

Don't tell me I need to make a Netscape specific version as well ... ?! Took me long enough to put the current one together. The site uses frames - perphaps that is the problem for Netscape. Must admit that I know nothing of Netscape ...

 

I'll investigate and see what I can do. Thanks for letting me know Tim and my apologies.

 

Regards,

The Navigation bar on the left seems to be pointing to your C: drive mate. Therefore I can't get any further than the introduction page.

Stuart,

 

Are you using Netscape as well? A load of people using MS Explorer have been able to access the site without problems so I'm starting to think it may have to do with browser type. Sorry buddy, was hoping my web design/publishing problems were over but apparently not ... Will look into it and see what I can do. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Regards,

Think you are right Danny

 

I`m on Netscape in the office and had problems just as described

 

At home I`m in IE6 and have had no probs at all

 

 

Best of luck

 

 

Steve

nope I'm on I.E6.

 

Let me try here ar work :eek:

Oh bugger ... here we go again with the Microsoft vs Netscape saga ... a bit like the auto vs manual story! :)

 

Have done some research and it would apear that:

 

(1) Netscape can not interpret certain inline style elements as generated by MS FrontPage

 

-- and --

 

(2) I have set the frames borders to zero (0) which Netscape doesn't like either.

 

Looks like I'll have to redo the website for Netscape. So for all you Netscape users out there, bear with me - I'll get it sorted in a while. In the meantime I do apologise for the inconvenience.

 

Regards,

Danny, Bill Gates is the spawn of the devil. :rofl:

 

I've used about 6 of the low end shareware html coders (Amaya, 1st Page 2000, Bulletproof, Topstyle, AceHTML etc) and even Notepad.

 

I just converted to Dreamweaver and while it isn't perfect, it's streets ahead of anything I've tried so far. You can design pages in design view and still get underneath to tweak the code if you want.

 

It validates your html - that is, checks it works and complies with standards unlike that bog-awful front page.

 

Best of all, it includes an ftp client so once you've got your site working on your local PC, just do "synchronise" and lo and behold there you are. Robert is the relative of your choice.

 

I've got a free 30 day trial on a CD (net mag issue 112) or they might have one you can download directly.

 

The downside is that if you get hooked on it, it's about £300 to buy. But if it saves you one day's work wrestling with your site.....

 

If you want to validate pages directly, you can do so at http://validator.w3.org/

 

Cheers - Gio

I can't use the navigation bar to the left:confused: all I get is the action cancelled page where the nav bar should be. Tried netscape, mozilla and MS explorer......BUGGER.....:cry:

A couple of points, Danny.

 

I am not a proper web designer so just a personal opinion.

 

I don't like sites which ask me to click on a logo to enter a site. I just typed the url in my browser (or clicked on a link from elsewhere) so of course I wanted to visit the damn site - why are you asking me to click again? Just show me the site...

 

(And to all you clever people who put a nice big flash movie in the way of me visiting your site - just don't. It wastes my time and wastes my bandwidth.)

 

2nd - frames are one way of laying out a site but they make passing links to other people impossible. They also work against the robots which index sites for search engines.

 

eg can you give me a link to your contact details page? You can either give me http://www.dta-motorsport.co.uk/index2.htm and then you have to tell me to click on a specific menu item.

 

Or you can give me http://www.dta-motorsport.co.uk/contact.htm which doesn't have the menu on the left.

 

I found this out the hard way with my site which I haven't got round to re-doing yet.

 

To contrast, have a look at http://www.beyondsl.net which was done with Dreamweaver, has a menu area at the left and has unique urls for each page.

 

HTH - Gio

Actually, I should also say that I really like the DTA logo and the general clean, uncluttered, modern look of the site.

 

It's nice and stylish. IMHO.

 

Cheers - Gio