The NEW retropower website is now online and up and running.

Its a bit easier to navigate than the old one, and we've updated the project sections now, plus we've put another little twitter feed in to give main page updates about the site in general.

hope you like it!!

We're trying to bring car restoration into the modern age, and give customers an online window to their projects........

also, those with nothing to hide an all that.....

Customers seem to like it so far!

Retropower linky


ahhh, now retropower rather than ratropower lol

gud joob I cun sepl reeeely wel
[Edited on 13/2/10 by NS Dev]

[Edited on 13/2/10 by NS Dev]

Damn you're near Nuneaton (no idea where it is but I do know it's far away)
I was going to ask for a job...

Ratropower?? Liked the shuvite you posted

Looks good... can I put my web design hat on and give you some constructive critique? Please dont take offence....

That scroll frame that houses all the content... interesting idea but its very very annoying.... You could improve things if you atleast double the height of it so I dont have to keep scrolling about inside the mini window. Or just let the content fill the page like a normal website.... I kinda see what you are trying to do, but I dont think it works.

If you must have an image overlayed underneath the page content it would be so much easier to read if the actual framed content was held within a solid black box, perhaps with rounded corners... You want the text to jump off the page and be readable quickly... if it takes too much effort to read, people wont bother!

Changing menus are another one of my pet hates... When you navigate from one page to the next, the menu should ALWAYS look the same across the top of the screen... (on your site the position and order changes!) otherwise the user will end up getting lost, frustrated and will leave! (can you include the same menu on every page with some PHP for example?)

You could also improve the looks of the site if you use a little Javascript for displaying the images, have clickable thumnails rather than screen filling images.... Let java give the images a nice rounded corner etc..

Just a thought

cheers, no offence taken!

re. point 1, yep, had the same issue a bit. It is only really a problem on the blog page where the centre window is condensed due to the twitter widget at the top.

Second point, not sure on that one, we've tried it on a lot of different pc's and monitors and it looks pretty easy to read to us.......

Cal (my bro who designed the site) also wasn't sure on the changing menu thing either. he's thinking about changing it, it only moves to display "home" in place of whichever page you are on, but it could just display the lot all the time...

I found it a problem on all of the pages, but it might be because I have a pretty large monitor 1690x1050.... As most people use 1024x768... it might look ok for most..

IMHO, for the menu, I would have it appear exactly the same order and location on every page and use some CSS to highlight the page you are reading so one glance at the menu on any page tells you where you are...

Points all taken on board, and website now redone.................

see what you think!

I like. Much improved. Can you get all your menu buttons on the same line though??

uh oh!!

they are on the computers we have tried it on...........................

bah! they aren't when I increase the screen res!

DOH!

sorted...